Title: Difficult customization
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# Difficult customization

 *  [andreu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreu/)
 * (@andreu)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficult-customization/)
 * This plugin doesn’t make use of WordPress native things like archives, post types,
   template parts… This makes the plugin difficult to customize for a WordPress 
   developer, which I think it’s indispensable in a plugin with a lot of features
   like this.

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 *  [Geoff Graham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffgraham/)
 * (@geoffgraham)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difficult-customization/#post-8006935)
 * Hello [@andreu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreu/),
 * I saw your review come in and wanted to take a moment to thank you for it. The
   fact that you gave us three stars despite the challenges you came up against 
   is darn kind of you and also shows that you gave some good thought to it before
   posting. Thanks for that!
 * > This plugin doesn’t make use of WordPress native things like archives, post
   > types, template parts
 * I’d like to get a little more clarity from you on this, if you’re willing to 
   share. The Events Calendar does indeed make use of all of the above things you
   mention. For example, Events are simply registered as a [custom post type](https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types),
   which is an extension of WordPress Posts. And, from there, the Calendar itself
   is a [custom post type archive](https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Archive_page).
 * Is that different than what you’ve seen or experienced while digging though the
   plugin’s code or the documentation?
 * I would certainly agree that customizations are tough if the conditions are the
   way you’ve noted them, but we’ve gone to great lengths to ensure that the plugin
   is built on the same extensible functions that come straight out of WordPress
   and that developers like yourself are able to hook into them to customize things
   as much as possible.
 * Please do let me know if you are able to share more information with us. Our 
   goal is to make this plugin as easy and extensible as possible and we’re always
   on the lookout for how to make that happen–and if we can earn more stars from
   folks like yourself in the process, then that would be an added bonus.
 * Thanks,
    Geoff

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