Short on time? Click down to the Recap of this post for the essential bullet points of this important announcement. As you may know, Google Maps no longer supports keyless access to their maps. Users will need to have a valid API key and enter their credit card information for all projects. With this change…
We’re pleased to announce that The Events Calendar 4.6.16 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 grab the release here and then update manually. This release replaced the aggregator queue processing system to run independently of…
Continuing education is an important part of any professional’s career. For WordPress developers and designers who often work solo, conferences also provide the rare opportunity to network and possibly collaborate with other professionals in the field. Conferences also provide a much-needed push to step away from the screen, and from the development and design challenges…
Welcome to maintenance release number 7 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…
If you’re hosting a full calendar of events, your time is best spent preparing for said events, not fooling around with your website. With that being said, we’d love to show you our favorite calendar automation tools to save you time on your WordPress site. We built The Events Calendar as a free resource so…
What are UTM parameters? UTM parameters are custom tags which can be embedded in your event URL. Their goal? To help you track where your page visitors are coming from with more specificity. UTM parameters send information about a user’s digital journey back to your Google Analytics dashboard. By using a specific, recognizable tag in…
If you host multiple events in one day and would like your attendees to view them all at once, then Schedule Day View is right for you! Here’s the thing. If you’re hosting an event with multiple activities throughout the day, you run the risk of crowding the time slots in your calendar day, making…
Singapore Film Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 which aims to foster a community around the appreciation of artistic, cultural, or educational films. They host a large variety of film festivals, individual screenings, Q & A’s with industry experts, lectures, and workshops so that amateur and expert cinephiles alike can learn and enjoy…
The Events Calendar 4.6.14.1 is available now and corrects an oversight in our 4.6.14 release which led to an error that affected users site’s on PHP versions 5.5 and earlier. You should be able to take advantage of automated updates, else you can perform a manual update. Fix – Fixed fatal error that would sometimes…
Welcome to maintenance release number 6 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…
Going Gutenberg is an ongoing series about our process of integrating our products with the WordPress block editor. View all chapters in the series here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to never miss an update. In Chapter III of the Going Gutenberg series, we announced the release of Events Gutenberg,…
A church’s business is to inspire, so it’s critical for a church website to have an inspiring design. Church websites fail to excite their visitors, and often struggle to communicate key information to their congregation because they are missing inspirational designs. The churches we’ve selected below, have given their websites a fresh and lively feel…
The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25th, 2018. With WordPress powering over 30% of the web globally, this new regulation has prompted many ongoing conversations within the WordPress community. As WordPress plugin authors and users ourselves, we’ve actively engaged in our own discovery and planning for GDPR….
We actively maintain five free plugins on WordPress.org, and with maintenance releases shipping every three weeks, that means we frequently find ourselves deploying updates via Subversion (“SVN”), the version control platform used by WordPress.org. A developer has traditionally managed this process by hand, but we recently decided to automate this process. Enter: SVN Bot. With…
You want to sell event tickets, right? Selling more of your event tickets means more money in your pocket, and more customers interacting with your brand in real life. If you’re looking for the easy way to increase your ticket sales, we’ve got a few quick tips for you. 1. Make your event easy to…
