Promoter is a new communication solution for events and the people who run them (hey, that’s you!). With Promoter, you can connect with your community via email through every stage of your event, bolster event attendance, and manage notifications more efficiently than ever. With more than 10 years of experience building event management solutions for WordPress…
WordPress 5.0 is Coming It’s been quite an adventure prepping for the huge change that is WordPress 5.0, and in the last few weeks, that adventure has gotten super real. Our team has been working extra hard to ensure that our plugins fully support the new WordPress editor. Thus far, most of this work has…
Singapore Film Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 which aims to foster a community around the appreciation of artistic, cultural, or educational films. They host a large variety of film festivals, individual screenings, Q & A’s with industry experts, lectures, and workshops so that amateur and expert cinephiles alike can learn and enjoy…
You want your website to make a great impression on your audience. You’ve spent hours designing a stunning site that’s unique and true to your brand, and now you need your event pages to match. With a few key features and best practices in mind, you can give your event page the power to convince…
Going Gutenberg is an ongoing series about our process of integrating our products with the WordPress block editor. View all chapters in the series here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to never miss an update. We’re excited to announce the release of an official extension for The Events Calendar called…
When St. Olaf College approached Modern Tribe to redesign their website, they had two priorities at the top of their mind: the ability to customize the appearance of their site, and the functionality to support a multi-site network. As a prestigious liberal arts college with a rich Lutheran history, the ability to customize their calendar…
Have you wanted to design an event calendar and single event listings without writing code? Beaver Builder’s integration of Beaver Themer with The Events Calendar makes that possible. In our Themer’s Guide, we walk you through the basics of customizing how your website displays events. If you are using the Beaver Builder page builder, and…
Going Gutenberg is an ongoing series about our process of integrating our products with the WordPress block editor. View all chapters in the series here, and be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter to never miss an update. In Chapter I of the Going Gutenberg blog series, we examined how the introduction of…
We’re incredibly stoked to announce that The Events Calendar plugin has been downloaded over 10 million times! Before we pop the champagne, we want to say thank you by sharing the story of how we got to this point, with your help. The birth of The Events Calendar When you think of Modern Tribe, you likely…
We’re pleased to announce that The Events Calendar 4.5.12.3 hotfix is now available, which resolves an issue related to the display of events in the default Month View. This issue was introduced with WordPress version 4.8.2 and impacts all previous versions of The Events Calendar–all users are encouraged to update as soon as possible. No…
Extensibility is a key feature of The Events Calendar and Events Calendar PRO. That’s why we’re excited to announce event data is now accessible through the WordPress REST API. Update: Version 4.6 of The Events Calendar introduces full REST API support. See our guide: Introduction to The Events Calendar REST API Version 4.5 of The…
Back to school season is in full swing. From kindergarten to college, kids of all ages are brimming with potential as they gear up for a new school year. Glancing at the news, there are all sorts of articles on how to prepare your child to head back to school. From easing into preschool to…
WordPress plugins and themes are often customizable with functions called “hooks”. There are two types of hooks: actions and filters. If you’re not familiar with actions and filters, then definitely spend some time learning the basics. The WordPress Codex has an in-depth introduction to them here, and Treehouse has a great overview here, for example.…
Excerpts provide truncated previews of content with a “read more” link instead of displaying the full-length content. They’re staples of web design—especially for WordPress sites—and many page designs simply don’t work without them. So when we started hearing from customers that our handling of excerpts was not satisfactory, we knew it was a meaningful issue…
As part of our continued efforts to provide the best events management solutions for WordPress, Modern Tribe has purchased GigPress, a popular and established events plugin aimed at musicians, comedians, and other performers. GigPress joins our illustrious lineup of events plugins including The Events Calendar, Events Calendar PRO, and Event Tickets. Our events plugins get…