This will be the last major open source release on this plugin for a short while. We are exploring the possibility of converting this to a premium plugin and will let you all know quite soon what we decide. Work on 1.7, which will be released as a premium plugin (custom post types and more) is under way.

To Download: The Events Plugin 1.6

Features

* Child Theme support
* iCal Feed of all events now accessible using http://<yourUrlHere>.com/?ical
* Setting to include / exclude events form general loop
* Subcategories in events now behave properly! (and include some css for your creative endeavors)
* Get Events function no longer starts its own loop (significantly reduce conflicts with other plugins)
* Added class to current day
* PHP versions older than 5.1 will fail gracefully
* Uninstall file
* Calendar grid view now honors ‘posts_per_page’ wordpress setting.
* Calendar grid view now has “previous” and “next” month links
* Widget now has options to control behavior when there are no events to display
* Updates to widget layout (links to events and “read more”)
* It is now possible to select no default country for events
* Added a setting to control “pretty urls” to the events vs using query args (reduce conflicts with other rewrite rules)
* Default times for new event updated (all day, starting tomorrow)

Translations

* German [Felix Bartels]
* Brazilian Portuguese [Thiago Abdalla]
* Dutch [Sjoerd Boerrigter]
* Spanish [Los Jethrov]
* Updates to Swedish Translation [Kaj Johansson]
* Updates to German Translation [Andre Schuhmann]
* Danish [Carsten Matzon]

Bugs

* Improvements to field validation
* Fixes Embedded Map HTML URL Encoding so its w3c compatible (Thanks azizur!)
* Usability issue: Is this post an event? Yes/No — now you can click the text and it will select your choice. (Thanks azizur!)
* Fixes drag/drop issue (Thanks azizur!)
* State vs Province meta values were not mutually exclusive
* HTML was not properly escaped in the template
* Fixes PHP short tag issue in one of the templates
* in single.php, the Back to Events link no longer strictly goes to the grid view, but adheres to the default few option -pointed out by azzatron on the forum
* google map link is now produced with minimal information, complete address is no longer needed, W3C-compatible output
** tec_event_address() added for easy echoing of the event address
** thanks to AntonLargiader and azizur on forum
* improvement and debugging of entire error catching and displaying system
* Fixes upcoming/past sorting issue (Thanks Elliot Silver for the support!)

Update: Thank you so much for all the nice emails and interest we have received. If you are looking for technical support, please read through the support forum and if you don’t find your answer create a new thread.

We have just open sourced two plugins and would love a review / thoughts for future directions, improvement and any wisdom on promoting an open source wordpress plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/

The Events Calendar plugin enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include optional Eventbrite integration, Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eventbrite-for-the-events-calendar/

Register attendees and gather money for your events. Eventbrite is FREE for no-charge events and takes a small commission for each ticket sold. This is the easiest and best way to manage your events and now it plugs directly into WordPress!!!

Eventbrite for The Events Calendar adds Eventbrite integration to The Events Calendar. This plugin depends on The Events Calendar and has no standalone functionality. Both plugins need to be activated in order for Eventbrite functionality to work.