Category: News

EM Connect – WhatsApp, Telegram and SMS Integration

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our newest add-on, Events Manager Connect—a game-changer for anyone looking to streamline communication with event attendees. This powerful tool integrates directly with popular messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Twilio SMS/WhatsApp, allowing you to automate and manage event communication like never before. This add-on is available to […]

New Pricing – Happening Soon!

Upcoming Price Changes Effective Next Week: Here’s What You Need to Know We have an important update for our Events Manager community regarding our previously announced pricing changes. After several months of delays and careful consideration, we are now ready to move forward with the new pricing structure, which will take effect next week. Why […]

Events Manager 6.6 and Pro 3.4

We are excited to announce the release of Events Manager 6.6 and Pro 3.4! This update brings several new features and improvements that enhance your event management experience, focusing on telephone contact gathering and communications consent. The focus on international phone number fields and communications consent options lays the foundation for upcoming integrations with messaging […]

Phone Numbers and Consent – Ready for Testing!

We’ve just updated dev versions Events Manager 6.5.3 and Pro 3.3.2. We don’t usually announce dev versions, but we’d like to give the opportunity for testers over the coming days whilst we follow-up with other related feature. These updates also include various bugfixes for our latest booking table updates, and we advise you to update […]

Events Manager 6.5.2

We’ve followed up with 6.5.2 as more issues have emerged after the release of our latest 6.5 update. With such a large revamp and the multitude of possible setting combinations, many of these issues were not replicated in our tests. Thanks for your patience, and we’re hoping now the major issues are now out of […]

6.5 Take 2 – 6.5.1 and Pro 3.3.1

We have released a follow-up update to our bookings table revamp for both Events Manager and Events Manager Pro, which fixes various issues introduced with the new features. Additionally, here’s a video to demonstrate the new features! Notable Changes One fix is related to the ‘Ticket Spaces’ column, which displays the number of spaces booked […]

Events Manager 6.5 & Pro 3.3

We’re very happy to announce Events Manager 6.5 and 3.3, which include a MAJOR rewrite of our booking admin tables, including full-support for the front-end bookings admin area. Under the hood, this was a massive undertaking, which started as an attempt to replicate the somewhat-recently revamped booking admin tables available in the WP Dashboard area […]

Shortcode Security Updates

Since version 6.4.8, some security fixes were implemented that runs the wp_kses() function on any shortcode supplying format, format_header and format_footer parameters. This was due to a vulnerability report we received from the WordFence security team. Am I Affected? If you use shortcodes with formatting, or if you allow users to submit publishable content (which […]

FALSE POSITIVE – Avast Anti-Virus Security Threats

[June 3rd 19:40 UTC] Earlier today (June 3rd), we were alerted to the fact that Avast AVG, a popular Anti-Virus software (specifically the Windows version) was incorrectly alerting its users of a potential Trojan virus in our included JavaScript file, events-manager.min.js. This is a minified version of the events-manager.js file that controls all front-end UI […]

Introducing new pricing

Update – We’ve extended this promotional period whilst we transition various technical aspects related to these upcoming changes As we continually add new features and make improvements to Events Manager (both free and Pro) we periodically review our prices and plans to make sure they’re affordable, competitive and fair. In 2023, we added quite a […]