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Version 1.1 has been released!

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@mark211
We have a support forum at http://shabushabu.eu where we answer all support questions related to Buddyvents, so once you purchased the plugin you’d get access to the forums and get all the info you need to adjust Buddyvents.

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@whitbyglennk
There is no WP ethos of free software for all. With all the licensing discussions going on, most people have completely misunderstood what it was all about. Free (as in the GPL software license) only means that any further development of GPL software has to be published under the same license (if the software is being released) and that, once you have the software, you can do whatever you please with it. Free does not mean, though, that you can get access to this software without paying. It’s perfectly ok to charge for GPL software.

Most developers, who charge for a plugin or premium themes, still give back to the community by answering questions in forums or uploading other plugins and themes to the WP repository. For some plugins 50+ hours have been spent on development. That’s a lot of money and time right there, but people still expect not to pay anything.

I guess we’ll be seeing more and more paid plugins and themes crop up over the next year. It’s not a bad thing, it’ll give users more choice (there usually is a free alternative around somewhere) and if someone buys a plugin/theme, then afterwards you can expect great support, which does not always happen with a free plugin.

Just me 2 cents

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@mark211
There’s no option you can turn on or off, but it can all be done through template files and filters or actions.

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I have just integrated profiles into the dev version. There’s still some bits to do, like category views and feeds for users, but it’s ready to give a test whirl!

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Groups now get their own calendars, maps and category pages. In the works is the same for users, which means that the My Events page will disappear from the directory.

I have also published the readme file of v1.1. Please leave your feature requests there.

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I have just uploaded the latest dev version (v1.1) to http://test.shabushabu.eu

This includes categories, that are definable by the site admin in an all shiny ajax backend. It includes category pages and planned are also feeds for categories.

The start of the calendar can now be set to either monday or sunday and the sorting of events on the calendar has been improved and should make a larger amount of events more readable.

I haven’t written an upgrade routine yet, so I swiped the event database tables of the testsite clean. Will probably be available within a week.

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Notice to anybody interested in purchasing Buddyvents (price info can be found here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/new-events-plugin-testing-stage/?topic_page=5&num=15#post-75266):

You can find my email address here:
http://shabushabu.eu/imprint/ (no point in spreading my email address to all four corners of the virtual world, me thinks)

Pop me a mail and I’ll get a freshly printed copy to your inbox in no time.

We’re experiencing some problems with our shop Magento is a seriously awesome CMS for ecommerce, but getting it to run on a sub-domain (actually, sometimes, just getting it to run at all) might actually give you brain damage.

Anyways, the plugin is available, but for now we’ll have to do things the good ole-fashoned way… manually

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@web_art
The plugin can be fully translated, but I haven’t gotten round to translating it into German yet. To be honest, it’s quite low on my priority list, cause I only need it in English.

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@revolutionfrance
The plugin uses normal templates. There’s a block of code in the map template you can just copy/paste wherever you want and the map will show up there.

@guigoz
Cheers, got them and included them already. You’ll get a discount for that! Contact me by mail and we’ll sort things out.

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It’ll be 40 Euros net (47.60 gross). You’ll need a valid european VAT number or be situated outside the EU to get the net price (German customers will always have to pay the gross price). First we were gonna make it 25 for a single domain license, but the 40 grant you use for unlimited (own) domains. The code is GPL, so once you have it you can do whatever you want with it, but support is only given to users of the plugin who actually bought it.

Support will only be given on our forums at http://shabushabu.eu/. We have set up a hidden forum there where you will get access to after the plugin has been purchased. We’re also working on integrating Magento (our shop) and BuddyPress, but at the moment we’ll have to do that manually, so the whole registration process might take a bit longer than it should take.

The version of this release is 1.0 beta and you’ll receive support until we tag the plugin as 2.0, after which the plugin will have to be purchased again (depending on the added features we might raise the price, but existing customers get 50% off).

