Securing your site against potential hackers is super important these days. Although the rewards of investing in site security are not always obvious—if you do things right, you won’t see any visible effects because you won’t get hacked and you won’t have to spend dozens or hundreds of hours repairing the impacts of identity theft,…
Page speed has a major effect on search ranking, site abandonment, and sales conversion. Today’s web users have zero patience for sites that are slow to load—according to a survey by Akamai and SOASTA, even a 100-millisecond delay (0.1 seconds) can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. The importance of making sure your website…
Access to the internet is a basic human right. With that in mind, we’ll show you how to make your site more accessible with our favorite tips to improve usability for all of your visitors, regardless of ability or disability. “Accessibility” is the term used to describe this project of making websites more inclusive—a big project,…
The first in a series of webinars by The Events Calendar support team to help our users get the most out of our plugins, this webinar focuses on the popular topic of making customizations to event views, using template overrides. We’ve done our best to set things up to be highly customizable. In addition to…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
If you’re looking for an Eventbrite alternative to sell tickets on your WordPress site, then you’ve come to the right place! Event Tickets has everything you need to start selling tickets today. Start collecting money and RSVPs for your events quickly and easily with just one plugin. For paid events, simply enter your desired ticket…
Listone Magazine is our latest iteration in our Featured Calendar series. They utilize our full suite of plugins to bring users all of the features that they need to stay informed about upcoming events. What is Listone Magazine? Within a small town in Northern Italy, the non-profit Listone Magazine is using community-generated events to promote…
Going Gutenberg is an ongoing series about our process of integrating our products with the WordPress block editor. View all chapters in the series archive, and be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to never miss an update. We’ve made significant rewrites and refactors of our products over the years, but adapting our…
With the change in seasons just beginning to settle in and December holidays looming large on the horizon, there’s much to anticipate around this time of year. For many of us here in the United States, this week’s Thanksgiving holiday is a beloved annual occasion. It’s an opportunity to break bread with friends and family,…
If you’ve ever worked before with The Events Calendar or any of our other products, you no doubt know about many of the useful features that our plugin offerings provide. You may even have spent some time exploring our additional resources for extending our products, such as the wealth of extra functions and features available…
The Events Calendar has been proud to lend support to the WordPress and nonprofit communities through our Nonprofit Partnership Program. This program provides discounted licensing for Events Calendar Pro or Event Tickets Plus to qualifying nonprofits, allowing organizations ready access to premium tools that make it easier to promote their events, generate revenue for charitable…
Community Events includes lots of exciting features that make your community calendar even easier to use! Right off the bat, you’ll notice we’ve given the plugin a huge facelift. We know looks are important when it comes to putting your best foot forward for your site visitors, so we’ve invested in revamping the style to…