4.2

2016-06-08 Feature7 Tweak18 Deprecated1 Fix1 Accessibility3

Features

  • Added Google Maps API key field in the Settings tab to avoid map timeouts and errors on larger sites (Thanks to Yan for reporting this!)
  • Added support for featured image, multiple organizers, excerpt and more custom fields in the .csv file import function for events (Thank you to Graphic Designer for posting on UserVoice!)
  • Added support for featured image, description, map details and more custom fields in the .csv file import function for venues
  • Added support for featured image and description in the .csv file import function for organizers (Thank you to Rebecca for posting on UserVoice!)
  • Added an oEmbed template for events
  • Improve performance of a query used to determine if there are free/uncosted events (Thank you @fabianmarz for the pull request!)
  • Added support for attaching custom post types to events

Tweaks

  • Improved filtering of the tribe_event_featured_image() function (Cheers to @fabianmarz!)
  • Add an encoding class for the CSV importer to prevent non utf8 characters from preventing imports (Thanks to screenrage for the report!)
  • Improved our JSON-LD output to ensure consistency (Props to @garrettjohnson and Lars!)
  • Language files in the wp-content/languages/plugins path will be loaded before attempting to load internal language files (Thank you to user aafhhl for bringing this to our attention!)
  • Switch to HTTPS for the "Powered by The Events Calendar" link (Thank you Cynthia for reporting this!)
  • Switch to using HTTPS by default for interactions with Google Maps API
  • Improved filterability of calendar excerpts by introducing the new tribe_events_get_the_excerpt filter hook
  • Improved filtering of organizer details when importing by CSV (Props to @Geir for bringing this up!)
  • Adjustments for single event view in Twenty Fifteen theme
  • Improved performance of query used to test for events without any cost
  • Added missing semicolon to a laquo (Props to mwender on GitHub for the fix!)
  • Improve the "stickiness" of CSV import column mappings (Thank you @jamesgol!)
  • Consistency of JSON-LD markup improved (Cheers to @garrettjohnson for the help!)
  • Avoid notice-level errors when working with WP CLI on a site where The Events Calendar is also active (Thanks to @sun)
  • Corrected the spelling of timezone in the CSV Importer's event field
  • Updated venue and organizer templates to use the new architecture for attaching custom post types to events
  • Move plugin CSS to PostCSS
  • Category default view is now set to default in place of hardcoding the current default view in the category base rewrite rule [31907]

Deprecateds

  • Tribe__Events__PUE__Checker, Tribe__Events__PUE__Plugin_Info, and Tribe__Events__PUE__Utility classes are deprecated and are replaced by Tribe__PUE__Checker, Tribe__PUE__Plugin_Info, and Tribe__PUE__Utility classes

Fixes

  • Changed the use of have_posts() in the maybe iCal links for the main views that could cause an infinite loop

Accessibilitys

  • Focus styles added for search fields
  • Add ARIA labels for Month/Day/List sub nav
  • Add ARIA label for events footer sub nav heading