That’s about it

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@svenl77
My brother set up the shop with Magento and he thought it was ready until he played around with the paypal sandbox again and that didn’t work. Magento can be difficult at times (understatement of the year that is), but it makes annoying things, like tax stuff, a lot easier. You can find my email address here: http://shabushabu.eu/imprint/

Send me a mail and I’ll get the plugin to you today!

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In CSS a lot depends on when a style for a selector is defined. If .example is defined as having a black background, but later .example is defined again as having a red background, then the background is gonna be red. But if you add an !important rule to the first style, then the background is gonna be black. Adding the !important rule to the second style makes the background red again. Might be what’s missing here.

Also, delete your browser cache to make sure you don’t get a cached version of the page.

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First one is available out of the box and the second one can be done through plugins

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For now I have removed the autocomplete for locations as it was making too much trouble. Instead the location field gets prepopulated with the group address if the event is attached to a group.

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Yup, there are some problems with the autocomplete for locations. Mainly it’s the comma, which is a delimiter for a new autosuggest entry and that messes up things quite a bit. Looking for alternatives at the moment

I didn’t include the autosuggest on the edit page. Don’t see the point really. The event location won’t change that much, but you’re welcome to change my mind.

I’ll probably leave the images the way they are. At the moment the original image doesn’t even get saved. Just a 150×150 and a 50×50 thumb. I could put some more filters in place that let you write a new upload and display routine.

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I have moved the invitations onto their own page, so it’s not part of the event creation process anymore. After an event has been created the event admin is forwarded to the invitations page. If the event is public anybody can invite their friends. If it’s private only the admin. Same if the event is attached to a group and the status of that group is either hidden or private.

Our shop is finished now and I haven’t actually noticed any related problems when I moved from 1.2.5.2 to 1.2.6. It should be fine running it on either version, so the plugin will be available by tomorrow evening.

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@guigoz

I’ll have a look. It works on my local system. Anyways, I have added a page where users can invite their friends if the event is public and it’s not attached to a hidden or private group. It’s not been tested very well, so it’d be great if you want to give it a go

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@web_art
Data that has been entered does not get lost now when event creation fails and I’ve added autosuggest to the locations field as well. Both autosuggest fields (invitations and locations) are being handled by an AJAX call now. Altogether it’s a bit slower now because of the database calls it needs, but for large communities it’s just not feasable to fetch all locations and all friends beforehand.

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@web_art
1. not an error, just a usability problem I’ll fix that.
2. it was a typo in apply_filters and is fixed now

As for the group contact details. I’ll take those out in a future release and turn it into a separate plugin. I’m building a jobboard plugin as well and that uses the same fields, so in the next big release I’ll be reworking the whole group contact stuff

@guigoz
That’s something for another release, but it’s on the roadmap

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Alright, no idea what the problem was. Some kind of server problem. Anyways, I set up a new test site here running the latest dev version:
http://test.shabushabu.eu/

Anybody who registered before and wants to do more testing will have to register again. Sorry for that!
I’ll look more into why it stopped working on the first test site…

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Hmm, there seems to be a problem on the live server. Not sure what it is right now, but I’m investigating…

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@guigoz
The po file can be downloaded from here, so if you want to translate it, then go ahead
http://buddyvents.jobboardr.com/events.po

Just added recurrent events (weekly, monthly, yearly). It’s still a bit experimental, though.

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@Svenl77
I guess that ‘very very soon’ means tomorrow. Then you could get Buddyvents on Tuesday. I won’t be giving any support if Buddyvents runs on anything lower than BP 1.2.6 and WP 3.0.1, so it makes sense for me to wait for 1.2.6 now that it’s only a couple days or so. If you really need a copy by tomorrow, then I could get you a copy.

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Because of this post by Paul Gibbs I’ve decided to wait with the release. It seems BP 1.2.6 is imminent, so that’ll be the minimum version to run Buddyvents. I’ve gotten myself a copy of the latest 1.2.6 version and have started testing. You can expect Buddyvents a day after 1.2.6 has been out in the open.