1.4 Released

First of all a big thank you to all those who took 1.4 for an early spin and tested out the beta-versions. After some thorough testing I’m confident 1.4 is the best and most stable release to date. A summary of the features added can be found here, but they include the much requested ‘Simple …

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Version 1.4 (Pro): What to expect

Booking Form Settings TabSimple Booking ModeBooking Form Functions and ShortcodesBooking Form TemplatesPayment Gateway ClassNo Accounts Please!Functions addedImportant: Change to CSS classesWhat’s changed?Looking AheadFuture Add-onsEvent BoardStripe Payment GatewayDiscount Codes 1.4 is now in beta – and it involves some fairly big restructuring of the form customiser. Although these changes do not effect how the forms work …

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Email the Venue when a Booking is Made

Event Organiser (& Pro) use a lot of custom hooks. Hooks, if you don’t know what they are, allow a third-party plug-in or a theme to modify the behaviour of WordPress – or, in this case, Event Organiser (& Pro). As an example, in this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can email the venue …

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Version 1.3: What to expect

Event Organiser Pro 1.3 is due to be released later today so I thought I’d give you a summary of all the enhancements made and features added. New shortcode: Event Map Currently you can display a current event’s map, the map of specified venues – or a map of all venues. However in Pro, as …

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Venue Markers: Custom Markers for Google Maps

Just the other week, I announced that Event Organiser iCal sync was ready for beta-testing. Now I’m pleased to say that the next add-on, Event Organiser Venue Markers, is ready for beta testing. And these two are just the start of a range of add-ons which will seek to address more advanced or involved requirements. …

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Event Organiser 2.2 Launched

Event Organiser 2.2 went live today on the repository. Here’s a short summary of what you can expect: Additional Options For Subscribe to Events Shortcode The [eo_subscribe/] shortcode wraps a link around the content you specify, creating a subscribe link for events. For example: [eo_subscribe] Subscribe to our calendar [/eo_subscribe] The shortcode already supports various …

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Importing an ICAL feed from Google

Event Organiser allows you to import any ICAL (.ics) feeds into your WordPress website very easily. Optionally you can also import any categories or venues present in the feed1. In this article I show you how you can import an ICAL feed from Google calendar. If we want your website to subscribe to a feed(s) …

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Affiliates Scheme Launched

I’m pleased to announce that the affiliate program for Event Organiser has just been launched. We consider Event Organiser to be the best event management plug-in for WordPress, and we want to reward those who not only agree, but who agree enough to tell others. Referrals which result in a successful sale earn you 25% …

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ICAL Sync – automatically import event feeds

I’m excited to announce that a new add-on for Event Organiser: ICAL Sync is nearly finished and will soon be available. Before then however, it needs to be beta-tested. So if you’re interested, read on! What does it do? The Event Organsier ICAL Sync add-on adds a section to the “Import/Export” tab in Settings > …

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Limit bookings to one ticket

In some situations you’ll only want to limit bookings to one ticket and/or prevent bookees from making additional bookings for events for which they have already placed bookings for. In this article I’ll walk you through how you can achieve that. First let’s look at the function we’ll be making use of: eo_user_has_bookings(). You can …

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