The new WordPress block editor is on its way, and although it won’t officially be available until WordPress 5.0 is released, the Gutenberg plugin is available for you to start testing right now. Your Step-by-Step Checklist If you haven’t started testing the new block editor yet, this step-by-step checklist will help you get your site…
Securing your site against potential hackers is super important these days. Although the rewards of investing in site security are not always obvious—if you do things right, you won’t see any visible effects because you won’t get hacked and you won’t have to spend dozens or hundreds of hours repairing the impacts of identity theft,…
Page speed has a major effect on search ranking, site abandonment, and sales conversion. Today’s web users have zero patience for sites that are slow to load—according to a survey by Akamai and SOASTA, even a 100-millisecond delay (0.1 seconds) can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. The importance of making sure your website…
Attendee check-in using QR codes is one of the easiest and fastest ways to get people through the door at your event. With our new QR scanner app for Event Tickets Plus, it’s now even easier! Before you get to downloading it (for free, of course!) from the Google Play Store or the Apple App…
In the upcoming WordPress 5.0 release, the post editor will be redesigned and rebuilt from the ground up. This new editor is called the block editor (a.k.a. Gutenberg), and it’s been no small task to ensure The Events Calendar and our other plugins are ready for it. While we’ve written about some of the challenges…
TL;DR – Facebook added even more restrictions to their API and it sucks for everyone. Back in April, Facebook made abrupt, significant changes to their API that effectively halted the ability for services like Event Aggregator to import events from Facebook into other websites. Despite getting hit with this major surprise, Facebook gave developers hope…
Broken links happen when content on your site is relocated or when URLs are changed without setting up a redirect. This leaves a trail of links that go to 404 error pages that can negatively impact your site’s search engine rankings and annoy users. The good news is that fixing—and preventing—broken links is simple and…
In a world where 53% of mobile visitors will abandon a site if it takes more than three seconds to load, you can’t get by with a site that’s slow, challenging to navigate, or full of content that’s hard to read. The more user-friendly your site is, the more your website will stand out from…
“Gutenberg” is the code name for the new block editor coming in WordPress 5.0, a major update that will fundamentally change the way content is created in WordPress. You’ll no longer put text and images into a wp-admin form and hope it looks good on the front end; you’ll instead build content visually in the…
WooCommerce is one of the most popular e-commerce platforms in the world. And you can add even more oomph to your site by enhancing it with extensions and add-ons. Out of more than 290 official extensions in their library, we’ve narrowed down the top four to help event organizers boost ticket sales. Name Your Price…
One of the biggest concerns about Gutenberg is how its arrival will affect WordPress sites’ preexisting content. Watching the Gutenberg team think through this problem and implement robust backwards compatibility has been both interesting and comforting. As we thought about our 600,000+ users of The Events Calendar, and what the process of transitioning to Gutenberg…
Episode 2 in the new Support Team webinar series is here! Need to translate your events into another language? In this webinar, we help you navigate the translation files and walk through adding or updating a translation. We also discuss integrating with popular third-party translation plugins and offer basic troubleshooting tips to help you get…
Access to the internet is a basic human right. With that in mind, we’ll show you how to make your site more accessible with our favorite tips to improve usability for all of your visitors, regardless of ability or disability. “Accessibility” is the term used to describe this project of making websites more inclusive—a big project,…
The first in a series of webinars by The Events Calendar support team to help our users get the most out of our plugins, this webinar focuses on the popular topic of making customizations to event views, using template overrides. We’ve done our best to set things up to be highly customizable. In addition to…
We have decided to change our minimum required PHP version from 5.2 to 5.6. This may sound like a big change for some, but don’t worry! We’ve got you covered, and can take you through the steps on how to make this change and quickly explain why this change is beneficial for all of us….
