May 3, 2013
There are several ways to create ‘event’ pages – and the best method will depend on what you want your page to do, and your level of expertise. In this tutorial we’ll be looking at the more ‘involved’ method, but before that let’s summarise the different methods:
April 26, 2013
In the previous article we covered how to register our gateway with Event Organiser, and how to create our own settings section, abd save and retrieve the data. Hopefully you’ve now got a working settings section, in which the user can enter any details required for your gateway ( e-mail, merchant key, etc). In this …
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April 22, 2013
Last week I released a Google checkout add-on for Event Organiser Pro. I hope to see many more payment gateways available – and I hope that you will be a part of that! With that in mind I wanted to take you through how any gateway can be added to Event Organiser in the form …
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April 16, 2013
In this tutorial I discuss the whys and hows of creating a site utility plug-in. To put this in bit of context: I’ll be posting tutorials – both user and developer focussed – to help you get the most out of Event Organiser. One of the big advantages of Event Organiser ( & Pro ) …
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March 25, 2013
What Are Shortcodes? Creating shortcodes is a very simple and elegant way of adding dynamic content into a post, or formatting content such as videos (though oembed usually suffices), galleries or pdf documents. Shortcodes – in case you have not come across them – act as placeholders for this content inside your post (or event, …
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March 19, 2013
By default events are coloured according to their category, however with a just a bit of code you can easily change this behaviour (you can even do this in just the core plug-in installed – but it requires a bit more work!). As always the following code should (ideally) live in a site utility plug-in, …
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March 15, 2013
Event Organiser provides a ‘PayPal page style’ option to allow you to tailor the booking payment page to the style of your website, giving your users a more seamless experience. This includes setting page colours and including your site or company’s logo. To take advantage of this: Log-in to PayPal Go to Profile > Selling …
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March 15, 2013
While events can have multiple dates, there is only one page for an event – and so an event date included in the url might not make much sense. But if you have a collection of events with the same name, or you only have single events: an url of the form events/event/my-event-2013-03-13 provides an …
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March 15, 2013
I’ve opened up a new section on this site: tutorials. These tutorials will be both user and developer focussed, and designed to help you get the most out of Event Organiser. The vast majority of these tutorials will only be available to those who have purchased the premium add-on – but I shall be making …
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