The Events Calendar 5.1.1

Howdy friends! The Events Calendar 5.1.1 features updates to our timezone settings, improves usability with the WordPress Customizer, and includes some fixes for our Event Aggregator service.

This is a minor release that should be smooth sailing when updating. That said, it’s always a good idea to backup your site and test changes in a development environment before installing this on your live site, as you would with any other WordPress update.

Here are the detailed changes included in this release:

• Feature – We have moved all the featured event icons to individual templates to make for easier customizing.
• Feature – We added a helper method Tribe__Plugins::is_active( ‘slug’ ) to check if a given plugin is active.
• Feature – We have added entry points through filters to be able to add content after the opening HTML tag or before the closing HTML tag.
• Tweak – The methods Tribe__Events__Main::get_i18n_strings_for_domains() and Tribe__Events__Main::get_i18n_strings() have now been deprecated. We now use the methods with the same name and signature provided by the tribe( ‘tec.18n’ ) object.
• Tweak – We added the new filter tribe_aggregator_manage_record_column_source_html to customize the source column content HTML used on the Event Aggregator Import “History” tab.
• Tweak – We have modified some language variables in order to improve translations readability for the navigation on updated calendar views, particularly for previous and next buttons. (Props to @justlevine!)
• Fix – Changes made in the WordPress Customizer now take effect properly without Events Calendar Pro activated.
• Fix – We resolved an issue where some users were unable to create events on initial install or plugin activation.
• Fix – We have adjusted our templates to show the timezone in event details when “Show timezone” is checked.
• Fix – We now ensure that the timezone information is correctly displayed after clicking the “Update Timezone Data” button.
• Fix – We now show the correct counts on the Event Aggregator Import “History” tab for non-Event content types being imported.
• Fix – We now prevent the creation of empty venues when removing a Venue inside of the Events using the Classic editor that has a U.S. state selected.
• Fix – Event Aggregator imported events when using a default status or categories from the Settings Page import correctly now.
• Fix – We have resolved an issue where the updated calendar views and WPML generated an incorrect URL address.
• Fix – We fixed a third-party PHP 7 compatibility issue when using func_get_args.
• Tweak – We have extended support for namespaced classes in the autoloader.
• Tweak – We now make the Customizer stylesheet enqueue filterable via tribe_customizer_inline_stylesheets.
• Tweak – We have normalized namespaced prefixes with a trailing backslash when registering them in the autoloader.
• Language – 2 new strings added, 243 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 1 obsoleted