Event Organiser FES 1.1

Event Organiser FES 1.1 was released today, which is fully compatible with WordPress 4.0 (it fixes some deprecation notices you may have seen if in debug mode). Additionally it adds two major features: Adding new venues/categories There is now an option for the event venue and category fields which, when enabled, allows the submitter to …

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Restricting bookings by user role

This tutorial is very similar to this tutorial on limiting bookings to one ticket. At the time of writing, the above article uses an outdated, but still available API. That tutorial shall shortly be updated to reflect this. This tutorial uses the current API. Restricting bookings by user role To prevent bookings by users with …

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Event Organiser iCal 1.4.1 Released

Event Organiser iCal 1.4.1 was released earlier today. It is a very minor problem which fixes odd behaviour on installs where the user has selected to “automatically delete expired events” in Settings > Event Organiser > General. The odd behaviour was that expired events were still imported from a feed, and would appear in the …

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Event Organiser Pro 1.8.0

1.8.0 was released today. There are lot of bug fixes and minor improvements, but predominantly there has been a major change in the booking form (described). This is effectively “part 2” of a two-part -major revamp of booking form handling which start in 1.7.0. A full list of changes can be found in the change …

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Event Organiser iCal Sync 1.4.0

Event Organiser iCal Sync 1.4.0 has just been released. This update is focussed on developers, and end-users won’t notice any changes (beyond a few UI bug fixes). As mentioned this update is focussed on developers. The aim of this update was to allow developers to more easily manipulate or build off of iCal sync. If …

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Front-end Event Submissions

The ability to allow users to submit events from the front-end of the website (and published, after moderation by an admin) as been a much requested feature. And now, with Event Organiser Front-end Submissions (or FES for short) you can do just that. If you wish to help beta-test the plug-in, simply fill in the …

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Including custom fields in confirmation e-mail

29th April 2016 Update: This post has been updated to reflect changes in the API introduced in 1.11.0 Event Organiser Pro allows you to add additional fields to your booking form. You can use this to collect additional information about the bookee. Sometimes you’ll want to display this information in the confirmation e-mail (or indeed …

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Sending an email after an offline booking

With most payment gateways you receive payment almost immediately – and so its pointless to send an e-mail reminding users of their booking / how to pay, if they will receive another moments later thanking them for their payment. However with the ‘offline’ gateway, it could be hours or even days before their payment is …

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Event Organiser Pro 1.7.2

1.7.2 has just been released. This is a fairly minor bug-fix update that addresses a few issues. Uses HTTP_X_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE instead of PUT/DELETE requests – Since 1.7 a couple of people reported not being able to update or delete booking forms. The problem was their host had PUT and DELETE requests disabled by default. While enabling …

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PayPal Pro: Beta Testing

If you have a payment gateway that you want to see supported by Event Organiser, you can request it with this form. Out of the box, Event Organiser supports PayPal and ‘offline’ as means of selling tickets. There is also the stripe extension, for accepting credit card payments on your site (without sending them to …

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