Conference Scheduler

Conference Scheduler allows you to easily manage and display complex workshop schedules for conferences and similar events, and also provide information about the workshops on your website in a clean, searchable, responsive interface. Create and manage details about your workshops using the standard WordPress admin interface and display it all on any page of your site with a simple shortcode. Features

• Add and edit workshops in the standard WordPress admin
• Collects and displays important information about each workshop: workshop code, time, location, description, presenter, presenter bio, participant limit
• Add files to workshops - lets you easily distribute presentation files or other reference material
• Handles parallel sessions
• Optionally group workshops by location within a session
• Categorize workshops into streams and areas with tags
• Search and filter workshop listings on the front-end for easy access
• Pick workshops on the front-end so delegates can build their ideal conference schedule
• Customize the style of workshops easily using the WordPress customizer
• Responsive design means your schedule looks and works great on all devices - delegates can quickly pull out their phone at any time to check the schedule or workshop info
• Upgrade to Conference Scheduler Pro and you also get:
• Import/Export to/from Excel
• Complete user registration system with optional waitlists for space limited workshops
• Multi-lingual support with WPML and Polylang compatibility
• Extensible architecture for customization - adding fields, display templates, search customization

2.4.9 - 2024-07-23 Dev: Add several new filters 2.4.8 - 2024-06-10 Tweak: Update translations Tweak: Hide empty sessions in timeline mode 2.4.7 - 2024-03-04 Tweak: Add filters to enable customization of default admin permission requirements 2.4.6 - 2024-02-22 Fix: Save order issue with workshop timing metadata 2.4.5 - 2023-03-03 Tweak: Move documentation to standalone site Tweak: Declare WP 6.1 support 2.4.4 - 2022-03-03 Fix: Admin search issue Fix: Closed potential XSS hole in Admin (thanks WPScan!) 2.4.1 - 2021-06-30 Fix: Potential template issue on Windows servers Fix: PHP 7.4 compatibility 2.4 - 2021-05-17 Fix: Bug affecting search results with grouped workshops Tweak: Improved search results to accommodate accented characters Tweak: Prefixed theme and keyword CSS classes to avoid conflicts Dev: options migrated to separate entries in wp_options 2.3.1 - 2020-12-07 Tweak: Open Location URLs in a new tab by default Tweak: Clicking on a theme or keyword on a workshop sets the filter to that tag 2.3 - 2020-11-29 Feature: Added a Location URL field to allow locations to be clickable links (perfect for online conferences) Update: Updated Select2 to v4.0.13 Update: WP 5.6 compatibility 2.2.2 - 2020-10-20 Fix: Show My Picks button now respects Show Available toggle (Pro Version) 2.2.1 - 2020-10-05 Tweak: Added hooks to allow customization of the search filters 2.2 - 2020-09-24 Feature: Single Workshop view - each workshop now has its own page with all the info on it! 2.1.1 - 2020-09-05 Tweak: Added new shortcode option to show only workshops of a single session (eg. singlesession="ID") Tweak: Added new shortcode option to show only workshops from a list of themes or keywords (eg. theme="my-theme-slug,another-theme-slug") 2.1 - 2020-08-10 Feature: Unified Search/Filter box saves space and makes the interface more intuitive. Added: Support display of multiple instances of the schedule on a single page. Fixed: Properly close session and day containers. 2.0.7 - 2020-07-16 Fixed: Prevent master JS variable from overwriting Pro version. 2.0.5 - 2020-02-10 Fixed: Prevent links from closing an expanded workshop. Fixed: Always show placeholder text for filter dropdowns. 