Category Archives: CalendarScripts

WatuPRO 2.0

There is a big update in WatuPRO for WordPress. The version number suddenly jumped to 2.0 because there are many and quite important updates (in addition to a few bug fixes). Here is what’s new, not in particular order:

  • Question categories. Optionally you can select to display the quiz with questions grouped by category.
  • Right answer explanation/feedback – optional, shown at the end of the exam. Good way to educate your users/students
  • Pull number of answers from all the answers of a question. Helpful to make answers less predictable when exam is taken many times.
  • Reorder questions (makes sense if you don’t display them randomized)
  • Required questions – don’t let the user continue before answering these.
  • Default user roles can work with the exams. Why is this important? Up to now Watu was using Students role, applied on registration from exam page, that was the only allowed to access the exams. But in practice you may want your existing users – subscribers, authors etc, also to work with the exams.
  • Import/Export questions to CSV (Excel) file
  • User groups and exam categories. You can now limit the access of different user groups to different exam categories. So for example “Basic students” get “basic exams”, “Intermediate” students can get “basic” and “intermediate” exams etc. Or you can separate them by topic – it’s all your choice and is entirely optional.

As the first version of WatuPRO was released this year, all existing customers are eligible for a free upgrade (please mail me at info@calendarscripts.info if you want to get it).

And here is how to upgrade safely without losing any data.

Eventy Basic and PRO For WordPress

It’s time for Eventy to also be available for WordPress. And here it is. Eventy Basic (free) and Eventy PRO ($29) aren’t exact copy of the standalone software but they work around the same idea. Events are displayed on a monthly calendar. Calendars are just custom post type in WordPress. In the PRO version you can have multiple calendars, each one showing different events.

Editors, contributors and authors can also manage events if you want to allow this. Better just check the features and the tour.

If you hesitate about purchasing just try the free version. It’s also available at the WordPress repository.

MicroCal Back To Life

Microcal was one of the very first scripts I ever shared with the public. It was even commercial back in 2004 (I don’t remember the price but I think it was $5). I doubt I have sold more than 3-4 of it before I decided to give it out for free. Now, nearly 8 years later it still has several hundred downloads every month.

Just today I managed to check it and figured out how outdated the code was and how many PHP notices it produced. So here we are, fixed some bugs, improved the code a little bit and MicroCal is again usable in version 1.2 – also available as Google Code repository.

My plan is to revive it a little bit in the next versions, add some better options for including in forms, make it call-able through ajax and will see what else. Unlike the popular calendar plugins for jQuery it doesn’t add much Javascript overload so it has some potential. Let me know if you have any feature requests about it.