In this post we’re going to dive in to one of our favorite Promoter features: triggered messages. What does that mean? Well, in addition to scheduling messages, you can now create messages automatically when one of your attendees performs a specific action, such as submitting an RSVP or purchasing a ticket. With more than 10…
Creating a calendar for Higher Education or university group can be tricky. With so many events across departments, you need the right tools to simplify your complex calendar. Luckily, if you run your university group or department website on WordPress, you have tons of great calendar tools right at your fingertips. A calendar makes it…
Whether you worship in a church, mosque, synagogue, or temple, your faith organization’s website needs an events calendar. A calendar makes it easy for worshippers to keep track of upcoming services, youth groups, and special events. It also makes it easy for church administrators to track registration, attendance, and sell tickets. Your calendar can even…
Meg Chaloner is the founder and co-CEO of Sip & Script, a business that started in Boston and expanded two years ago when Cahon and her team brought their signature calligraphy workshops to cities around the United States. By partnering with artists across the country, Sip & Script delivers hands-on calligraphy workshops at local businesses…
Back in December, we launched a new look for the Event Tickets ticket form and attendee registration process. Today, we’re stoked to share a preview of our redesigned RSVP form that users see when registering for an event. We’ve included this preview with today’s update of Event Tickets so you can test it out on…
Accessibility is a top priority for our team at The Events Calendar. In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to share a behind-the-scenes look at some of the ways we’ve made our WordPress calendar plugins more accessible for all users. We’re always striving to make our products more inclusive, and we’re proud of…
Finding the right calendar for your WordPress site can be a little bit daunting. With so many plugins to choose from, it’s a challenge to compare all the options and decide which calendar is right for you. If you’re on the quest to find your perfect WordPress calendar, fret not. We’ve put together a list…
Have you seen WP Sandbox? It’s this handy service that spins up a hosted WordPress site as easily as those 1-click install options offered by some hosts. The difference is that there’s no host and no domain needed. We’re big fans and use it often here on the team. In fact, we’re such fans that…
Many developers are used to working on an in-person team where colleagues are just steps away, ready to offer a gut check or a second opinion. But if your dev team is switching to working from home—either temporarily or for the long haul—you’ll need to make some adjustments to the ways you collaborate. Remote work makes…
Up in Northern California, above Sacramento, is the town of Chico. It may be a relatively small place, but it’s home to the Sierra Nevada brewery. What started as a hand-built brewhouse in 1980 is now a household name that’s expanded to both coasts and is recognized as a pioneer in the craft beer movement.…
Tickets and events. They often go together, not completely unlike the way we expect peanut butter and jelly, bread and butter and ice cream and pickles. The fact is that hosting an event with tickets means that you’ve gotta sell those tickets. There’s really no way around it. If attendees require a ticket to get…
Debating whether you really need to add a calendar to your website? We get it: When you run a business, creating and managing an events calendar might seem like just another chore on your long to-do list. But for many business owners, a website calendar is a must-have, whether events are your bread and butter…
The Events Calendar debuted in 2009. Ten years and 18 million downloads later, a lot has changed, but there is one thing that has remained consistent: the calendar design. We’ve spent the better part of the last year strategizing, planning, and building a makeover. In the coming months, we’ll be introducing new calendar views for…
It’s hard to believe, but The Events Calendar is coming up on its 10-year anniversary. That’s nearly a decade of building and maintaining WordPress event management plugins that are used the world over. In fact, our plugins now power more than 700,000 calendars around the globe. As the Product Owner for The Events Calendar, I…
If you run a community calendar to help people find events in your community or your industry, it’s time to harness the power of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is essentially another word for outsourcing. Merriam-Webster defines it as “the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people.” When…