Feature Ideas
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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.
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users re-print tickets from user login area
Hi, very simple one...
I would like users to be able to print tickets from their own admin area. This would ensure that when they don't get the tickets first time (which happens one ever few hundred ticket orders we get) we can just direct them to their account to re-download/re-send and print the tickets instead of coming to us...
This could be in the form of resend email, download tickets as pdf, whatever. As there is already user functionality for a login area with Woocommerce, and there is already the ability to send emails again from an order int…
24 votessolution provided ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
Check out our extension to do this at https://theeventscalendar.com/extensions/view-print-download-pdf-tickets/
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Shortcode > Featured Organizer
As well as having a tribefeaturedvenue shortcode it would be great if there was a featured organiser. I know you can create a list of organisers and venues using the shortcode plugin but I want specific results. Fingers crossed
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Improved Support for Custom Taxonomies & Terms
Currently, creating a custom taxonomy for events leaves the resulting taxonomy/term listing page using a template other than the one from The Events Calendar (previously brought up here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/custom-taxonomy-template/)
I used the workaround to append ?posttype=tribeevents to the URL of the page to have it trigger the calendar to show.
Ideally, this should be more native than having to filter links to terms being applied to calendar to have the resulting page show the calendar.
6 votes -
Be able to send admin notifications for newly added events only
We get admin notifications when a user submits a new event. We also get them when they change a previously submitted event. Too many emails! It would be good to have an option to not get notifications for events which have already been published.
4 votes -
Show event dates in woocommerce order list
As asked here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/adding-event-date-event-name-to-woocommerce-order-list/
Hi there, I have seen in some other event/booking plug-ins that work with WooCommerce that the stored event date (some add the event name too) is displayed in the order list – in the part that displays the details of buyers like name, address, payment method AND event date.
Is there any chance to pick-up that stored information and display it in the WooCommerce order list? if not yet, any plans to implement this in the future?
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Improve the search suggestions in a location search bar so they appear "as you type".
A search suggestion in the location search bar needs improvement. Now the suggestions appear after the user hit "Find Events".
What is a reasoning behind suppressing google snappy suggestions as one types? (as you use theirs api?)
I have used your site as a test http://wpshindig.com/events/ so it is not the problem with my server.
The search suggestions would solve a lot of problems and requests reported here about misinterpretation of the city. It would also increase the user awareness on how the search should be phrased. On top of it it would feel more interactive and 21 century;) and…69 votesneeds more votes ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
Thanks for the suggestion. We are looking to improve the search results in a release after 3.10. So should help the results and then we can come back and consider this feature.
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Display the weather forecast for events 10 days out
You could have an option to show the weather for events 10 days out or less. Similar to how you are showing the location map. You could possibly use the weather.com api.
2 votessolution provided ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
Check out the following plugin: http://tourkick.com/shop/wordpress/tk-event-weather-the-events-calendar/
Thanks again for sharing the idea :-)
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Set default organizer per import feed
it would be great if we could set an Organizer for each feed. This way I could aggregate calendars from several sources while crediting those sources.
Thanks for your time!
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Add tribe_edit_category capability for user roles
Allow control of category capability as you do for venue, organizer, e.g. edittribeorganizer, so we can prevent editors from adding or changing calendar categories.
120 votes -
Option to display distance in filter bar as range slider
Like price filter, which have the option to select the price with the range slider, would be great to have the same option for the distance filter.
17 votes -
Make external event link a button or word instead
Where we can make a External Event link a button instead of the full external link. If the external link to the event is quite long it doesn't make a pleasant design. The long external links are ungly on their own in body content of a blog post. If we could use the words "link" or external website.
I also posted this to the WordPress forums.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-external-event-link-a-button-instead?replies=254 votessolution provided ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
This is a great idea- we can definitely see how making the link a word or button would be useful. So we wrote a tutorial to show you how! Check it out: http://m.tri.be/vs
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Timeline View/display events in a timeline
Add the ability to display event in a continuous timeline. Perhaps something like this - http://theme-fusion.com/avada/timeline-full-width/ for the type of layout
11 votesneeds more votes ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
This is a terrific idea. We have discussed laying out all events in a verical or horizonal list, such that you could stop up or left to view past events, and right or down to view future ones. We are keen to see how many people would like that ability. Thank you very much for sharing this!
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Integration with EventFul
Hello - new user of the plugin here. We are a large community of activists and bring together a number of events - so far Evenbrite plugin has been amazing.
I wonder if it would be possible to import from Eventful? They have a great accessible API and the monitor the fair use of this: http://api.eventful.com
The API is quite extensive. But in particular I'd like to search by keyword, location and venue.
Thanks!
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More detailed backend settings for events in main blog loop & rss feed
Requesting more settings for the backend feature "events in main blog loop", namely select options for:
1) ascending or descending event ordering
2) use either event start date OR event post date31 votessolution provided ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
We’ve got an extension available that will help you more closely manage your blog loop events: https://theeventscalendar.com/extensions/advanced-options-for-adding-events-to-the-main-blog-loop/
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Event Redirect Link from Calendar
Add an option to redirect an event to a static page, post or external URL. Event shows in calendar grid and listings, but when the user clicks the event, they are immediately redirected to the destination URL.
This allows placing events into the calendar such as those managed by a third party, FB events, or recurring events that have a specific landing page and URL, and allows the user to immediately get to the correct page.
(Currently, we are doing this with a separate redirect plugin. Works, but it's extra plugin overhead.)
5 votessolution provided ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
That is a cool idea. We saw that request on occasion on our forums, so we wrote a snippet that will forward you to the event website URL if one is input:
https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/make-links-event-go-straight-event-website/Cheers!
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Selling Tickets with iThemes Exchange
I would love to see Modern Tribe work with iThemes to create integration with iThemes Exchange for selling tickets to events. Any chance this could happen in the future?
12 votes -
Make Organizer Phone Number tel: links that can open a phone application
Help us make this option easy for our clients to add clickable phone numbers on mobile devices.
Add ability to insert code <a href="tel:123-456-7890">(123) 456-7890</a> instead of just a phone # throughout EventsPro & TicketsWooCommerce
Great product!
6 votessolution provided ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
We’ve made a tutorial so that you can make any venue or organizer telephone numbers into clickable links! Check it out: http://m.tri.be/18ev
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Show post-author and categories in main blog loop
The post-author and categories should also be shown for events, which are shown in the main blog loop (just like regular posts).
12 votes -
Create add-on with Brown Paper Tickets (brownpapertickets.com)
Connect with Brown Paper Tickets (brownpapertickets.com) in a similar manner to your existing eventbrite functionality.
7 votes -
Make the Organizer's Email Address a Clickable Mailto Field
It would be a useful feature to be able to email an event organizer by clicking on their email address.
3 votessolution provided ·AdminThe Events Calendar (Product Owner, The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe) responded
Good news! We’ve made a tutorial so that you can make the organizer email a mailto link with a quick snippet. Check it out! http://m.tri.be/18f4
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