Feature Ideas
Hey there and welcome to our feature request forum for The Events Calendar, Event Tickets and all of the premium plugins we develop provide on TheEventsCalendar.com!
We’re always looking for new and awesome ways to improve our products. We think they’re pretty great out of the box, but we also know that there are often things that could make them even better for how folks like yourself use them in the real world. Our tools help the right people, get to the right place at the right time. How can we improve our products and make them super awesome for you and your users? That’s where we can use your help!
If there are features that our products do not currently support but you think would be a huge added value for you and lots of other people, then please share them here with us. The submission form will walk you through a few quick questions to get the ball rolling.
Before posting your idea, here are a few tips that will help make your request stand out and succeed:
- Look to see if someone else has suggested the same idea, or something very similar. Many ideas are being submitted and it’s very possible that another request already exists. In that case, add your vote to the existing request.
- Be as descriptive as possible. What does the feature do? Where would it be located? Who would use it? How does this improve the overall experience of managing an events calendar in WordPress?
- Use mockups, if possible. Pictures are worth a thousand words and having a visual often brings a greater level of clarity to an idea.
Please not, this is not a place to get support or ask questions about how the plugin works. If you need help, please visit our help desk. If you use our free core plugin, you can post in our forum on WordPress.org.
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Exclude past events from the main wordpress search results.
I want to exclude past events from the main wordpress search results. I found others with the same request.
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Add a "redo search when map moved" feature similar to yelp.com's search results page
When moving or zooming the map it'd be great to have an option to have the list underneath the map refresh to only show the events relevant to what's being displayed in the map. For an example of this just see yelp.com's search results.
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Export to outlook calendars
Export to outlook calendars! Most of our users use Microsoft outlook and it would be helpful to have that feature with iCal and Google
82 votes -
Have Calendar Widget show next 5 events regardless of month
in the calendar widget there are "only" shown events that are in the future of the current month. (I selected to show 5)
but if there are events in the following months and not in the present, it does only show the calendar, but not the next events.
sure, if I "switch" the month in the widget to another month, the events of this future or past month are shown, but the customers are lazy, they want to have it like:
when calling the site, show the X(5 in my case) upcoming events and only if i switch to future…54 votes -
Add 'today' option to the admin page filter
At the Filters & Columns area of the Events admin page, the user may add a 'Start date' filter and save it. This is convenient for future use. It would be even better to give the saved filter the ability to use today's date as a parameter.
But when choosing the start date 'date' from the dropdown calendar, there is no option to choose 'today' as the date. Another solution may be to add 'On and After Today' and 'On and Before Today' to the 'Start Date' dropdown menu.
48 votes -
Month View > Have multi-day events 'span' the consecutive days rather than individual entries each day
Google and Outlook do this in their calendars and it helps make the 'calendar' view more user friendly to see one block that spans 3 days rather than 3 individual entries for the same event
123 votesWe’ve started work on some updated design elements, including having multi-day events span the duration of the event ala Google Calendar.
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Display search results in list view when month is default view
When doing a keyword search when month/calendar view is default, it would be much more user friendly to display a list if search results of all future events rather than just searching and displaying those (if any) in the current month and having to scroll through.
100 votes -
Show amount of events for each pin marker in Map View
For now if i have many events in one place, i only have on point. It could be nice to show in some way that this is a multi events place.
157 votessolution provided ·
AdminModern Tribe
(Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe)
responded
We’ve got an extension that allows you to show all the event tickets at a given location in map view. Check it out! https://theeventscalendar.com/extensions/google-maps-multiple-events-same-venue/
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Allow users to Subscribe to Calendar via email
Allow users to subscribe to the Events Calendar, so that they can receive an email informing them of upcoming events.
194 votesHowdy folks,
Thanks for all the votes and feedback regarding this subscription/newsletter idea. It is something we have talked about a lot as a result of your feedback.
The author of Events Calendar Newsletter, a third party plugin, just wrote an excellent tutorial regarding integrating that plugin with The Events Calendar so folks can subscribe to your calendar. It covers sending out event based newsletters, possible ways to add a subscribe button to your site, and so forth. It seems ideally suited to the folks requesting this feature. :) We have heard nothing but good things from the users of this Newsletter plugin and wanted to share this possible 3rd party solution with y’all that’s available now.
Cheers!
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Make it possible to print calendar
For folks who send out calendars via PDF or need to make photocopies, it would be great to have a printable version.
