Making The Events Calendar Sit Up + Beg

East Bay WP Meetup, July 19 2015

rob@tri.be

Rob La GattaHead of Quality + Support

WHAT IS THE EVENTS CALENDAR?

(PSA: Not a narwhal)

WHAT PREMIUM ADD-ONS ARE AVAILABLE?

Events Calendar PRO: Adds new views + features to TEC.

Filter Bar: Add frontend filtering capabilities to your calendar.

Community Events: For frontend event submissions.

Facebook Events: Import events from Facebook to WordPress.

Eventbrite Tickets: Connect your site to Eventbrite ticket sales.

The Events Calendar Tickets: Sell tickets within your site through WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, Shopp or WP e-Commerce.

LET’S CHECK OUT A FEW EXAMPLES….

http://hotelcongress.com/ (The Events Calendar custom implementation)

http://www.culinarylocal.com/ (TEC + PRO, Filter Bar, WooCommerce Tickets)

http://www.seattledogspot.com/ (TEC + PRO, Filter Bar, Community Events)

http://www.sockeyebrew.com/ (TEC + PRO, Category Colors 3rd party add-on)

WHAT’S NEXT?Our next release: Version 3.11 this week!

• A new add-on (iCal Importer!), new coding standards + over 100 bug fixes • A handful of enhancements to improve performance for larger sites

Broader roadmap: 2015 and beyond! • Custom recurrence, WPML integration, better time zone support coming in 3.12! • iThemes Tickets, attendee info, Community Tickets + QR codes are underway

QUESTION TIME!Some questions people provided beforehand:

• “I'd like to know more about the Eventbrite integration.”

• “Can it work with WooCommerce to display events that lead to a product page when clicked?”

• “I’d like to hear about advanced features for bulk registration and custom reporting abilities.”

• “I’d like to make it easier to customize and have a simpler admin panel forcontributor roles.”

• “Can you create events with a ‘To be determined’ date?”

A PARTING GIFT

Use the coupon ebwpforever to get 75% off Events Calendar PRO tonight ONLY

Use the coupon 50ebwphookup to get 50% off any of Modern Tribe’s premium add-ons for the next 2 weeks

Please don’t share these!

THAT’S IT!Thanks for having me