Event Calendar

This is a minor update that fixes compatibility up to WordPress v2.6.2. Thanks to Darrell Schulte for checking-in the patches, and various contributors for suggesting the fixes.

The project has now (finally) moved over to the Plugins Directory at wordpress.org, so you can get the latest code from there: event-calendar.zip

If you like Event Calendar, you can now vote for us at the Plugins Directory.

[DOWNLOAD] This is my second attempt at a release that fixes compatibility with Wordpress 2.3. Please try it, and let me know if you have any difficulties.

The main change since RC2 is a fix to turn-off broken canonical redirection when both m= & cat= are set. Event Calendar sometimes uses URLs like:
http://wpcal.firetree.net/index.php?m=20071120&cat=1.
Newer versions of WordPress try to rewrite this URL, but get it wrong. The fix turns off the redirection, when it’s not going to work.

Other changes are…

• Fixed ambiguous JavaScript variable name. Thanks to Chris Marshall.
• Fixed unescaped characters in %TITLE% variables. Thanks to Elizabeth M., Peter Troxler and everyone who helped to troubleshoot this problem.
• Replaced calls to deprecated get_settings() with get_option(). Thanks to JD Puglisi for pointing out this issue.
• Macedonian translation. Thanks to Vanco Ordanoski.

[DOWNLOAD] This is my first attempt at a release that fixes compatibility with Wordpress 2.3. Please try it, and let me know if you have any difficulties.

WP2.3 fundamentally changed the way categories work. This new version should be more compatible with 2.3 AND still work with previous versions. As a side-effect, it’s no longer possible to upgrade to ECv3.1 from v3.0 or earlier.

Other changes are…

• Now compatible with Google Calendar.
• Added Danish translation.
• Added Turkish translation.
• Added Catalan translation.

Thanks to Vincent Cubells, we now have a Catalan translation. I’ve not yet put it into a release, but you can download the file from Subversion: ec3-ca_ES.mo (right-click the link and choose “Save Link As…” or the equivalent).

Once you have the file, copy it into your eventcalendar3/gettext directory. That’s it!

[DOWNLOAD] This is my first attempt at a release that fixes compatibility with Wordpress 2.1. Please try it on 2.1 AND 2.0, and let me know if you have any difficulties.

WP2.1 changed the way it formed category queries, so EC was not able to distinguish between category queries and regular ones. Queries like m=20070205&cat=3 (Only Show Events mode) should now work. The Event category listing page should also be back to normal. Thanks to everyone who reported this.

Other changes are…

• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.
• Added Italian translation.
• Corrected Dutch translation.

Thanks to DJ Spark and Ildefonso Zanetti, we now have a Brazilian Portuguese translation. I’ve not yet put it into a release, but you can download the file from Subversion: ec3-pt_BR.mo (right-click the link and choose “Save Link As…” or the equivalent).

Once you have the file, copy it into your eventcalendar3/gettext directory. That’s it!

Thanks to Nicola Ruggiero and Jimmi, we now have an Italian translation. I’ve not yet put it into a release, but you can download the file from Subversion: ec3-it_IT.mo (right-click the link and choose “Save Link As…” or the equivalent).

Once you have the file, copy it into your eventcalendar3/gettext directory. That’s it!

I’m pleased to announce the release of Event Calendar version 3.1.0. This is stable software that hundreds of people are already running on their WordPress web-sites.

A big thank you to everyone who has contributed or reported bugs. Special thanks go to Darrell Schulte for the Event Editor and Widgets and K2 support, David Nutter for his version of the Event Editor, and to all of the translators. [more credits]

Main Features

Dynamic Ajax calendar that shows both events and normal blog posts.

List upcoming events, either in the sidebar or on a full page.

Simple to install and use. Create events using a new popup calendar on the post edit page.

Now fully supports WordPress 2.0.

Supports WordPress Widgets, so that you can add events to your sidebar without having to edit PHP files.

Subscribe to your events from iCal, Sunbird, Google calendar and other iCalendar-aware applications.

Fully timezone aware.

Translations available to Dutch, German, Finnish, French Norwegian and Spanish.

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I’ve just uploaded Release Candidate 4. This only contains four bug-fixes. Thanks to the people who tried the last release candidate and found these niggles. Again, If nobody finds any bugs in this release candidate, then it will become version 3.1.0 by this time next week.

The bugfixes are:

• Cope gracefully with PHP ’safe mode’ forbidding us from changing timezones. (Reported by Karl Kolk.)
• Upgrade now forces event posts’ post_date to be in the past, even if their post_modified is in the future. (Reported by Ray Walker and others.)
• New query var ?ec3_after now actually works.
• Fixed SQL errors when WordPress’ “exclude category” query is used. (Spotted by Mels.)

I’ve just uploaded Release Candidate 3. This only contains conservative changes, since I’m working towards an imminent release. Thanks to everyone who has downloaded the beta versions and reported problems. Bugs would not get fixed without you guys.

If nobody finds any bugs in this release candidate, then it will become version 3.1.0 by this time next week.

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