Author: Joe Dolson

Since adding the notification in My Calendar 3.4 that editing CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is going away, a few people have had questions about what’s happening. Users want to know how this change impacts them, and why I’m doing it. So I should talk about that a little. This is a significant change, but don’t think of it as an alarming update. I’ll first discuss what happens with CSS in the plugin right now and why that’s a problem for […]

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It’s nearly a month later than I’d hoped for, but I’ve just released My Calendar version 3.4.0. As with every major release, there are some significant changes in this update. A lot of the big changes are under the hood. The last release updated the processes of creating and administering events, but this release is more subtle. This release refactored how settings are saved in the database, added a couple new options for viewing the calendar on the front end, […]

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I did this last year, so why not turn it into a tradition? One of my goals for 2023 is to do more writing, so this is as good a place as any to get started. I organized things topically for 2021, so I’ll stick with that. WordPress Contributions I made only 32 commits to WordPress core in 2022, but that included fixing some important accessibility issues, so I feel reasonably accomplished with that. I continue to focus primarily on […]

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I’ve been hard at work getting ready for my annual major release. This year’s update to My Calendar won’t have a lot of spectacular features or major interface changes – but it’s pretty heavy on prep work for future changes in My Calendar Pro and for My Calendar 3.5. Download the release candidate View the list of commits since v3.3.24.1 Changes in My Calendar 3.4.0 One of the key changes is a refining the way that options and defaults are […]

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On January 15th, 2023, permanent plugin licenses are going to cease to be available from my plugin store. Any existing permanent license will be perfectly valid, and will remain unchanged, but I will no longer be offering permanent licenses for sale. This is something that’s been coming for a long time. I could probably afford to sell permanent licenses if I quadrupled the price – but that also makes any kind of budgeting almost impossible. Selling permanent licenses is not […]

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