Release: The Events Calendar 4.0.2 + premium add-ons

If you’ve been following along, you know that we recently released The Events Calendar 4.0, including updates to all of our premium add-ons for it. Well, we’ve been hard at work squashing bugs to make sure things are working as smoothly as possible and are happy to have The Events Calendar 4.0.2 ready for you.

This release is focused solely on issues that have been reported by customers in our support forums. Thanks to everyone for reporting issues as you see you them so we can tackle them and ship updates quickly.

This release also impacts a few of our premium add-ons, so we’ll be sure to cover all those changes here so you know what’s new and what to update.

And, of course, if you haven’t updated to The Events Calendar 4.0 yet, it is a major release and you will want to read the changelog and test the update in a safe environment before updating.

With that, let’s dig in!

The following plugins have not been updated and remain at their current versions:

  • iCal Importer 4.0.1
  • Facebook Events 4.0
  • Eventbrite Tickets 4.0

The Events Calendar 4.0.2

  • Tweak – Adding better support for non-numeric cost values on events (Props to Mirja for highlighting this!)
  • Tweak – Avoid notice level errors when advanced events list widget settings are saved (Thank you Johan for reporting the issue!)
  • Tweak – Improve messaging in the same-slug warning message (Thanks to Simon for bringing this to our attention!)
  • Tweak – Hook to Event Tickets to inject event dates into ticket emails
  • Tweak – Adding better support for default venues (Props to Karly for noting this!)
  • Tweak – Improve handling of internationalized slugs (Cheers to Oliver for the help!)
  • Fix – Ensure the past events list displays the correct events when accessed via ajax (Thank you Jesse for highlighting this!)
  • Fix – Support ordering by venue/organizer within event queries (Thank you Doug for bringing this to our attention!)
  • Fix – Fixed issue where events with the same date/time would sometimes be excluded from single-event navigation (Cheers to JeremyEnglert for the tip!)
  • Fix – Resolved issue where events set with the explicit cost of 0 were not showing as “Free” (Thank you terrizsolo for reporting this!)
  • Fix – Fixed bug where the datepicker in Twenty Sixteen was really ugly
  • Fix – Fixed bug where using Quick Edit on events caused the table columns in the event list to become jumbled on save (Props to A K for the report!)
  • Fix – Resolved bug where category links sometimes included event category 1 (Thank you Anthony for the original report of this problem!)
  • Fix – Fixed a settings page URL (Props to Kristy for the heads up!)

Events Calendar PRO 4.0.2

  • Tweak – Avoid notice level errors when advanced events list widget settings are saved (Thank you Johan for the report!)
  • Tweak – Simplify default values logic to ensure that default values are returned regardless of post type (Thank you Karly!)
  • Fix – Fixed bug where recurrence excluses were not always respected (Cheers to inhouse for the help!)
  • Fix – Ensure venue and organizer URLs can be localized even with non-Roman alphabets (Thanks for the report Andreas!)
  • Fix – Ensure the current default venue fields are reflected in the relevant settings screen (Thank you Carly for highlighting this!)
  • Fix – Resolved issue where new recurring events were not targetable by the Recurring APM filter (Props to terrizsolo for the help!)
  • Fix – Fixed bug where the Isotope reLayout method was sometimes getting executed before Isotope was initialized causing Photo view to break (Thank you Douglas for bringing this up!)
  • Fix – Fixed issue where past events for Map and Photo view were not in descending order (Thank you Jesse!)
  • Fix – Resolved bug where week/photo permalinks were sometimes generated incorrectly (Cheers to Anthony for the tip!)
  • Fix – Fixed bug with the List Widget where the Organizer displayed even when it is disabled in the widget settings (Thank you Eric!)
  • Fix – Resolved translation issues with the List Widget (Props to amazing on the forum for reporting this!)

Filter Bar 4.0.2

  • Tweak – Includes a new “Others” option for the cost field filter (Thank you Mirja for the help!)

Community Events 4.0.2

  • Tweak – Ignore default venue values to reduce the amount of duplicate venues generated by community organizers (Thank you Carly!)

 Community Tickets 4.0.2

  • Fix – Resolved fatals introduced by relocated files in WP 4.4 (Thank you Dirk for reporting this!)
  • Fix – Resolved textdomain issue that caused translations to fail

Events Tickets 4.0.2

  • Tweak – Removing dates from ticket emails when those tickets are attached to non The Events Calendar event posts
  • Fix – Fixed a settings page URL (Thanks for the tip Kristy!)

Event Tickets Plus 4.0.2

  • Tweak – Gracefully handle negative inventories (Thank you Ameet for the report!)
  • Fix – Resolved bug where the textdomain was not loaded at the appropriate time causing translations to fail (Cheers to Stéphane Bergeron for bringing this up!)
  • Fix – Corrected the URL in the popup about Event Tickets being a prerequisite (Thanks for the tip websource!)