We’ve been working on a really cool new set of features that you’re going to love. We’re finishing up some of them and we’ll be releasing Event Espresso 4.3 very soon. Here are a few of the features we’ve added in Event Espresso 4.3 that we’re excited to tell you about:
- A button for duplicating events
- An option to make one ticket type required before other ticket types can be selected
- Ticket bundles
- Graduated ticket pricing
- A Newsletter message type for sending batch emails
- Automatic payment status updates on the Thank You page
- New hooks designed to be used with Advanced Custom Fields to allow for custom event content
Would you like to preview some of these new features? If so, you can download an pre-release copy of Event Espresso 4.3 from your account page after you opt into the pre-release channel. If you have any feedback or questions about any of the new features in this release, we welcome your feedback. Please leave a comment here or start a thread in our Pre-release forum and we’ll be sure to follow up.
I’m thrilled about several of these features – is this solid enough to be used in production? I know that it’s never preferred, but this would be ideal for my business.
Hi there,
Generally speaking, our pre-releases are released so everyone can preview and test out what’s new before the finishing touches and final rounds of testing are done. Whether it’s solid enough to be used in production depends on your specific use case.
I can recommend trying out the pre-release on a non-production environment first. This way you can find out if the new features will work the way you’re expecting.
I only have one system, unfortunately. Is the database backend compatible? If I install the 4.3 release, and have issues, is it possible to roll back to my current 4.2.9?
Hi there,
It turns out that there are a few changes to the database so when you update to 4.3, there is a database migration which would make it kind of tricky to revert to 4.2.9. You would need to take a backup of the database, then revert back to the database backup, which could result in some data loss if any new registrations came in during the time you ran 4.3.
There are a few options that you can use to get a pre-release up and running on your own personal webserver:
For Windows/Linux/MacOSX:
https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
For MacOSX:
http://www.mamp.info/en/
Hi,
I’ve been struggling with adding custom meta to the event post type for a while now… I have a couple of meta boxes (e.g. sub-title, call to action button text/url, etc.) I add to every page and post in our site, but can’t seem to hook into the espresso_events post type so these metaboxes display when creating events, venues, etc. I also noticed that Yoast SEO metaboxes are missing, so I assume you’re blocking this somehow.
When you say “New hooks designed to be used with Advanced Custom Fields to allow for custom event content” does this mean I can attach meta with standard the WordPress approach or is this something specific to ACF? I really, really don’t want to have to use ACF to simply add a metabox that already exists and is in use elsewhere on my site.