Event Calendar CMS
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- Daithi0
A report I promised and one you shall have.
The events plugin was very useful and fit the bill perfectly for the site that I had. I went ahead and built the site in Expression Engine (way more familiar with that than WP) and linked to single entries using a lightboxed iFrame. Worked well. There were about 160 events so I uploaded them in one go, using the provided Excel template.
Minuses
—Strange things happened with the Excel import as a result of the wp install not being in the root.
—Email confirmations were glitchy when there was high activity on the booking (a few hundred bookings in a day) so I switched it off as it wasn't 100% necessary for my needs.Pluses
—Easy for me to do, a single install/instruction page explained the lot. A more experienced programmer (particularly in PHP) would find it a piece of cake I think.
—FREE!
- vaxorcist0
Most of the CMS's I've seen don't have an in-built ability to do what you want.... the event booking looks more like an application, or possibly a plug-in. After a few minutes of looking at wordpress events plug-ins, I don't see anything that has a ticketing and the ability to declare the event full after x signups... there may be one, but asking a CMS to do this is outside the scope of what's usually considered.... Possibly a Joomla or Drupal plugin could do, otherwise you may have to use a separate app and tie it into your CMS. Note that if you have a separate app, having one user registration system for both may be an issue, as they each would have their own ways of doing things out of the box, resulting in 2 user profiles, not one for each person who signed up as a commentor on the CMS and an attendee at an event.
- mightyj0
wordpress and event registration: http://wordpress.org/extend/plug…
I currently use it on a site for sand volleyball tournament registrations and it seems to get the job done nicely.
- thanks! do you have a link to your site — just to see it in use, not to rip offDaithi
- mightyj0
sorry I never posted the site I used it on. It's www.airvorne.com