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,…
We recently finished our first round of beta testing for our newest product, Community Tickets – thanks to all the participants who tested the plugin and supplied us with feedback! We’ll be launching a second round of beta testing on September 23rd, and are hoping for even more testers and feedback this time around. Sign…
On July 8, 2012, Rob logged an internal ticket describing compatibility issues between The Events Calendar and WPML. A little over three years later, we are proud to say that The Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO are now multilingual compatible. As we’ve said before, Modern Tribe strives for the best quality code. We also…
Our flagship product, The Events Calendar, has officially reached 2 million downloads! When we first added The Events Calendar to the WordPress.org repo 6 years ago, we knew we were onto something big. Within the first few months, our plugin had already been downloaded 25,000 times. The demand for events calendar functionality within WordPress sites…
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…
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…
Events Calendar Pro 3.10 will ship with a refactored Week view. This refactor was done so that Week view would be easier to understand under the hood, easier to customize, and more extensible. We’ve also added a couple new features. Why We Did This You may be wondering why we did this. Here is a…
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…
Support isn’t the only role we’re looking to fill at Modern Tribe: our Quality team is also growing. We work across a variety of projects from small plugins to huge multisite networks, and hope to work with someone who has a keen attention to detail and finds nothing greater in life than proposing meaningful solutions…
Hey folks! Modern Tribe is looking for great, passionate support people to join our community team and help provide technical support for web developers. You’d be helping provide support for The Events Calendar, Events Calendar PRO and their suite of premium add-ons. We’re passionate about helping our users do cool things with WordPress. You’ll wear…
Have you ever wanted to syndicate events from Events Calendar PRO on a multisite network? Thanks to the good folks at Shenandoah University, you now have the power! The university’s development team recently shared their custom implementation on the forums, and it’s pretty slick. Geoff Graham, our support guru who many of you have exchanged…
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…
