Offering event registration from WordPress
If you’ve read my previous post, you’ll know I’m working on a local business networking site in WordPress.
To handle event registration, I checked out a few different plugins, and finally decided on Events Manager 2.0. It’s a very slick plugin that not only allows people to RSVP for events, but also ensures only the right number of seats are available, it sends confirmation emails, and produces a nice printable report of who has bought tickets.
It isn’t exactly what I need, but it’s a solid place to start hacking.
My first job was to turn the single field “seats” into “member tickets” and “non-member” tickets, make sure that the new fields show up in all the right places, and recode a few things to make sure they get added up in the calculations to determine how many tickets are left to be sold.
I also added two new admin and database fields for the prices of member and non-member tickets for each event.
Today I’m working on a Paypal integration for the registration process. Once the user has decided how many member/non member tickets to buy, I want to send them to a page where they can either print off the invoice and pay by cheque, or click a link to connect to Paypal.
Once I’m done hacking this plugin, it’s on to user registrations on the site, which looks like it could be a beast!
[evening edit]
And by golly I’ve done it. It ain’t pretty so far, and I need to make the paypal and addresses and such customizable, but the hack was successful….
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This is nice. Thanks for the info. I never thought that is possible for a site like this. I was wondering if I could change my all or nothing book to an event organizer too..
Hello, I know that the event registration offerd by http://www.amiando.com is also compatible via iframe with wordpress. But only if you don’t mind 3rd party apps
I used amiando and although it takes a few mintues to get into it, really like it