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Events Manager 2.2, security hole closed

Davide — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:26:00 +0000

Hello folks,
I just released Events Manager 2.2. It’s a minor upgrade, here is the changelog:

Added a option to get events through a select
Closed many bugs causing a notices/warning visible only in debug mode
Closed a critical security hole discovered by Danilo Massa (to be released on May 10th)

The first point is the only proper feature, it allows you to use a select for the events venue. It’s something that comes in handy for people/organizations whose events take place in the same venues all the times.

The second point is something I should have done AGES ago. I put Worpress in debug mode and thus could see all the stuff that’s usually spitted directly into the error log. There were many small bugs, caused mainly by the lack of isset here and there. I believe there are still minor notice/warnings, but I got rid of most of them.

Point three is what urged me to release ASAP. Danilo Massa kindly notified me of a security hole in Events Manager, providing a simple one-liner to fix it. Since the vulnerability is pretty serious I hurried to apply Danilo’s patch and release 2.2.

This release is quite stable, it’s employed in a client portal, so you should have no problem with the upgrade.

Enjoy,
Davide

Events Manager 2.1

Davide — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:54:59 +0000

Hello folks,
just a short note to announce the release of Events Manager 2.1.
It’s probably not as stable as the lack of a or b would suggest, but it is definitely much stabler than the previous version. Also, I got tired of letters.

Here’s the changelog:

Properly added Marcus Sykes as a contributor
Added a full calendar
Added an #_EDITEVENT placeholder
Added Brazialian Portuguese localization and some translatable strings
Added a today scope for events lists
Increased to 3 te default lists limit
Categories are now displayed in the events table
Now weeks starts according to WP settings
Moved the hide page option up for better access
Attributes column was not created when the plugin was upgraded, fixed
Added comment field to the RSVP form and #_COMMENT placeholder in RSVP email templates
Added customizable title to small calendar
Removed php short tags
Changed RVSP ‘no seats available message’ for better English
Bugfix: there was a time bug
Bugfix: event_time not taken into consideration in ordering events, fixed
Bugfix: on calendar for days after 28 on the event calendar view
Bugfix: for events in days with single digit
Bugfix: events link in the calendar now work with permalink
Bugfix: today in next mont was not matched in the calendar
Bugfix: _RESPPHONE was not matched in emails
Bugfix: fixed security vulnerability, which could lead to sql inject attacks
Bugfix: locations with apostrophe were duplicated
Bugfix: bloginfo(‘wpurl’) instead of bloginfo(‘url’)
Bugfix: now loading textdomain in the new (not deprecated) way

Most of the bugfixes, and some of the features, were sponsored by Sara of Paperlantern, to whom I am most grateful.

Also, I just got a haircut:

Cheers,
Davide

Events Manager comments disabled

Davide — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:06:56 +0000

Hi folks,
just a quick note for warning that comments on EM are going to be disabled for a while.
Why?
Despite a disclaimer at the beginning of the post and a huge banner people is posting support problems as comments, instead that on the forum. I guess I should increase the banner size of make it flashy with JS.
As soon as I have some time (not that sooinish) I’ll clean the thread and leave only relevant comments (pre-forum tweak suggestions and release announcements). And re-enable commenting.
For now comments are closed. Use the forum, PLEASE!
Davide

Say hello to Marcus AKA netweblogic

Davide — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:21:09 +0000

Great news for all ye Events Manager fans. Let us all say hello to Marcus Skyes that jumped on board, and is now co-authoring Events Manager.

Marcus contacted me a few weeks ago, sending a modded version of Events Manager. As soon as I gave it a try I realised that Marcus had done a wonderful job patching and integrating new features into EM.

Thanks to Marcus’s work now we have a number of frequently requested features:

WP 2.8 support
Events Categories
WYSIWYG editor for events description (and you can add pictures too!)
multi-day events, kinda

And much more.¹

Since Marcus is expanding the plugin for some of his gigs, I invited him to co-author Events Manager, and I am glad he accepted.

I just tagged EM 2.0rc2 with Marcus’s integration, hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.

Download EM 2.0rc2

Davide

Notes

Since these features are not yet fully documented, I suggest you take a look at the change log in the readme for instructions.

Teaser: Events Manager 2.0 for Worpress

Davide — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:34:43 +0000

Ladies and gentleman,
it’s time for an official announcement. Among my 21 feed readers I am sure there’s at least a couple of Events Manager aficionados. I have very very good news for them.

Events Manager 2.0 is almost ready for a public beta and it sports a number of fancy new features:

Location Management with images for the locations and a new multiple locations map
Respondez s’il vous plait. Reservations can be enabled for each event.
Recurring/repeated events. Yes, finally! Events can now be planned on a weekly or monthly bases, or simply in consecutive days.

Events Manager 2.0 is still under development, but I will issue a stable beta in a couple of weeks. I will announce the beta release in this blog, with a post that will showcase the new features and give my sponsors‘ the credit they deserve.
Meanwhile, stay tuned!