299 votes -
Reorganize how recurring events show up only in admin area
My customer has a very large database of events (currently about 35.000). Many of them are recurring events, with quite some recurring over several weeks each day! This makes it hard:
- to identify the actual event (as in the understanding of our client the event is WHAT happens and not WHEN, so differentiation by dates and showing all of the does not make much sense
- to keep an overview of all current/coming events, as basically you have 1 same event there over several pages.
- edit the right (first occurrence) of the event, if something changes later.This…
66 votesWe’re exploring options for the admin as part of our upcoming recurrence work.
Also, we’ve got a new knowledgebase article with a snippet that allows you to hide extra recurring event instances in your admin view. Enjoy! http://m.tri.be/195w
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Provide a way to set an indeterminate time/TBA/TBD for events
An indeterminate time would be useful for placeholder-style events where the specific details aren't known. A plugin-level setting for the text to display, e.g. "TBA", would be nice too.
235 votes -
One event with multiple venues
If I have three venues that have the same event it would be nice to list all three venues instead of three events.
179 votesThank you guys so much for this idea, and explaining the various use cases where it would be helpful. This has been some tremendous feedback, and helps us understand how best to address your needs.
Some of you will benefit best from our upcoming templating feature, which would allow you to easily duplicate event details from one event to another while changing only the things that vary, such as a venue. Others will no doubt enjoy the ability to link arbitrary events together as one event series. This might be ideal for conventions and large events with multiple days and facilities. This too is an upcoming feature.
The rest would clearly enjoy the ability to have just one event with multiple venues, as you can do with organizers. Thanks to all of your excellent feedback this too is now a feature on our roadmap. It will likely be implemented as…
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Date Range Picker
You can only pick a start date with 3.0.
If you have many hundreds of events coming up, many of them at the same location, map view becomes an unwieldy mess.
I suggest, like Google Analytics, the option to pick a RANGE.
184 votes -
Jalali calendar instead of Gregorian calendar
Hi, it would be great to add Jalali and Hijri Calendar to the core as an option. because they use different types of date.
7 votes -
Duplicate Events
If we could copy and event to make a new one, it would save us from having to retype details that stay the same. The only thing we would have to change would be the date.
291 votessolution provided ·AdminModern Tribe
(Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe)
responded
Thanks for the votes here. Multiple users report successfully using a third-party plugin to duplicate events. You’ll need to look for a plugin that can duplicate Custom Post Types. There is even third-party plugin meant specifically for our products :-)
Check it out: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-tec-event/
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Add an XML importer
Enable importing events/venues/organizers via XML (either file or URL, preferably URL). Some great event feeds are available in XML only.
14 votes -
No end time option
Though most events have a start time, they often do not have a definate end time. Please add an option not to define an event end time.
73 votessolution provided ·AdminModern Tribe
(Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe)
responded
Good idea! I definitely see how this would be useful for you. One way you can already achieve this is to set the end time of the event to the same as the start time. Only the one time will show, so List View looks something like this (http://d.pr/i/FhYb) and the single event page looks like this (http://d.pr/i/hRxR). However, this doesn’t work if you use the Week View, as the event doesn’t show any time span.
If you want to remove the end time for all of your events, you can use this snippet: https://gist.github.com/ckpicker/75fecbc6209538b1daf2
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Year View
I have had users asking for a year view -- for planning purposes. They are able to go from month to month, but occasionally events run over month lines they lose concentration clicking from month to month. Plus, it does give an over-all view when making assessments and yearly time considerations.
Plus, it seems like it might be a fairly easy addition -- just a screen shot of all the months together.42 votesThank you guys so much for your feedback. Work on this is about 50% complete.
However, when we reanalyzed our priorities we realized that some of our new features, like year view, should be put on hold for now to make time for some higher impact endeavors. We are currently focused on bug fixes, architecture improvements, and polishing our current UI. While these improvements are not as “flashy” as new features like year view, they are helping a significantly greater portion of our users than this sort of new feature. Thus, we have to focus on these for a while longer. Once those tasks are complete we will have some extra time for exciting things like finishing year view.
Cheers!
- The Modern Tribe Support Team -
Sorting for additional Fields
Id like to be able to move where the field appears in the backend instead of the newest item always being last.
For example I had a client ask me to add times to the opening acts. There were already 3 opening acts set up within the calendar with different atributes for each.
Since each new time atribute matched with an opening artist I made sense to group it with that artist like the rest of the atributes, not have all the times at the end of the list so I had to re-input all the opening acts.
28 votes
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