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Maintenance Release for the Week of 9 September 2018
ByJaime Marchwinski September 12, 2018October 17, 2025

Welcome to maintenance release number 13 of 2018! If this is your first time getting an update from us, maintenance releases are smaller updates between major releases, and are mostly comprised of bug fixes, tweaks, and small (but meaningful!) improvements. We always recommend using a staging site to test these changes before updating on a…

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Gutenberg is Coming: Preparing for the New WordPress Block Editor
ByJaime Marchwinski September 6, 2018March 4, 2020

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…

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Secure Your WordPress Site Against Attacks in 2022
ByJaime Marchwinski August 29, 2018September 24, 2021

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,…

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The Events Calendar 4.6.22.1 and Community Events 4.5.13.1
ByJaime Marchwinski August 27, 2018October 17, 2025

We’re pleased to announce that The Events Calendar 4.6.22.1 and Community Events 4.5.13.1 are now available. In most cases you will be able to take advantage of automated updates, but if those are unavailable for any reason you can download the plugins from your downloads page then update manually. The Events Calendar 4.6.22.1 Fix – Allow user…

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5 Ways to Improve Page Speed in 2022
ByJaime Marchwinski August 23, 2018October 17, 2025

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…

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Event Tickets 4.8 and Event Tickets Plus 4.8
ByJaime Marchwinski August 22, 2018September 4, 2018

We are proud to annouce Event Tickets 4.8 and Event Tickets Plus 4.8! In this version we made some small but significant changes to the REST API around the tickets functionality. Also, we fixed many bugs in The Events Calendar, Events Calendar PRO and Community Tickets. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should check…

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Drumroll Please…Meet Our New QR Code Check-In App!
ByJaime Marchwinski August 17, 2018August 21, 2018

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…

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WordCamp Boston Slides: Adapting to Gutenberg
ByJaime Marchwinski August 14, 2018March 4, 2020

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…

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Events Calendar Pro 4.4.30.1
ByJaime Marchwinski August 9, 2018October 17, 2025

We’re pleased to announce that Events Calendar PRO 4.4.30.1 is now available. In most cases you will be able to take advantage of automated updates, but if those are unavailable for any reason you can download the plugin from your downloads page then update manually. Events Calendar PRO 4.4.30.1 Fix – Add back 3rd parameter to existing…

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Important Facebook API Changes
ByJaime Marchwinski August 3, 2018September 17, 2020

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…

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Finding (and Fixing!) Broken Links
ByJaime Marchwinski August 2, 2018March 4, 2020

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…

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Maintenance Release for the Week of 29 July 2018
ByJaime Marchwinski August 1, 2018October 17, 2025

Welcome to maintenance release number 11 of 2018! If this is your first time getting an update from us, maintenance releases are smaller updates between major releases, and are mostly comprised of bug fixes, tweaks, and small (but meaningful!) improvements. We always recommend using a staging site to test these changes before updating on a…

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User-Friendly Websites: 4 Essential Components
ByJaime Marchwinski July 26, 2018October 17, 2025

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…

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It’s Time to Go All-In with Gutenberg
ByJaime Marchwinski July 20, 2018March 4, 2020

“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…

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Awesome WooCommerce Extensions for Event Ticket Sales
ByJaime Marchwinski July 18, 2018October 17, 2025

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…

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