Here, you’ll learn all about how you can easily collect revenue with Community Tickets. Adding a new revenue model to your WordPress site doesn’t have to be difficult, especially if you’re already using our Community Tickets plugin. Besides giving you the ability to sell tickets online through your community calendar, Community Tickets enables you to…
When it comes to making your life easier as a WordPress web developer, browser extensions and tools are low-hanging fruit. They’re generally easy to install, fairly user-friendly, and great at saving you time & headaches during the development process. Instead of trying to write an exhaustive list of all the browser tools and web developer extensions…
Event Calendar shortcodes are fantastic little pieces of code within WordPress that let you do lots of nifty things, especially with Events Calendar Pro. What Do Shortcodes Do? A shortcode is a shortcut – a way to execute code in posts, pages, and widgets on your WordPress site without having to write code directly in…
It might seem counter-intuitive to stop answering the phone when you’re a business owner that’s hungry for clients, but trust us – it helps. This piece of productivity advice is all about moving away from reactionary responses towards proactive processes for your business. How many times did your phone ring last week? Think back to last…
Stock photo libraries seem to have become the chicken pox of the WordPress world. No one actually likes using them, and in many cases, they leave blemishes on an otherwise kick-ass site design. Being stuck using stock photo libraries for your website or events calendar doesn’t have to ruin your design or come across as…
With our 4.0 release last week, we introduced two new plugins: Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus. These plugins usher in a new, improved era for the way we handle event ticketing. As a result, our legacy ticket plugins are being retired. What does this mean for you? We’re so glad you asked! Retiring Our…
We’ve got a lot to be thankful for here at Modern Tribe, so we wanted to take a moment to publicly share appreciation for our team, our users, and the WordPress community at large. It’s been a hell of a journey, and we’ve worked hard to pay things forward along the way. Giving Thanks 2015 was…
You can sell tickets to your community events right from the front end of your site with Community Tickets. This way, you never have to provide your community users with admin access. You can even create split payments so that the website admin (that’s you!) and the event organizer split the ticket sale profits. Community…
In July 2015, we announced that we were moving all our translations to GlotPress– a big step towards improving our localization and empowering our international users. Last month, we followed the WordPress community’s lead and moved the translations for our free plugin, The Events Calendar, to translate.wordpress.org. We realize that two moves in the span of a few months…
One of the most valuable contributions to any piece of software is user feedback. We love the extremely open communication in our community, and we work hard to utilize the feedback it provides. We receive over 500 comments, emails, and forum posts every week- and many of them contain feedback on the calendar. There are even more votes each week on feature requests…
Need to create a WordPress backup database before troubleshooting an issue with your site? It’s one of the first recommendations we make for the thousands of WordPress users we support each day. Nothing sucks more than realizing you can’t hit “undo” after something unexpected happens to your site. Database backups are a smart way to…
Parks & Rec may have been the first to feature “treat yo self” day, but Singles’ Day (光棍节) has them beat. Singles’ Day is a Chinese twist on Valentine’s Day. The manufactured holiday was started back in the 1990s as a day to celebrate single people. The date 11/11 was chosen for it’s literal representation…
The upcoming 4.0 release of The Events Calendar will introduce a bevy of changes. One such change is quite substantial: the splitting of our ticket-related features into a new and free, separate plugin altogether, called Event Tickets. Other changes might not seem as substantial, but still have us beaming with excitement at the thought of…
The major 4.0 release of The Events Calendar is coming soon, and we’re looking for readers like you to sign up and help us test the Beta version! There are too many awesome changes coming in the 4.0 release to list them all here. Some are still top-secret at this time — but hey, if you’re…
The release of The Events Calendar 4.0 is on the horizon, and we’ve got some juicy details to leak. What’s Our Timeline? We’re targeting a mid-November release for version 4.0. As with any major release, we’ve got quite a bit of testing and QA ahead of us before we can call it ready to ship,…