2.0.4 - 2019-12-02 Fixed: Layout issue with day tabs and defaultState set to open. 2.0.3 - 2019-12-02 Fixed: Bug that could cause picks to not save. 2.0.2 - 2019-11-19 Fixed: Bug that could cause wrong date display on workshop. Fixed: Bug that could reset session length to 0. 2.0.1 - 2019-11-16 Fixed: Bug that would reset session length to 0. Tweak: Only apply day tab CSS when needed. 2.0 - 2019-11-14 Added: Timeline mode - view your workshops along a timeline rather than in sessions Added: Day Tabs mode - display days as tabs across the top of the schedule 1.7.4 - 2019-10-02 Fixed: removed extra CSS class from favourite star 1.7.3 - 2019-08-27 Added: Add session and day slugs as a class to allow CSS targeting Fixed: Favourite star no longer can split in 2 Fixed: Blank session start spawning many days error 1.7.2 - 2019-08-09 Added: Filter to set the end time for a day (to control placement of late night workshops) Fixed: Shortcode attribute names always lowercase 1.7.1 - 2019-08-07 Tweak: Add 'no_workshops' class for empty sessions 1.7 - 2019-07-23 Added: Support for new Pro features Fixed: Sort sessions starting at same time by name 1.6.6 - 2019-06-19 Hotfix: Provide defaults for all options 1.6.5 - 2019-06-18 Added: Ability to customize the Day format for day titles using the Customizer Fixed: Sessions now sort alphabetically if start time is the same 1.6.4 - 2019-05-27 Fixed: Some workshops wouldn't show when using collapsed sessions Added: Print CSS styles for showing My Picks Added: Filter to customize session secondary sort order (always by time first) 1.6.3 - 2019-04-11 Fixed: Bug when showing two copies of conf_scheduler on one post 1.6.2 - 2019-04-11 Fixed: Bug in bulk delete posts 1.6.1 - 2019-02-24 Fixed: Fatal error on WP 4.X. 1.6 - 2019-02-19 Added: Session descriptions - now you can write a brief description of each session to show above the workshops Fixed: Minor style issues 1.5.4 - 2019-02-14 Upgraded: The Conference Scheduler block has been rebuilt. More features, better compatibility. 1.5.1 - 2019-01-12 Added: Workshops can now be optionally filtered by multiple themes/keywords Fixed: Resolved date picker conflict with ACF Fixed: Favorite workshop star icons not working when FontAwesome JS is also enqueued Fixed: Added print CSS styles to prevent workshops from overlapping on print 1.5 - 2018-12-12 Added: Search on workshops list in admin now also searches Location and Presenter fields Added: Display presenter on workshops list in admin Upgraded: Bundled Font Awesome upgraded to v5.5 Free. Custom CSS may need updating 1.4 - 2018-11-09 Added: Support for WP 5.0 and the new Block Editor Fixed: Accidentally triggering Delete Workshops when pressing enter on options text field Tweak: Options processing tweaks for Pro 1.3.2 - 2018-10-10 Fixed: bug preventing display of settings page for some users Changed: Block editor support - hide default sessions UI 1.3.1 - 2018-10-03 Added: Support for WordPress Admin Dark Mode Changed: Improved nonce validation Fixed: Minor bug fixes 1.3 - 2018-08-03 Added: Customize workshop sort order in the WP Customizer. Added: New options for defaultstate attribute. Changed: Refactor Pro as an add-on to the base plugin. Fixed: All strings now translatable. Fixed: Minor bug fixes. 1.2.3 Added: 'defaultstate' shortcode option to control initial display of workshops and sessions. 1.2.2 - 2018/05/12 Improvement: Shortcode now displays children of the specified session and not the session itself. 1.2.1 - 2018/05/12 Minor bug fix 1.2 - 2018/05/12 Launched: Conference Scheduler Pro, with full Excel import/export, user registration, WPML multilingual capability and more. Added: Basic workshop display styles can now be easily set with the WordPress Customizer Removed: User registration is now a Pro feature. 1.1 - 2018/03/08 Added: Logged in users can now register for workshops by clicking a new register button! Added: Shortcode can now be customized to display only a requested session (and children) 1.0.1 Fixed: merged sessions that have no children 1.0 Initial release