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...
View ArticleEmail 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...
View ArticleDisplaying different gateways for different events
The 1.5 update added the filter eventorganiser_booking_form_gateways, this allows you to filter the gateways that appear on the booking form (and also to do so by event). Lets suppose you have multiple...
View ArticleDetecting when a booking changes status
You may wish to detect when a booking’s status changes, so that you can perform some action (for instance, e-mail the bookee that their booking has been cancelled). To detect when a booking changes...
View ArticleIncluding custom fields in confirmation e-mail
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...
View ArticleRestricting 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 At the time of writing, the above article uses an outdated, but still available API.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...
View ArticleStyle your Google map
Event Organiser 2.10.0 was released a couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to cover a very simple change included in that update but gives you much greater control over how Event Organiser’s (Google) maps...
View ArticleAttendee Questions
This tutorial requires 1.11.0 which at the time of writing is due to be released in the coming weeks. ‘Attendee Questions’ means form fields that are replicated on your booking form – one for each...
View ArticleUsing cron jobs to import your iCal feeds
Event Organiser Sync lets you pull in events from any number of feeds, and to specify the frequency with which this is done. It relies on “WP Cron” to do this and requires no server configuration. WP...
View ArticleUsing the Form API to add additional fields
This tutorial has been updated after Pro v1.10.0 release to account for improvements to the booking form API. It some cases it might not be desirable or convenient to add fields via the form...
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