Event Organiser Pro 1.2: Bookees

A bit later than expected, but 1.2 is ready for release. This update is mainly focussing on the bookee infrastructure, but there’s few other bits added in too. Bookee shortcodes [booking_history] – displays all the bookings (confirmed or otherwise) that a user has made [events_attending] – displays all events that a user is attending There …

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Change Which Gateways Are Enabled For An Event

Gateway settings (merchant account details etc) must be the same across all events – but it is possible to restrict which gateways appear on which events – for instance to allow PayPal purchases only on some events To do this we use the eventorganiser_enabled_gateways hook, which filters the enabled gateways. Step 1: Specify which gateways …

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How To Change The Return Url (PayPal)

As mentioned in this article on enabling auto-redirect, setting the return url [in PayPal accounts] will not affect the url they are redirected too as the plug-in specifies the return url when it sends the user to the gateway. By default users are returned to the booking page with a thank you noticed displayed at …

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Automatically Redirecting Users Back To Your Site (PayPal)

By default auto-return is disabled in your PayPal account: when a user completes their purchase they remain on the PayPal site, and presented with a link back to your bookings page (which will display a thank you notice) – but they are not automatically redirected. Event if users do no return to your site, the …

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Changing the venue map icon

The following tutorial on how to change a venue map icon is fairly straightforward, but it would be great to see an add-on which makes it simple for any user to upload and select an icon for their venue. If you have a go at making one, I’d love to know! Since Event Organiser 2.1 …

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Adding event colour to your menu

In my last post I showed you how to dynamically print CSS to enable you to target parts of your site and colour them according to event category. In this post I’ll be showing an explicit example of how to use that to colour your menu items. If you need to get a colour corresponding …

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Using event colours in your theme

Event Organiser uses the event category colours for the calendar shortcode and the agenda widget – it’ll also be using them in the coming soon add-on, ‘Event board’: But there is no reason why they can’t be used elsewhere in your theme and in this post I’ll be showing you how you can print CSS …

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Pro 1.1 – What’s New

1.1 is about be released this week so I’d share with you some of the updates that shall be included: What’s in 1.1 Guest booking options 1.0 gave you the option of only allowing logged in users to place bookings. Or you could allow guests to place bookings, but they would be created an account. …

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Scheduling Reminders with WP-Cron Jobs

John asked I’m building a website that requires people who’ve booked for an event to be sent an email 24 hours before the event, and then a different email 24 hours after the event. Is this possible in the Pro version? The answer is yes with a little bit of custom coding.

Adding alternative locations for templates

By default WordPress ‘scans’ your (parent & child) theme files looking for template files. Then when it’s displaying content to the end user, it chooses the most appropriate template file (via its template hierarchy), with child templates taking precedence over parent templates. Event Organiser adds in another layer. If the content is relating to events …

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