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At Modern Tribe we believe in code quality and strive hard to follow coding best practices wherever we can. Of course, this is easily said but can be a tricky goal to attain in practice. Today, our suite of event plugins is 10 strong and counting, containing some 35k lines[1] of PHP code–not to mention…

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According to our 2015 survey, over 10% of The Events Calendar users run a website in a language besides English. We’ve always tried to make our products useful and accessible for international users, and we recently made an exciting new change to support that goal. All of our language files are now managed with GlotPress, making…

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Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Write the Docs conference in Portland, Oregon. This unique event gathers together people who are passionate about documentation for two days of speakers, discussions, and learning. I’d heard great things about Write the Docs and was excited to attend and soak up some knowledge. I’m lucky…

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Over the past 24 hours, we’ve been receiving reports like this one from the community that WooCommerce Tickets 3.9 had a conflict with WooCommerce 2.3.x. WooCommerce 2.3 was a major update and introduced a number of changes — including restrictions on when code that adds items to the cart can run. WooCommerce 3.9.1, which we just…

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If you’re reading this, we’ve successfully launched our new website for The Events Calendar. When we launched our events plugins we never dreamed they would be so successful, or have such a profound impact on our business. We hold customer service and support as our highest ideal. Our focus over the last two years has…

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Modern Tribe has another usability test on the docket! This one is going to be different than our past sessions: instead of talking to existing customers, we’re interested exclusively in users who have not yet tried or purchased The Events Calendar/Events Calendar PRO. We won’t be testing the calendar itself – instead, we’re doing a usability…

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March Updates from Modern Tribe on Vimeo. All releases are exciting, but this month’s is particularly so. We’re really excited to finally be releasing a fully responsive solution for Events Calendar users. There’s a quick preview in the video above, and some specifics following.  You’ll be happy to know that we are shipping responsive in…

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