We’d love to share with you our favorite developer plugins to make your workflow easier and more efficient. To elaborate, “developer” plugins are WordPress plugins that are not necessarily useful to the average WordPress website owner—they’re plugins made by developers for other developers. We use and love a number of developer plugins: in development, of…
One of the most powerful tools used to connect people is a robust community events calendar. It provides a destination to exchange information about events related to local areas, shared interests, or industry topics. While plugins like the Community Events add-on make it easy for community partners to submit events to your calendar from the front-end,…
As of March 2022, Stripe is now available with our free Event Tickets plugin. Check out this blog post to learn more. If you’d like to accept WooCommerce payments with Stripe, it couldn’t be easier. Simply download the free Stripe extension from WooCommerce and start accepting payments with Stripe today. Good News for Event Tickets…
This post was updated on June 17, 2020. Attendee emails are a critical component of event marketing. Long before guests arrive and check in for your event, they’ve already formed an impression of you based on your email communications. There’s an art to figuring out the right number of emails to send to your attendees.…
Using Facebook for event marketing is an excellent way to increase registrations and ticket sales for your events. The best part? All of the methods we’ve shared below won’t cost you a penny. Free Ways to Use Facebook for Event Marketing Beyond adding share buttons to your calendar listings, there are some easy ways to leverage…
So you want to connect with more WordPress people in your local area. Awesome! But where do you find local WordPress events to attend? We’ve got the skinny on resources to help you find local WordPress meetups, events, workshops, and conferences in your area. WordCamp Events WordCamps are an obvious choice for connecting with local…
Here, you’ll learn all about how you can easily collect revenue with Community Tickets. Adding a new revenue model to your WordPress site doesn’t have to be difficult, especially if you’re already using our Community Tickets plugin. Besides giving you the ability to sell tickets online through your community calendar, Community Tickets enables you to…
When it comes to making your life easier as a WordPress web developer, browser extensions and tools are low-hanging fruit. They’re generally easy to install, fairly user-friendly, and great at saving you time & headaches during the development process. Instead of trying to write an exhaustive list of all the browser tools and web developer extensions…
Event Calendar shortcodes are fantastic little pieces of code within WordPress that let you do lots of nifty things, especially with Events Calendar Pro. What Do Shortcodes Do? A shortcode is a shortcut – a way to execute code in posts, pages, and widgets on your WordPress site without having to write code directly in…
You can sell tickets to your community events right from the front end of your site with Community Tickets. This way, you never have to provide your community users with admin access. You can even create split payments so that the website admin (that’s you!) and the event organizer split the ticket sale profits. Community…
In July 2015, we announced that we were moving all our translations to GlotPress– a big step towards improving our localization and empowering our international users. Last month, we followed the WordPress community’s lead and moved the translations for our free plugin, The Events Calendar, to translate.wordpress.org. We realize that two moves in the span of a few months…
One of the best features of Events Calendar Pro is Photo View. While Week View and Month View are best at communicating the time of the event and Map View emphasizes the location of the event, Photo View does a fantastic job of emphasizing the content of the event, bringing it to life, and creating a…
Universities are enormous organizations with many moving parts. They’ve got different departments, initiatives, colleges or schools, student organizations, and clubs. In any given month, there could be hundreds of events happening on campus. That’s a lot of information for the university community to sift through! The good news: There’s a quick way to tackle this…
There’s been a bit of confusion surrounding when you do and don’t need your Events Calendar Pro license key lately, so I wanted to shed some light on the matter. The license keys serve two specific purposes: granting you access to support, and clearing you for access to future plugin updates as they come. This…
You can integrate Eventbrite with WordPress easily and it only takes a few simple steps. There are a multiple ways to make this happen and we’ll show you how to do that below. As you likely know, you can create Eventbrite events on the Eventbrite website. But how can you promote those events and add…