Vieww Events Calendar – Recurring Events, Event Map & Calendar Plugin

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2.5.0

• NEW: Monthly recurring events — repeat on a chosen day of the month (for example, the 13th of every month). Months that don’t have that day, such as the 31st in February, are skipped.
• NEW: Monthly events can also repeat on a weekday pattern — for example the second Tuesday, or the last Friday, of every month.
• NEW: Recurring events can repeat every few months (for example every second month), not only every month.
• NEW: Recurring events now take a start and end time. Set it once and the time shows on every occurrence across the list, calendar and single-event views.
• IMPROVEMENT: The event editor has a new „Repeats” control — Does not repeat, Weekly, or Monthly — so one-off and recurring events are clearer to set up.
• NEW: Designed single-event pages — each event now has its own styled layout with the date and time, a plain-language recurrence summary („the second Tuesday of every month”), the next upcoming dates, an add-to-calendar button, venue details and a location map. Copy single-vieww-event.php into your theme to customise.
• FIXED: Design settings (colours, fonts, spacing) now apply on the front end. Previously they were saved in the admin but never rendered on the site; the calendar, list, grid and single views all follow your design page now.
• FIXED: Dark Mode stays readable on light themes. The calendar, list, grid and single-event views now sit on their own dark background, so text and buttons no longer wash out when Dark Mode is On — or Auto with the visitor’s device in dark mode.

2.4.5

• IMPROVEMENT: WordPress.org listing rewritten — live demo and documentation links, Vieww-suite cross-links, Google-Maps-API-key and data-ownership FAQs, benefit-led short description. Troubleshooting/debug FAQ content moved to the documentation site.

2.4.4

• TESTED: Confirmed compatible with WordPress 7.0.

2.4.3

• NEW: WordPress.org listing now ships with screenshots — the interactive month calendar and a single event page. Screenshot captions rewritten to match.

2.4.2

• IMPROVEMENT: External Services section condensed to one line per service while keeping the required wp.org disclosure.
• IMPROVEMENT: Removed the Developer Notes section from the public listing — internal architecture detail isn’t useful for site owners browsing the directory.

2.4.1

• IMPROVEMENT: Plugin description and listing rewritten to focus on what site owners and visitors get out of the calendar, rather than internal architecture.
• NEW: Plugin icon added.

2.4.0

• FEATURE: Structured location fields — split the single Location/Venue input into Venue Name, Street Address, Suburb, State, and Postcode for consistency with sibling Vieww plugins.
• FEATURE: Click-to-fill autocomplete — typing into Street Address shows Photon (komoot.io) suggestions; selecting one populates Suburb / State / Postcode / Latitude / Longitude in a single click. If Photon returns a named landmark and Venue Name is empty, the venue name is filled too (user-typed values are never overwritten).
• FEATURE: Geocoding now uses structured Nominatim queries from the new fields directly — more accurate and predictable than parsing a freeform string.
• FEATURE: Branded archive template (archive-vieww-event.php) renders the calendar at /events/ by default, with a friendly „No upcoming events” empty state when there’s nothing to show — replacing the theme’s generic „Sorry, but nothing was found” page.
• IMPROVEMENT: Calendar prev/next/Today now swap the visible month in place instead of full-reloading the page, so embedding pages (e.g. Elementor canvases) keep their width and layout.
• IMPROVEMENT: Calendar nav uses replaceState rather than pushState — the browser back button returns to the page you came from, not through every month you visited.
• IMPROVEMENT: Default Dark Mode setting is now „Auto” (follows system preference) for new installs, with extra coverage for the event-time strip inside calendar event chips.
• FIX: Calendar prev/next URLs no longer leak between embedding pages. The cached HTML used to bake in the rendering page’s URL, so a calendar embedded on one page could send visitors to another. URLs are now built from the current document at click time.
• FIX: Calendar buttons (prev/next/Today/filter) now follow the plugin’s design-settings colour palette instead of inheriting Elementor’s global accent/primary colours, which on some sites rendered the nav arrows green and the Today button blue.
• FIX: Addresses with both a unit keyword AND a slash (e.g. Unit 5/123 Main St) no longer lose the street number during geocoding — coordinates resolve to the actual street, not the suburb centroid.
• MIGRATION: Existing event_location values are best-effort split into Venue Name + structured address on first load. The original value is retained as a display fallback for entries that didn’t parse cleanly.

2.3.0

• FEATURE: Event venue geocoding — automatically populates latitude/longitude from the Location/Venue field on save, with a fallback chain for Australian unit-style addresses
• FEATURE: „Geocode Now” button on the event edit screen for instant lat/lng preview with visible feedback
• FEATURE: Venue autocomplete via Photon (OpenStreetMap) — typeahead dropdown on the Location/Venue field, preserving user-typed unit prefixes and house numbers
• FEATURE: Single-event location map injected via the_content when an event has coordinates
• FEATURE: New [vieww_events_map] shortcode — renders all upcoming geocoded events on an interactive Leaflet map with clustering
• IMPROVEMENT: New REST meta fields event_lat and event_lng exposed via the WordPress REST API
• IMPROVEMENT: Admin-only empty-state banner prompts editors to geocode listings when none yet have coordinates

2.2.0

• FEATURE: Frontend event search – filter list view events by title, description, or location
• FEATURE: Google Fonts integration – 15 Google Fonts available in Design Settings
• FEATURE: Dark mode support – off, auto (system preference), or always on
• FEATURE: Mobile swipe gestures – swipe left/right to navigate calendar months
• FEATURE: Gutenberg blocks – 3 server-side rendered blocks for the block editor
• FEATURE: REST API support – event meta fields exposed via WordPress REST API
• FEATURE: iCal export and Google Calendar integration
• FEATURE: AJAX calendar navigation for smoother month browsing
• FEATURE: Event modal popups with add-to-calendar links
• PERFORMANCE: Rendered HTML caching with version-counter invalidation
• PERFORMANCE: Per-request instance deduplication for recurring events
• SECURITY: Enhanced nonce verification and input sanitization throughout
• IMPROVEMENT: Admin meta box validation with real-time feedback
• IMPROVEMENT: Tabbed help documentation with persistent tab state
• IMPROVEMENT: Dismissable onboarding welcome page

2.1.1

• RELEASE: Initial WordPress.org release – Full-featured free version
• MAJOR: Removed ACF dependency – now completely self-contained with native WordPress meta boxes
• FEATURE: Recurring events – set events to repeat on specific days
• FEATURE: Design customization system with colors, typography, and spacing controls
• FEATURE: Three beautiful display views (grid, list, calendar)
• FEATURE: Mobile modal popups and calendar/list view toggle
• FEATURE: Getting started dashboard and help documentation
• SECURITY: Full nonce verification, input sanitization, and output escaping
• SECURITY: WordPress 6.9 compatibility and coding standards compliance
• PERFORMANCE: Advanced caching system with transient storage
• PERFORMANCE: Iteration safeguards to prevent infinite loops
• Complete plugin restructure with organized class files, separated CSS, and i18n support

2.0.0

• Added calendar month view
• Improved caching system
• Added admin interface for cache management
• Performance optimizations

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Grid and list views
• Basic caching functionality