WordPress Events Plugin 1.6 Released
This release was quite the adventure and a major work for all the contributors. Huge thanks go out to Justin Endler and Kelsey Damas took the role of batman so that I could play Robin. The community was super active and we thank you for all your support, bug reports and more. For all you who predominant speak other languages, we got quite a few new translations submitted. Over the next weeks, we will watch the forums and do a few small dot releases to fix bugs. Please don’t post requests for help here (I’ll ignore them), use the WordPress Forum.
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!)
Great Plugin and I think a good decission to make a pro version. Why making good software without no donation?
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But its a risky step. From a pro version I think the users expect much more possibilities.
- FaceBook calendar connect (and ability to send the new calendar entry to FB or not)
- full customizeable Twitter connect (and ability to send the new calendar entry to twitter or not)
- custom post type (as you said)
- better integration to existing theme (my sidebar disapears on calendar page
- possibility to mark days as a public holiday (small text on day or color etc.). Loadable by file or service support.
- Import / export of settings (FB, Twitter etc.)
Since I like to start a new commercial blog I’m very interested in your pro version.
For what price do you think to offer the pro version?
Can I help you beta testing your new version?
Greetings from Germany
Uwe
Sorry for dbl post – posted it in wrong place … so here we go ^^
Hey, excellent plugin, realy comprehensiv, ical etc. and no probelm in styling it.
But im experiencing fails when using it on WP3/buddypress.
When activated it blocks new blogs from beeing created.
Any plans to make it wp3 / MU compatible?
Please support buddypress CMS (wordpress network) with this plugin.
http://www.buddypress.org
Hey just wanted to let you guys know this is almost exactly what I needed. Currently wordpress does not allow you to use postings to list events in such a way I have tried adding a custom field for date and I use a plugin to make the post expire but don’t have the php chops to include code that allows you to sort the posts by the new custom field event date. I am surprised no one has come up with a plugin that does this (sort by custom field for us non coder types). I would definitely be willing to pay for premium version of the calendar plugin.I hope support is included. I would run an events site here http://www.thexcene.com. I am hoping you add the ability to display an image/event flyer for the event on the listings view.
Love your plug-in. It’s really the best calendar plug-in for WordPress. We’d be more than willing to pay for a premium version that connected to Facebook and Twitter. We’d also love a way to have our users submit events to the calendar subject to the administrators final approval. Another feature that is sorely missed right now is the ability to enter a repeating event through the post interface.
Great plug-in.
I would like to incorporate a plug in like Eventbrite for advance ticket sales but at present, Eventbrite creates lots of errors so hopefully a new version will be out soon. Can you let us know when it’s due?
In the meantime, I have started posting events and I’ve noticed that when I’m inputting the decription for the event I can make a “read-more” break but it doesn’t show up when viewing (with or without the read more). So my description is too long for your area? or can I adjust something?
SOlution to increasing the length of the description:
Copy the following code and put it into the functions.php in your theme.
//changes length of excerpt
function new_excerpt_length($length) {
return 250;
}
add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘new_excerpt_length’);
Note: I’m still looking for the code to increase the room in the tooltip description
Found it!!
Copied table.php into events
changed:
to:
Sorry forgot the “”
Copied table.php into my theme/events/
changed
“”
to:
“”
darn! still didn’t work
Changed:
“The_Events_Calendar::truncate(get_the_content(), 30)”
To
“The_Events_Calendar::truncate(get_the_content(), 250)”
Question for you -
I have several upcoming events but when I post an event, I don’t want the date I posted in the event to be the permalink. Any ideas on how to fix that?
This is a great plugin. The feature that puts this calendar ahead of the rest is the ability to post events from the post screen. I’m looking forward to the updates.
I have so many additional needs for this plugin.
I need to be able to offer various ways to buy tickets such as ticket master in addition to eventbrite or donations !!
I also need to be able to include a promotional video for the event and a event flyer. Ideally I’d like to choose between three layouts for the post which includes the map, flyer, promo video and maybe photo section.
Since all of my events are also posted to facebook adding the ability to automatically create facebook events in the same way that blogtalkradio.com does would be great !!
As for the next free version upgrade I’m hoping you include a way to choose your own page instead of using the default category events.
Thanks for such a great plugin.
hello,
great plugin, but is it possible to let users create an event?
Not directly, but through the use of something like gravity forms and a bit of code jitsu, definitely. Tim Bowen has done this and is actually writing up a tutorial on how to do it yourself that should help.
When will there be a support for Facebook event integration? (no mather if free or premium version)
Since you happen to the be the first to request it – someday but not super soon. You might want to add it to the support forum feature request.
Oh, from there I got the information that it is already on the upcoming feature list and should be available quite soon!
Hmm, I think many believe so too.
From what I can tell you, many are seeking a solution to integrating facebook events into their websites.
(agencies as well as companies).
see for example here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-events-integration
You may find http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-the-events-calendar-sync-with-facebook-events interesting too.
I had problems with The Event Calendar and Role Scoper. Eventually found the fix here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-the-events-calendar-posts_where-filter-in-wp-admin-conflicts-w-other-plugins
Will you be adding this fix to the next version (premium or otherwise?)
I find myself using Role Scoper more and more on complex client projects, so it would be good if the two plugins can play nicely together.
Thanks.
I’ll run it by our dev on ECP.
Hey Shane,
I made a formal request for the facebook events integration. It’d be so awesome if that could be included soon, lol.
Maybe even integration to yahoo evits would be cool too!
It is high on the ECP 2.0 roadmap. Can’t guarantee it will make it, but I am rooting for that feature along with front end event submission.
Hi
Is it poosible to have hide fileds in a event post? I should wish is have possible to make som notes tha t was not published.
If not, is possible to have in Premium Events Calendar 1.1?
Not really. You are the first to ever ask for that. In ECP 2.0 we are considering adding custom meta support, to which you could add that.
Hi Shane,
if you look at the first comment … I request the FB feature, too
In your pro version the calendar widget won’t translate correctly?! Date and “View all” is allways in english.
Is it my fault or doesn’t it support translation?
GREAT PLUGIN……
Can I display multiple calendars with the plugin? Not sure if I can use categories or Multiple calendars or how to go about doing it. Basically I would like the ability to have say a “Service” calendar and an “events” calendar and maybe more. Any thoughts? thanks.
You can do that with ECP. It has full subcat support.
Hello guys,
can you tell me if there is a recurring event possible with your calendar plugin? Good work so far
Greetings
Sebastian
Not the free version. ECP 2.0 is under way and once we release it that will support reocurring events.
Hello,
Very useful plugin. One question: from where are names of the months taken? I’d like alter english names with polish ones.