Rob La Gatta from Modern Tribe explains some of the current and future features of The Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro at the July 2015 East Bay WordPress Meetup

1. Making The Events
Calendar Sit Up + Beg
East Bay WP Meetup, July 19 2015

2. rob@tri.be
Rob La Gatta
Head of Quality + Support

3. WHAT IS THE EVENTS
CALENDAR?
(PSA: Not a narwhal)

4. WHAT PREMIUM ADD-ONS ARE
AVAILABLE?
Events Calendar PRO: Addsnewviews+featurestoTEC.
Filter Bar: Addfrontendfilteringcapabilitiestoyourcalendar.
Community Events: Forfrontendeventsubmissions.
Facebook Events: ImporteventsfromFacebooktoWordPress.
Eventbrite Tickets: ConnectyoursitetoEventbriteticketsales.
The Events Calendar Tickets: Sellticketswithinyoursitethrough
WooCommerce,EasyDigitalDownloads,ShopporWPe-Commerce.

5. 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)

6. WHAT’S NEXT?
Our next release: Version3.11thisweek!
• Anewadd-on(iCalImporter!),newcodingstandards+over100bugfixes
• Ahandfulofenhancementstoimproveperformanceforlargersites
Broader roadmap: 2015andbeyond!
• Customrecurrence,WPMLintegration,bettertimezonesupportcomingin3.12!
• iThemesTickets,attendeeinfo,CommunityTickets+QRcodesareunderway

7. 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’dliketohearaboutadvanced features for bulk registrationand
custom reporting abilities.”
• “I’d like to make it easier to customize and have a simpler admin panel for
contributor roles.”
• “Can you create events with a ‘To be determined’ date?”

8. 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!

9. THAT’S IT!
Thanksforhavingme