Creating your own events page
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’...
View ArticleAdding 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...
View ArticleScheduling 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...
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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...
View ArticleAdding 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...
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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...
View ArticleAutomatically 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
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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...
View ArticleSending 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 ArticleLimit 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...
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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...
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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...
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 ArticleUsing the Form API to add additional fields
It some cases it might not be desirable or convenient to add fields via the form customiser. This may be because you as the developer do no want the actual end user to be able to edit or remove a...
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Style 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...
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Attendee 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...
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