The Events Calendar is a great plugin and very useful for a lot of situations. My one major suggestion so far is as follows:

It would be very helpful to add the "countdown to next event" functionality to the Countdown shortcode. The widget doesn't always fit into a sites design and having to update the current shortcode every time an event passes is quite cumbersome.

The shortcode can be styled using css to greater effect in some cases.

There was a functions.php code addition that someone added in the support forums for this in 2016 but it tends to break with updates once in a while now.

Thanks Tribe Team

Featured Image for Calendar Share

If you want to share your calendar on Social Media (like LinkedIn or Facebook) those sites will automatically pick up an image to display whether you like it or not.

At the moment there is no way to control that image in the Calendar settings. By default Facebook or Linkedin will just pick up the first available image from your website which in most cases, will have nothing to do with your Events Calendar.

All Tribe need to do is add the option in settings to upload an image you want to display when you are promoting your calendar on Social Media.

I would love to see a shortcode that scrobbles all event categories used (with filter parameters built in, of course) in much the same way that Wordpress can scrobble all post categories by default in a sidebar widget. Also, some kind of automated Javascript that gives you the option (maybe in the settings or back-end) to specify which pages you'd like to display the event category widget on (i.e. all event-related pages, everything under /event and /events) would be awesome.

I could definitely see the utility of this feature in other applications besides just a sidebar event categories widget, but that is my use case.

My background is in usability (I have a degree in Human Factors Psychology). One of the things that I was surprised not see in the calendar view was a set of links at the TOP of the calendar for previous/next months. I see them now at the bottom, but as a user looking to go to the next month, and with the bottom of the calendar cut off on my screen, I was confused for a bit when trying to figure out how to get to the next month.

It would be fine to have the links at the bottom, but they need to be at the top as well.

We've always felt that one of the weaker aspects of Event Calendar Pro is its communication capabilities. We’re currently unable to customize email messaging for each unique event. Additionally, our clients are unable to customize the standard confirmation email on their own due to their limited technical capabilities.

It would be extremely advantageous if there were a series of WYSIWYG editors/fields for users to create custom confirmation email messages and custom admin notification messages for each specific event.

Features should also include:

-Ability for the admin to send custom ad-hoc emails using a WYSIWYG editor

-Ability to send the aforementioned emails dependent upon registrant type

-Ability to attach files to confirmation emails

-Ability to automatically update registrants of event changes (already in development I hear)

-SMS notification (already requested)

-Event reminders (already in development I hear)

-Ability to identify a custom recipient for admin notifications

-Ability to manage email template designs

-Email log tracking communication

I purposefully included features that have previously been discussed because I feel it’s important for your communication options to be comprehensive and all inclusive. Reviewing the forums and feature requests, you can see individuals requesting elements of the above. Rather than designing each element individually over time, it may be more advantageous to take into consideration the entire communication strategy to ensure optimal usability.

I am part of a nationwide franchise that has a co-op website for public events. There's a feature that we on on THAT calendar that is INCREDIBLE for recurring events as well as being very flexible for custom date rules.

We can, much like this one, select various rules such as every 1st Wednesday of the month, or every other Tuesday, etc.

However, when we edit an event, date picker calendars will pop up with every day/date the event is scheduled for. We can simply click on a date to remove ONE or MORE of the current scheduled events, AND we can also simply click on additional dates where that event should be scheduled.

I think it's a VERY GENIUS way to adding events to the calendar that have complicated rules. It's MUCH easier than having to fight the rules when you have some events that have small quarks in their schedule... example.. our local chamber of commerce has morning networking meetings on every last Wednesday of the month, except for 2 months, December, and August, they're on a Thursday, and a Tuesday in the 2nd week. IT would be SO easy to set the primary rule, and the open the picker and simply move those two events to a different date.

Currently, the way rules work are very complicated and confusing to many of my visitors, as well as me.