[Plugin: The Events Calendar] Version 1.6 released!

  • The Events Calendar version 1.6 is now up! A lot of work went into this release to fix bugs reported here and to add great deal of new functionality that I hope you find useful.

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/

    == Changelog ==

    = 1.6 =

    Features

    * Child Theme support
    * iCal Feed of all events now accessible using https://<yourUrlHere&gt;.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!)

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  • Hi Kesleydamas,

    GREAT work with this – hats off to you and everyone who has contributed.

    As more of a designer than a developer I have one request though: Do you guys to test styling on a multi-column theme? I ask because with how the CSS is written every time I upgrade I have to surgically remove and change style tags like clear: both because that automatically pushes the calendar to the bottom of the page – and you guys use that particular style command a lot.

    I think much of the woes people have with the display of the plugin can be solved by simplifying and unifying the CSS into a single well commented style-sheet with classes and definitions that can be overridden or redefined easily.

    Hi Kesleydamas,

    HTML is no longer accepted in the text fields for the event parameters. I used to be able to add hyperlinks using HTML – all old events with HTML hyperlinks now show the HTML code.

    Thread Starter kelseydamas

    (@kelseydamas)

    Hi godkid,

    I’ll respond to both of your comments:

    We’ve designed the provided CSS to work with the default wordpress 2.9 Kubrick theme and also the upcoming 3.0 “twenty ten” theme. Our goal is to provide the best “out of the box” experience as possible, but we do expect that users with custom themes will need to do some customization to integrate with their own themes.

    I would recommend that you bypass the provided templates entirely. If you maintain your own CSS file and copies of the event templates within your theme, you will not need to re-apply your changes every time you upgrade. Please see the “Default vs. Custom Templates” section in the README.

    Regarding the HTML markup, as of version 1.6 we are properly escaping HTML in the template tags. The previous version was causing problems for certain people and escaping code is generally The Right Thing to do, but of course we can’t please everyone.

    If you don’t like the new behavior, you can edit the template-tags.php file and remove all of the calls to esc_html(). So for example

    return esc_html(get_post_meta( $postId, '_EventCountry', true ));

    would become this

    return get_post_meta( $postId, '_EventCountry', true );

    Thanks for the tip kelseydamas – I’ll see how this works. My reason for wanting this is because some of the events I add to my calendar will take place in a virtual environment. Being able to link to a web space in the venue “looks cooler” than having to add it to the text.

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