Rob La Gatta
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Plugin prices are going up in June
Our plugin pricing model has remained unchanged for the duration of the 2.x lifecycle. Once 3.0 comes out, though, prices will be going up. We wanted to put this post out in the interest of transparency: so the community is aware of what we’re planning and why, and so they have time to buy at current prices before the cost increase kicks in. Don’t forget, if you have a valid license, as 3.0 comes comes … Continue reading
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The Events Calendar 3.0 Preview: Talking Templates with Jessica
This morning I sat down with Jessica Yazbek, a member of the core development team working on The Events Calendar/Events Calendar PRO 3.0, to review the new templates that are coming in the 3.0 release. Jessica has spent a good chunk of the past couple weeks working on rewriting the templates — based on feedback we’d received from support requests and beta testers alike — to make them more flexible. In our talk this morning, … Continue reading
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Getting to know you: why we’re talking to our users
We’re finding that there’s a lot to be learned from talking to your users. As we take the final steps towards launching The Events Calendar / Events Calendar PRO 3.0, it’s more important than ever to find out who our users are, why events are important to them and how we could better help them succeed — financially or, if there’s some other metric by which they gauge success, through whatever avenue is important to … Continue reading
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Events Calendar PRO 3.0 Preview Video Roundup
I hope you’ve been enjoying my The Events Calendar/Events Calendar PRO 3.0 preview posts. If you haven’t checked out our 3.0 preview page or the preview videos so far, they’re listed below and should give you a nice feel of what to expect in terms of new views and settings: I. Week View (April 1, 2013) II. Map View (April 2, 2013) III. Photo View (April 4, 2013) IV. List, Calendar & Day Views (April 8, 2013) … Continue reading
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Final call for Events Calendar PRO 3.0 translations
We’re getting closer to kicking off our “week of 1000″ translations, in which we’ll be focused exclusively on securing translations for The Events Calendar 3.0, Events Calendar PRO 3.0 and each of the corresponding add-ons that will be released alongside them. This week has officially been scheduled as May 20-27, 2013. The code will be finished. Features will be all in place and any bugs that we’re hitting for 3.0 will already be addressed. This … Continue reading
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Rescheduled usability test on renewals/upgrades is April 25
We’ve rescheduled the usability test we originally had planned for April 4, and it looks like they’ll instead be taking place next Thursday, April 25. Are you thinking of either renewing an existing license, or upgrading from one type (say, personal) to another (business or developer)? If so, we’d love to talk to you on this session. The focus of the test has also changed a bit. While it was previously planned as half theming/half renewals … Continue reading
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The Events Calendar 3.0 Preview: The “Filters” Panel Add-on
It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means…another video preview of The Events Calendar / Events Calendar PRO 3.0. Today we focus on something new. So new, in fact, that it hasn’t even been released yet: the impending filters panel add-on (which hasn’t even had time to be given an official, snazzy name). The filters panel, as you’ll see over the next 9 minutes, allows additional filtering options beyond what’s available in the events bar. … Continue reading
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The Events Calendar 3.0 Preview: Other Settings Tabs
It’s a new week, and I’m keeping the preview posts for The Events Calendar / Events Calendar PRO 3.0 coming full force. If you watched my last round you’ll know we ended last week focusing on a marathon 2-part video detailing the “General” settings tab in all its glory. Today, we’re continuing down that path and reviewing the remaining settings tabs: specifically, “Display,” “Default Content” and “Additional Fields”. I’d aimed to make this into one, … Continue reading
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The Events Calendar 3.0 Preview: Updated “General” Settings Tab
We’re shifting gears a bit in today’s videos. All of our previews for The Events Calendar / Events Calendar PRO 3.0 so far have focused on frontend views and how users can engage with them. Today’s begins a brief series that stays mostly behind the scenes, addressing the updated Settings panel in 3.0. The 2-part series below focuses on the most meaty of those Settings tabs: the General tab. There will be some overlap here … Continue reading
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The Events Calendar 3.0 Preview: List, Calendar & Day Views
Another week, another round of preview posts centered on The Events Calendar / Events Calendar PRO 3.0. If you watched the series last week, you’ll know that by this point we’ve covered all the new views: week, map and photo. Today’s video shifts gears a bit to a handful of existing views you may already been familiar with, and which are being carried over to 3.0 from the 2.x builds. They’re not new, per se, but … Continue reading
