Event Bridge for ActivityPub vs Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce

Make your events more discoverable, expand your reach effortlessly while being independent of other (commercial) platforms, and be a part of the growing decentralized web (the Fediverse). With the Event Bridge for ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress, your events can be automatically followed, aggregated and displayed across decentralized platforms like Mastodon or Gancio, without any extra work. Forget the hassle of managing multiple social media accounts just to keep your audience informed. This plugin is not an event managing plugin but an add-on to popular event plugins. It extends their functionality to fully support the ActivityPub plugin. With the ActivityPub plugin people can follow your website directly and engage with your events just as they would on social media: liking, boosting and even commenting if you enable it. You retain full ownership of your content. By integrating into your existing setup, it ensures no extra work is needed while enhancing your events’ visibility across the web. Supported Event Plugins Full support (including importing events from the Fediverse): The Events Calendar VS Event List GatherPress Basic support (outgoing events): Events Manager WP Event Manager Eventin Modern Events Calendar Lite Event Organiser EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings and Tickets EventON – Events Calendar How It Works With the Event Bridge for ActivityPub WordPress plugin, sharing your events is effortless and automatic! Once you create an event on your WordPress site, it is seamlessly shared across the decentralized web using the ActivityPub protocol. Your events can be automatically delivered to platforms that fully support events, such as Mobilizon, Gancio, Friendica, Hubzilla, and Pleroma. These platforms create public event calendars by pulling in events from various sources, including your website. Any updates you make to your events are synced across these platforms—so you only need to manage your events on your own site, with no extra work required. Even platforms that don’t yet fully support events, like Mastodon, will still receive a detailed, well-composed summary of your event. The Event Federation plugin ensures that users from those platforms are provided with all important information about an event. Features for Your WordPress Events and the Fediverse ActivityPub-Enabled Event Sharing: Your WordPress events are now compatible with the Fediverse, using the ActivityStreams format. This means your events can be easily discovered and followed by users on platforms like Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compatible services. Automatic Event Summaries: When your event is shared on the Fediverse, platforms like Mastodon that don’t fully support events will display a brief HTML summary of key details — such as the event’s title, start time, and location. This ensures that even if someone can’t view the full event on their platform, they still get the important info at a glance, with a link to your WordPress event page. Advanced users can create custom summaries via a set of shortcodes. Improved Event Discoverability: Your custom event categories are mapped to a set of default categories used in the Fediverse, helping your events reach a wider audience. This improves the chances that users searching for similar events on other platforms will find yours. Event Reminders for Your Followers: Often, events are planned well in advance. To keep your followers informed right in time, you can set up reminders that are supposed to trigger the events showing up in their timelines right before the event starts. External Event Sources: This functionality is only available for a subset of the supported event plugins. It enables your WordPress site to act as a hub for displaying events from other ActivityPub profiles, aggregating them into a cohesive calendar view. Acknowledgement The development of this WordPress plugin was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement number 101069594. Contributing This plugin is free software, and contributions of all kinds are welcome! Whether it’s reporting issues, submitting improvements, or suggesting new features, your input helps make the plugin better for everyone. Please review our Contribution Guidelines to get started. The source code is hosted on Codeberg, where you can open issues and submit pull requests. Thank you for contributing!

Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce, formerly known as Woo Store Vacation, helps WooCommerce store owners temporarily pause new orders during vacations, holidays, maintenance periods, fulfilment delays, or short business breaks. Instead of taking your website offline, the plugin keeps your shop visible while giving you control over whether customers can place new orders. You can schedule a vacation period, disable purchases, display a clear notice, and automatically reopen your store when the vacation period ends. This is useful when you want to: Take time off without receiving new orders. Pause checkout while still letting customers browse products. Show a clear vacation or holiday notice on your store. Let customers know when your shop will reopen. Keep selected products available during vacation mode. Avoid confusion, missed expectations, or unnecessary support messages. Pause WooCommerce orders while keeping your store visible When vacation mode is active, your shop can remain online and accessible to visitors. Customers can still browse your products, but purchases can be paused by disabling the cart, checkout, and add-to-cart buttons. This helps maintain your storefront and product visibility while preventing new orders during periods when you are unavailable. Schedule your vacation dates Set a start date and end date for your vacation period based on your site’s local timezone. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce automatically applies the vacation settings during the scheduled period and restores normal store behavior when the vacation ends. You can also deactivate vacation mode manually at any time if you return earlier than planned. Display a custom vacation notice Create a clear vacation message to explain why the store is temporarily closed and when customers should return. The vacation notice can include: Custom message text. Start and end date smart tags. Custom text and background colors. A call-to-action button. A custom button URL, such as a contact page. The notice appears on WooCommerce shop and product pages. You can also place it on other pages using the Store Vacation Notice block, Elementor widget, or [woo_store_vacation] shortcode. Control product availability during vacation mode Sometimes you may want to pause most of your store while keeping selected products available. Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce includes condition settings that let you keep specific items purchasable while vacation mode is active. You can exclude selected: Products. Product categories. Product tags. Product types. Shipping classes. This gives you more flexibility than fully closing the entire store. Built for WooCommerce store owners Store Vacation Lite for WooCommerce is designed for real store management situations, including personal vacations, holidays, fulfilment delays, temporary stock reviews, maintenance windows, or short business breaks. The plugin is also translation-ready and includes support for multilingual stores using WPML and Polylang. Lite features Schedule a temporary vacation period. Pause purchases during vacation mode. Keep your shop and products visible. Display a vacation notice on WooCommerce pages. Add the notice with a block, shortcode, or Elementor widget. Add a CTA button to your notice. Use start and end date smart tags. Customize notice colors. Keep selected products available. Allow shop managers to manage vacation settings. HPOS compatible. Need more control? Upgrade to Store Vacation Pro Store Vacation Pro adds advanced scheduling, notices, conditions, and storefront behavior controls for stores that need more than one basic vacation period. Upgrade to Store Vacation Pro to unlock more powerful store closure workflows. With Store Vacation Pro, you can: Schedule multiple vacations — Plan unlimited vacation periods in advance and manage upcoming, active, disabled, and running schedules. Set recurring weekday closures — Close your shop on specific weekdays and times every week. Configure opening hours — Display business hours and automatically close the shop outside your configured hours. Create advanced vacation notices — Build reusable notices with rich text, smart tags, templates, CTA buttons, custom styles, and announcement bar display options. Show vacation content with a block — Display custom page content only while the store is in vacation mode. Use smart product availability rules — Control availability by products, categories, tags, product types, shipping classes, WooCommerce brands, and user roles. Control storefront behavior — Keep the default closed-store behavior, replace shop pages with custom content, password-protect shop pages, or allow access through a private link. Hide store elements while closed — Hide prices, add-to-cart buttons, mini cart widgets, or mini cart blocks during vacation mode. Send admin reminder emails — Get notified before the store enters vacation mode. Track vacation orders — Mark and filter orders placed while vacation mode is active. Force close the store instantly — Pause purchases immediately without creating a future schedule. Import and export settings — Move Store Vacation settings between sites more easily. Use the REST API — Access vacation schedule data programmatically. If your store needs recurring closures, multiple schedules, advanced notices, opening hours, or more control over what customers see while the shop is closed, Store Vacation Pro is the best upgrade path.