Modern Events Calendar: Please update

[toddbenton]

Hi @charlie and Themeco,

I’ve been using Modern Events Calendar for years due to your partnership with them and timely updates, but this is disturbing.

They are now disabling features if the plugin isn’t updated, but there’s always a lag between their updates and your releases. Can you contact them and get them to stop this? We can’t have our client event registration turned off in the middle of our client’s biggest fundraising event of the year without warning, which is what just happened.

I’m actively using it on multiple client sites and don’t understand why they would do this without some kind of warning first.

Thanks for pushing an update quickly and also coming up with a solution for the fact that your releases trail theirs. I understand they don’t want unlicensed users to use their plugin, but if they have partnerships with Theme developers, they should find a better solution for those users.

It appears this is as of 7.36.3. I have a site that’s still on 7.35.1; it doesn’t have any issues, but it’s at risk due to a vulnerability. I could roll back, but that’s not a great trade-off either.

[ruenel]

Hello @toddbenton,

Thank you for reaching out. We are aware of the issue and are actively working with MEC to resolve it.

Immediate Solution: Roll Back to 7.35.1

Version 7.35.1 is the last working version before MEC’s new license enforcement. It is also patched against the recent security vulnerability.

Steps:

1. Back up your site.
2. Deactivate and delete MEC.
3. Reinstall version 7.35.1 from Pro > Extensions > Modern Events Calendar.

Your event data will not be lost.

Recommended Resource

• Official Documentation – Modern Events Calendar

We apologize for the disruption and will update you as soon as a permanent fix is available.

Regards.