Summary
Feature Release
This latest update of The Events Calendar includes the Category Colors functionality merged directly into the plugin, and adds Events Variables for Yoast SEO.
We’re also excited to deliver the initial phase of our ongoing accessibility improvements with this update. Developers are advised to carefully review any customizations for compatibility before updating.
As always, we recommend testing updates on a staging site first, but it should all be smooth sailing.
✨ Feature
Features in this release:
- Category Colors functionality has been merged into The Events Calendar.
- Events Variables for Yoast SEO
✅ Fixes
Bugs squashed in this release:
- Add width and height attributes on images displayed in our Events pages.
- Disabled Event Views should redirect to default view.
- Recognize when the theme is registering single or archive Event templates when using a Block theme, and avoid registering our own.
⚙️ Tweaks
Tweaks in this release:
- Added actions:
tec_events_category_colors_saved,tec_events_category_colors_migration_status_updated,tec_events_category_colors_migration_reset,tribe_log,tec_events_category_colors_migration_preprocessor_start,tec_events_category_colors_migration_preprocessor_end,tec_events_category_colors_migration_validator_start,tec_events_category_colors_migration_validator_end,tec_events_category_colors_migration_runner_start,tec_events_category_colors_migration_runner_end,tec_events_category_colors_migration_post_schedule_action,tec_events_category_colors_migration_post_cancel_action,tec_events_settings_tab_display_category_colors,tec_conditional_content_header_notice - Tweak – Added filters:
tec_events_category_color_generator_batch_size,tec_events_category_colors_enabled,tec_events_category_colors_show_frontend_ui,tec_events_category_validate_meta_key,tec_events_category_validate_meta_value,tec_events_category_colors_force_migration_notice,tec_category_colors_is_tec_admin_page,tec_events_category_colors_migration_batch_size,tec_events_category_colors_migration_pre_schedule_action,tec_events_category_colors_migration_pre_execute_action,tec_events_category_colors_migration_,tec_events_category_colors_migration_pre_cancel_action,tec_events_category_color_enabled_views,tec_events_category_color_dropdown_categories,tec_events_category_color_raw_categories,tec_events_category_color_category_meta,tec_events_category_color_filtered_categories,tec_events_category_color_sorted_categories,tec_events_category_color_highest_priority_category,tec_events_category_color_event_categories,tec_events_category_color_category_priorities,tec_events_views_v2_view_template_vars - Add the conditional content notice to Event Aggregator pages
- Changed views:
blocks/classic-event-details,blocks/event-category,blocks/event-datetime,blocks/event-organizer,blocks/event-price,blocks/event-tags,blocks/event-venue,blocks/event-website,blocks/parts/subscribe-list,blocks/parts/subscribe-single,integrations/elementor/widgets/empty,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-calendar-link,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-categories,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-categories/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-cost,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-cost/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-datetime,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-datetime/all-day,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-datetime/end-date,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-datetime/end-time,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-datetime/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-datetime/range-separator,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-datetime/start-date,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-datetime/start-time,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-datetime/time-separator,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-export,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-export/button,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-export/link,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-export/list-item,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-image,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-navigation,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-navigation/next,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-navigation/previous,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/details,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/details/email,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/details/email/content,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/details/email/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/details/phone,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/details/phone/content,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/details/phone/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/details/website,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/details/website/content,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/details/website/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-organizer/names,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-status/passed,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-status/status,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-tags,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-tags/content,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-tags/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-title,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/address,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/address/address,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/address/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/address/map_link,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/map,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/name,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/phone,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/phone/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/phone/phone,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/single-venue,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/website,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/website/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-venue/website/website,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-website,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-website/header,integrations/elementor/widgets/event-website/link,modules/meta/venue,single-event,v2/components/events-bar,v2/components/events-bar/views,v2/components/header,v2/components/messages,v2/components/messages/error-icon,v2/components/messages/notice-icon,v2/components/top-bar/category-color-picker,v2/components/top-bar/today,v2/day,v2/day/event,v2/day/event/category,v2/day/event/date/featured,v2/day/event/featured-image,v2/day/top-bar,v2/day/top-bar/datepicker,v2/latest-past/event,v2/latest-past/event/date/featured,v2/latest-past/event/featured-image,v2/list,v2/list/event,v2/list/event/category,v2/list/event/date-tag,v2/list/event/date/featured,v2/list/nav/next-disabled,v2/list/nav/next,v2/list/nav/prev-disabled,v2/list/nav/prev,v2/list/top-bar,v2/list/top-bar/datepicker,v2/month,v2/month/calendar-body,v2/month/calendar-body/day,v2/month/calendar-body/day/calendar-events/calendar-event,v2/month/calendar-body/day/calendar-events/calendar-event/date/featured,v2/month/calendar-body/day/calendar-events/calendar-event/title,v2/month/calendar-body/day/calendar-events/calendar-event/tooltip/date/featured,v2/month/calendar-body/day/calendar-events/calendar-event/tooltip/title,v2/month/calendar-body/day/cell-title,v2/month/calendar-body/day/date-extras,v2/month/calendar-body/day/date,v2/month/calendar-body/day/multiday-events/multiday-event,v2/month/calendar-body/day/multiday-events/multiday-event/bar/featured,v2/month/calendar-body/day/multiday-events/multiday-event/bar/title,v2/month/calendar-body/day/multiday-events/multiday-event/hidden/link/featured,v2/month/calendar-body/day/multiday-events/multiday-event/hidden/link/title,v2/month/calendar-header,v2/month/mobile-events/mobile-day,v2/month/mobile-events/mobile-day/mobile-event,v2/month/mobile-events/mobile-day/mobile-event/date/featured,v2/month/mobile-events/mobile-day/mobile-event/featured-image,v2/month/mobile-events/mobile-day/mobile-event/title,v2/month/top-bar,v2/month/top-bar/datepicker,v2/widgets/widget-events-list,v2/widgets/widget-events-list/event,v2/widgets/widget-events-list/event/date/featured,v2/widgets/widget-events-qr-code - Update Month view templates to use a more semantically appropriate table structure. Developers are advised to carefully review any customizations for compatibility before updating.
♿️ Accessibility
Accessibility improvements in this release:
- Changed aria-labels to aria-descriptions for WCAG compliance.
- Correct an issue where alert text was not announced by screen readers.
- Correct some heading uses that were confusing and/or misapplied.
- Correct some images where the alt text conflicted with the linked title.
- Improve the keyboard navigation of the Views menu.
- Remove redundant aria-label attributes where they duplicate existing visible text.
- Remove redundant title attributes on some images and links.
- Updated featured icons in all calendar views to include accessible labels. Reorganized the Month view Feature icons to be more understandable when read by a screen reader. Reworked several icon applications to make them more accessible.
🗣 Translations
Updated language files and strings:
- 59 new strings added
- 132 updated
- 1 fuzzied
- 1 obsoleted