XSS Vulnerability in Event Organiser and two extensions

Following a security audit of Event Organiser and its extensions, the plug-ins listed below have been found to contain a XSS vulnerability. A patch for each extension has been released. You are strongly encouraged to update. If you are unable to update the plug-in from within the admin dashboard, you can also download it manually …

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Event Organiser Pro 1.10.0-beta-2

Event Organiser Pro 1.10.0 has finally reached public beta. This update has long been tested in-house and running live on a number of sites as part of a closed beta. Subject to further tests, this release If you’re an existing customer and you wish to try out this version early, please get in touch to …

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Custom Times for Occurrences

An often requested feature is to have a recurring event whose occurrences may happen at different times. Currently you can define an initial event and can repeat that across days, weeks, months or years according to fairly complex rules. However, each occurrence is at the same time of day. Event Organiser 2.12.0 changes that – …

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Event Organiser & WordPress 4.2

Some background WordPress is undergoing a steady change of its underlying database schema as part of its roadmap to taxonomy meta and post relationships. This was announced in 2013, and since then ground has been made in that direction. WordPress 4.2 will be another step along that roadmap. Currently if you have two or more …

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Event Organiser 2.12.0 released

Event Organiser 2.12.0 was released today. It includes a number of bug fixes, including pre-emptive changes to ensure WordPress 4.2 compatibility. WordPress 4.2 compatibility WordPress 4.2 will introduce a breaking change. If you update to 2.12.0+ before or after updating to WordPress 4.2 (expected April 2015) then you shouldn’t encounter any problems. Although this issue …

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Stripe 2.0 & iCal 2.0 Updates

Today, along with more minor update Event Organiser 2.11.0 (post to follow), Event Organiser iCal 2.0.0 and Event Organiser Stripe 2.0.0 were released. The X.0.0 version numbers are typically reserved for major updates, and particularly when there have been potentially “breaking” changes (i.e. changes which are not backwards-compatible, or the plug-in’s behaviour has significantly changed …

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Style your Google map

Event Organiser 2.10.0 was released a couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to cover a very simple change included in that update but gives you much greater control over how Event Organiser’s (Google) maps appear on your site. That is support for Google map styles. Google Maps Styles property The Google maps styles property …

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VATMOSS – Price rises expected

You are probably aware of the recent VAT changes on sales of digital goods, due to take effect on the 1st January 2015. It is with great regret that in light of these changes, EU customers will effectively be subject to a price increase as of January 2015. What are the new EU VAT changes? …

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Using the Form API to add additional fields

This tutorial has been updated after Pro v1.10.0 release to account for improvements to the booking form API. It some cases it might not be desirable or convenient to add fields via the form customiser. This may be because you as the developer do no want the actual end user to be able to edit …

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Event Organiser 2.9.0

2.9.0 was released on the 16th September 2014 and brought some long-asked-for features, as well as a lot of tidying up and fixing of iCal feed generation & parsing, and as always additional unit tests to help keep development stable as we go ahead. Latitude/Longtitude editing You can now manually enter the latitude / longtitude …

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