Title: Super buggy, codebase is disgusting
Last modified: October 28, 2016

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# Super buggy, codebase is disgusting

 *  [wu-wei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wu-wei/)
 * (@wu-wei)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-buggy-codebase-is-disgusting/)
 * Yet still, it might be the best option we have for an events calendar in WordPress.
   
   If you use this be prepared for functionality that generally works, most of the
   time usually, kinda-sorta like it should. Expect minor version updates that make
   fundamental changes to the markup and base styles and be prepared to update your
   own selectors accordingly.
 * Expect an absolute mess of unorganized, obsolete and impossible to search documentation.
   
   Seriously, why are there hundreds of deprecated functions clogging the documentation
   for the latest version? Pages and pages and pages of obsolete junk information.
   But I digress…
 * All this being said, it mostly works. All of this applies to the pro version 
   as well.

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 *  [shelbelliott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelbelliott/)
 * (@shelbelliott)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-buggy-codebase-is-disgusting/#post-8406571)
 * Hi Wu-wei,
 * We appreciate hearing about your experiences with The Events Calendar. I apologize
   for the negative experiences you mention with updates and documentation. 🙁 It
   may seem excessive from the outside looking in, but please know that everything
   we do is in the spirit of creating a better product and serving our customers.
 * We take feedback (like yours) seriously, and try to let that inform the choices
   we make in the areas you referenced. We’re certainly not perfect, but we are 
   doing our best as a team to build an awesome plugin and awesome customer experience.
   🙂
 * Please let us know if you ever have any questions!
 * Shelby
 *  Thread Starter [wu-wei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wu-wei/)
 * (@wu-wei)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-buggy-codebase-is-disgusting/#post-8407070)
 * Hey Shelby-
 * This is a pretty typical for a response from you guys in that you do pay attention
   to all of your support channels and try to help in a cheerful manner. However,
   even in your own support channels, it’s common that issues are not satisfactorily
   resolved and that’s often because the root issue is a bug. I didn’t mean to imply
   that you folks don’t care and aren’t trying. On days that I’m not annoyed by 
   a chasing bug that isn’t my own, I’m actually quite grateful that your plugins
   exist 🙂
 * If I get some time and motivation I’ll try to put together some constructive 
   comments to help your documentation be more useful to developers. But to understand
   what I meant, go to your Technical Docs link. It’s a bunch of pages of function
   names on which searching is near impossible due to the similarity in names and
   the unsuitability of WordPress search for that sort of thing. Finding out if 
   something has a hook or filter and what that thing might be named takes much 
   longer than it should. A checkbox to include/not include deprecated functions
   would be helpful. These days I just grep the source but that’s extremely overwhelming
   to anyone new to a massive plugin.
 *  [shelbelliott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelbelliott/)
 * (@shelbelliott)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-buggy-codebase-is-disgusting/#post-8434496)
 * Hi wu-wei,
 * Thanks for your response, it’s much appreciated. Our documentation definitely
   does have some shortcomings, and you’ll be happy to know we’re making progress
   on that front, and allocating some more resources to cleaning it up and restructuring
   the content! 🙂
 * Let us know if you need anything else.
 * Best,
 * Shelby

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