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The Events Calendar

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WordPress events calendar, scheduling and ticketing plugin suite.

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The Events Calendar runs a disciplined maintenance train across its whole plugin suite.

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◆Current state
The Events Calendar is a mature WordPress events and ticketing suite spanning several plugins — the core calendar, Event Tickets, Filter Bar, Community, and Pro add-ons. The recent release stream is almost entirely maintenance: bug fixes, translation updates, accessibility work, and payment-gateway handling for PayPal, Square, and Stripe. Development is spread evenly across the plugin family rather than concentrated in one flagship.
◆Where it's heading
This is a product in steady stewardship mode. The releases show a team keeping a large installed base stable — tightening capability checks for security, fixing pagination and view rendering, improving WooCommerce and Elementor compatibility — with no new capability surface in view. Accessibility and payment reliability are recurring focus areas.
◆Prediction
Expect the same cadence of small, per-plugin maintenance releases to continue, with security hardening and gateway compatibility as the likely themes. Nothing in these entries signals a larger feature push.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3mo ago

    Event Tickets 5.27.6.1

    A maintenance release improving how Event Tickets handles the PayPal and Square failure endpoint, plus translation updates. Reliability housekeeping on the payment path.

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  2. 3mo ago

    The Events Calendar 6.15.20

    Fixes several 404s by improving AJAX pagination for server-side rendering, resolving paginated list views on MariaDB, and adding a URL-rewrite fallback for day view. Routine bug-fix work on the core calendar.

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  3. 3mo ago

    The Events Calendar 6.15.19

    Tightens capability checks for Venues, Organizers, categories, and Event Aggregator imports — security and data-integrity hardening. Non-trivial for admins on paper, but delivered as a standard maintenance patch with no user-facing change.

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  4. 3mo ago

    Event Tickets 5.27.6

    Strengthens attendee-data access controls in Event Tickets, alongside translation updates. Part of the suite's ongoing security-and-stability maintenance stream.

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  5. 3mo ago

    Community 5.0.15

    Restores featured-image editing for submitted events in the Community add-on, plus minor tweaks and translations. A targeted regression fix.

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  6. 3mo ago

    The Events Calendar 6.15.18

    Improves Elementor compatibility (preventing errors and missing CSS) and URL handling for non-ASCII languages. Compatibility maintenance consistent with the suite's steady-stewardship cadence.

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