We’ve been busy on our YouTube channel lately. In addition to the monthly Espresso Bar hangouts, we just recently produced two new video tutorials and posted them to our YouTube channel. This screencast walks you through creating a recurring event — specifically for the purpose of creating shifts for people to sign up for, but can apply to other types of recurring events as well.
This tutorial walks you through some of the features of the WP User Integration add-on and the two new shortcodes it adds — the My Events shortcode, to display a list of events an attendee has registered for on the front end of your site, and the Edit Profile shortcode, to allow your users the ability to edit their profile without having to log into the WordPress admin.
Be sure to visit our YouTube page and subscribe to catch all the latest videos, and take a look at several others that we’ve recently uploaded featuring new and coming features like the Attendee Mover tool or this one on creating some nice looking CSS3 buttons for your add to cart links.
I have been using EE for about a year. I like it with one big exception: We are having continual problems with spam registrations. We have Re-captcha installed on the site, but it doesn’t seem to be working in EE.
I receive 8-12 spam registrations a day – always double entries (two entries in a row that are identical). We have been having to manually delete these entries every day, which almost makes it not worth using EE despite the program’s other excellent features.
Your suggested correction (requiring registrants to first become members on the site) only shifts the problem to another location.
C’mon guys — please get this fixed. I don’t want to have to find another program to use!
Thanks,
Sharon Gherman, President/CEO
Funding Exchange Inc.
Hi Sharon —
We have a whole blog post devoted to where spam registrations come from and how to prevent them. Please take a look at that and make any corrections you need with your Event Espresso setup or your hosting environment. Event Espresso cannot prevent against spam registrations 100% because your vulnerability to spam depends entirely on your hosting environment. If you have questions or problems with Event Espresso and the reCAPTCHA settings, please post your questions in the forums and we’d be happy to help you.