After a year without updates, I finally found some time to provide a huge update, which is currently in beta stadium because of a lot basic changes.

V1.5.0 fixes several bugs and make this plug-in completely WP 3.3 compatible. Allmost all know bugs have been fixed with this version. The main changes of this version are in the database structure, where the usages of unix timestamp havebeen completely replaced by new fields using MySQL Datetime fields. This makes alot of coding much more easier but also makes it much more easier for you, because events can be selected by date/time values in a readable form instead of this long integer unix timestamps. But, the main reason for this update wasn’t the usability. A big problem of unix timestamps are time zones because it’s value results in another Date/Time depending on the zone. This means that Unix Timestamps should be stored in UTC to make it time zone compatible and have to be converted everytime. In fact, WP Calendar didn’t store this timestamps in UTC zone, which caused problems, especially in time zone with daylight savings.

The reason, this version is still beta, is very simple. The start and end time of an event are very important and allmost very function of WP Calendar reads or writes it. This means every function has to be tested very good. Because of lack of time, I’m unable to do it. Even if I don’t expect any big problems, I’d like to wait for first Feedback from the community to provide you a very stable final V1.5.0.