March Release: Responsive and Recurrence!
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…
Meet Andy Fragen, one of our Favorite Community Members
We like celebrating people and the good work that they do. So today, we’re celebrating Andy Fragen, a big time helper in our support forum and a friend. Andy has been active on our support forums for quite some time now, so this thank you is well overdue. If Andy has helped you out on…
What Happens When A Bug Is Reported?
Have you ever wondered what happens when a bug is reported on our support forums? How quickly we respond? How do we decide if something needs to be fixed immediately, in the next scheduled release, or somewhere down the road? We thought we’d take just a few moments and let you behind the curtain to…
Photo View Brings Your Calendar To Life
One of the best features of Events Calendar Pro is Photo View. While Week View and Month View are best at communicating the time of the event and Map View emphasizes the location of the event, Photo View does a fantastic job of emphasizing the content of the event, bringing it to life, and creating a…
Release: Version 3.4 of The Events Calendar, Events Calendar PRO + all add-ons
Happy New Year! Though it’s been January for a few weeks yet, today marks our first official round of plugin releases in 2014. We’re stoked at the release we’ve put together this month — which include updates for every plugin in our stable — and hope you find value in it too. If you’re ready,…
How Adding a Calendar to Your University Site Can Improve Campus Life
Universities are enormous organizations with many moving parts. They’ve got different departments, initiatives, colleges or schools, student organizations, and clubs. In any given month, there could be hundreds of events happening on campus. That’s a lot of information for the university community to sift through! The good news: There’s a quick way to tackle this…
Looking for Translators for The Events Calendar
Hi Events Calendar fans! We’re looking for some bilingual people to update the translations for The Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO. Some of the translations are getting out of date and there are bits of English showing through, and we’d like to get that fixed. And as always, translators will get a free license…
Responsive views usability test next Friday
Updated 12/16/2013: Thanks to everyone who expressed interest in participating! As of this morning, all 4 slots are filled up! Though we’re definitely getting into the holiday spirit around here and starting to wind down for the year, we’ve got one more goodie for your Christmas stocking: a usability test focused on The Events Calendar’s…
Some Of Our Favorite Places To Work
There are some serious benefits of being a remote team of Freelancers. We aren’t tied to a desk, an office building, a rigid schedule or corporate bureaucracy. We are encouraged to live a balanced life between work and family, making sure we take the time to enjoy life! As a team that isn’t tied down…
Cyber Monday Plugin Roulette
So you want to play Plugin Roulette? Great choice! Here’s everything you need to know in order to save some serious cash with our Cyber Monday sale: Every hour a different plugin or add-on will be 25% off The 25% discount applies for all license types and products During 1 special hour, when you purchase…
Meet Modern Tribe: Jonathan Brinley and Time Management
Today I’m excited to introduce you to another member of Modern Tribe, the one and only Jonathan Brinley. He’s a developer with special powers to extend WordPress so that it can do all sorts of cool things. He’s also the winner of the ‘Google Calendar Usage’ award…seriously, just wait until you see how he uses…
Follow Up Emails Plugin Integrates With WooCommerce Tickets
Just a while back we received some email correspondence from a friend, Scott Goldblatt, who built a pretty useful plugin called Follow Up Emails for WooThemes. What’s even cooler is that Scott made sure that Follow Up Emails worked seamlessly with our add-on WooCommerce Tickets (which let’s you sell tickets directly to your customers without…
Events Calendar User Survey Winners!
Recently we revamped our user survey for those who purchased our Events Calendar PRO plugin. To encourage people to participate we Tweeted out the link to the new survey. When we launched the last user survey, however, we promised to give a few lucky winners a personal license for ALL of our plugins plus a year…
Easy Digital Downloads Tickets: A Preview
As you might have seen us tease earlier this week on Twitter, we’ve been working on a whirlwind of a project with our friend Pippin Williamson recently. Today we’re stoked to finally show you the fruits of those labors: EDD Tickets, a new add-on for The Events Calendar and Easy Digital Downloads that allows you…