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We’re happy to announce that The Events Calendar 5.10.0 officially released just moments ago. This release features features updates that help when you have no current events. These features include a “fast forward” link to see events in the future and a “Recent Past Events” view to see your most recent events instead of seeing an empty calendar.
This is a minor release that should be smooth sailing when updating. That said, it’s always a good idea to backup your site and test changes in a development environment before installing this on your live site, as you would with any other WordPress update.
So, what’s new in this release? Glad you asked, because I was getting to the change log:
- Feature – We have added a “fast forward” link to both the Month and Day views when there are no events to show, which allows users to see future events more easily.
- Feature – We added
tribe_events_views_v2_use_ff_linkandtribe_events_views_v2_{$this->slug}_use_ff_linkfilters to allow for control of the “fast forward” link. - Feature – We created “Recent Past Events” views that can be utilized when there are no upcoming events to display in the calendar.
- Tweak – We have improved meta data handling with the Block editor.
- Tweak – Select2 3.5.4 is now deprecated in favor of SelectWoo.
- Tweak – We now load plugin text domain on the new
tribe_load_text_domainsaction hook, which fires oninitinstead of on theplugins_loadedhook. This allows for custom translations to be loaded correctly. - Tweak – We added a constant
TRIBE_CACHE_VIEWSto turn off HTML caching in calendar views. - Fix – Using theme-related templates as the Events Template no longer triggers a WordPress database error.
- Fix – Selecting other page templates from Settings → Display now loads the correct template for displaying events.
- Fix – We’re preventing redirects from the updated calendar views to be too broad because they had been catching requests from other plugins. This was reported by the GravityView team as a bug with Gravity Forms plugin imports.
- Fix – This fix prevents PHP errors from happening during bulk activation or deactivation of the plugin.
- Fix – We resolved an issue with iCal links on month view for months other than the current one, so that the correct one is exported.
- Fix – We have corrected a few text domain typos.
- Fix – We now ensure that search keywords carry over when changing views and in the top-bar navigation.
- Fix – This fix prevents the Block editor from throwing a browser alert when leaving the page without any changes applied to the edited post.
- Fix – Several strings have been adjusted for consistency and better translatability.
- Hook – We added the
tribe_events_blocks_editor_is_onfilter, which will remove the “save” prompt if trying to leave the Block Editor screen. - Tweak – We added some filters for better control of link targets, standardizing the way we create those links. This allows for the capability to open a link in a new tab, if desired, with the help of an extension.
- Hooks – https://docs.theeventscalendar.com/reference/since/the.events.calendar5.1.0/
- Language –
4 new strings added, 286 updated, 1 fuzzied, and 2 obsoleted
Next up, we’re making progress on the next major feature release for The Events Calendar and can’t wait to get that out to you. In the meantime, please update safely as you would with any other WordPress, theme or plugin update and be sure to let us know if you run into any other issues.
We have a Known Issues page for you to reference so you can see what’s already on our radar for a fix.
Check out a detailed description of all of the changes in this release in our official release notes here 👉 https://theeventscalendar.com/release-notes/the-events-calendar/the-events-calendar-5-1-0/ 👈