A major advantage of the events calendar plugin is the ability to reuse items like venue or organizers as this reduces the time to add events. The acceptance of an events calendar by the users increases a lot.

Therefore a function to add and reuse the data of a band would be great. Here are some ideas how this could look

Fields needed for creating:

- Name
- Description
- Photo (Upload)
- Address
- ZIP
- City
- Country
- Website
- Telephone
- Name and instrument of the artists (as a list where as many as needed can be added)
Optional:
- Name of CDs or Videos

Functions on the website:
- Show all events of a band
- Link from the events of band to the band page

Here is an example how others use it:
http://www.jazz-kalender.de/Jazz_Band_Konzerte.asp?ID=HF22U64A

The creation of an alternative list of states would serve all users to create a list of your Country Provinces and thus can even limit state is directed to the Calendar Eventes and that Country .

Eg . I live in Spain in the province of Navarra and just want to include events from my province and bordering this would be in Spain ( Gipuzkoa , La Rioja , Zaragoza, Alava,
Huesca ) and France (Pyrenees-Atlantiques , Hautes Pyrenees ) .

Since other lists Countries already implemented , I select :
ES, Spain
FR, France

With an alternative list of provinces would select :
31, Navarra
01, Alava
20, Gipuzkoa
22, Huesca
50, Zaragoza
64, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
65, Hautes Pyrenees

This would be an example of the United States, the state of Nebraska , and I just want to have events held in the state of Nebraska and adjoining states marrow , Colorado , Kansas , Missouri, Wyoming, Iowa and South Dakota .

With an alternative list of states would select :
NE, Nebraska
CO, CO
SD, South Dakota
IA, Iowa
KS, Kansas
MO, Missouri
WY, Wyoming

This creates a filter for possible event from other states.

Besides that for users in other countries than the U.S. can create custom lists of States , Provinces, Departments or whatever they call in their respective countries .

At the moment if you add an event calendar widget to a widget area from the post itself, using a plugin such as Page Widgets (http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-page-widget/), the category selector doesn't work, because, not expecting to be loaded on the post edit screen, it doesn't load all its scripts.

This can be fixed if you want to make your plugin compatible, by modifying line 18 of /events-calendar-pro/lib/widget-calendar.class.php from

if ( $hook != ‘widgets.php’ )

to

if ( $hook != ‘widgets.php’ && $hook != ‘post.php’ )

Now everything works. I realise that if you were to implement this you’d want to either detect the Page Widgets plugin and add this line if it is found (so as not to load the scripts needlessly), or alternatively add a tick box in your options along the lines of “Enable Page Widgets compability”, which would add this bit. I'll leave that with you!

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 all would be fixed, by adding 1 simple option: only show first occurrence of an event in admin interface.