We’re very happy to announce Events Manager 6.5 and 3.3, which include a MAJOR rewrite of our booking admin tables, including full-support for the front-end bookings admin area.

Under the hood, this was a massive undertaking, which started as an attempt to replicate the somewhat-recently revamped booking admin tables available in the WP Dashboard area and make it available in the front-end admin areas. This snowballed into something far bigger (and longer!) than we had planned, and what we are happy to finally push out in 6.5.

There’s so many changes that have taken place both visually and under the hood, it’s hard to summarize it into a release post! We’re working on a more comprehensive follow-up post to demo the new features.

For now, we invite you to just update and check it out! Here are some of the major new power-ups:

• Switch views to Tickets or Attendees and split records to ungroup bookings into individual sets of ticket bookings and/or Attendees!
• Sortable columns, including user meta (name, email etc.), ticket data (prices, spaces, etc.), booking meta (custom fields), attendee meta (custom fields).
• More powerful search capabilities, search attendee, user and booking meta.
• Quickly preview grouped data with tooltips in bookings tables:
  • For example, a booking with 2 ticket types can display both tickets (see screenshot).
• Switch views to Multiple Bookings mode (Pro feature), view all your Multiple Bookings.
• Responsive booking tables.
• Front-end support, including charts!
• Fine-grained export options, allowing splitting exports by view (ticket, attendee etc) and selecting any field for export.
• All booking tables including “events with bookings” and transaction tables revamped to use new table layout and features.
• Check In/Out shortcut actions (Pro feature) and a quick-reference check-in status column.
• Improved bulk action support.

Here’s a screenshot of how your admin area might look after the upgrade, hope you enjoy it

Pro Backwards Compatibility

Users running older versions of Pro may experience inconsistent display and export results when upgrading to 6.5, and will not benefit from some of the new features which were updated in Pro 3.3.

We aim to take all possible measures to make our updates backwards-compatible. In most cases, this is possible, but unfortunately due to the huge overhaul in the infrastructure of how tables in general are now generated by Events Manager, incorporating all these features in an extendable and flexible manner, it simply wasn’t possible to transition earlier versions of Pro into the fold. Doing so would hinder the progress of development and innovation.

Over the 10+ years where Pro has been available, there have only been two major changes requiring a Pro upgrade, this will inevitably have to be the third.

Changelogs

Events Manager 6.5

Events Manager Pro 3.3