What happens if I decide not to pay another year for updates?

[Milla]

If I buy Events Calendar Pro,

What happens if I decide not to buy another year for free updates and support?

Thank you.

Milla

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Milla and welcome to the Events Calendar forum!

Thank you for your interest in our products.
We’ll be glad to answer your questions.

After one year, when your license expires, the plugins will still work if you do not choose to renew.

But, you will most likely need to “freeze” your the Events Calendar related plugins to their current version (all of them) to make sure they work with one another.

The good news is that you can still change your mind and renew at any time.

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[Milla]

Thank you for for answer Geoff!!

One more question, does your Events Calendar plugin become vulnerable for hackers or robots scripts finding vulnerabilities to affect sites if I don’t renovate the free updates after one year?

Thank you,

Milla

[Geoff B.]

Good afternoon Milla,

Thank you for writing back.

That is a great question. We do code our plugins with the highest standards.
But you are right, just like WordPress itself, over time hackers can sometimes find vulnerabilities.

Through all the years I have been around, I have seen this happen a couple of times.
And to put things into perspective, this was a vulnerability that impacted WordPress users at large.

In any case, when something like this is reported we act on it immediately.

So yes, making sure you can upgrade is the best way to prevent vulnerabilities on your site.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

[Milla]

Hello Geoff,

Thank you again for the answer.

I was thinking also about your first answer and I was wondering, which related plugins need to be “freeze” related with my the Events Calendar, are you referring to? Like in example?

Thank you,

Milla

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Milla,

That is a great follow-up question.

What I meant is that the Events Calendar plugin is meant to work with the version of the add-ons that are released more or less around the same time.

For example, at the time of writing, the Events Calendar is at version 4.6.11.1

This specific version of the Events Calendar, will work perfectly with:

1. the Events Calendar Pro 4.4.23
2. Event Tickets 4.6.3.1
3. Event Tickets Plus 4.6.2

This is because all of these were programmed and released around the same time and have been tested for compatibility.

If you stopped your subscription after a year, you would still be able to upgrade our free plugins ( the Events Calendar and Event Tickets ). But this is precisely what you should not do because this will result in “unmatching” and untested for compatibility version combinations.

In other words, you will have to stop updating every single plugin from the the Events Calendar or Event Tickets family, even the free ones if you want to continue using your premium non-upgraded versions.

Have a good weekend,

Geoff B.

 

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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