Event Espresso is an events registration and ticketing plugin for WordPress. Want to accept event registrations from your WordPress website? Event Espresso can help you with classes, conferences, workshops, nonprofit events, courses, festivals, and more!
Technical requirements
Event Espresso 3
Event Espresso 4
PHP
version 5.3 and greater
version 7.2 and greater
MySQL
version 5.0 and greater
version 5.0 and greater
WordPress
version 3.9.1 and greater
version 4.5 and greater
Required modules and server configurations
– The mod_rewrite module for Apache servers (if using pretty permalinks)
– An SSL certificate (if using an on-site payment gateway)
– PHP cURL module (most payment gateways require this)
– fsockopen support (some payment gateways require this)
Looking for an easy way to meet the requirements above? Check out our recommended web hosts below ↓.
Recommended WordPress Hosting
Choose a WordPress host that will grow with you so you can focus on your events. Here are some of our member favorites for WP hosting.
“WP Engine is the best! Came from GoDaddy to WP Engine and received a significant performance boost. Well worth the monthly fees. – Mark H.”
“When it comes to hosting YOU really do get what you pay for. We use and highly recommend WP Engine. Why, because they listened to their customers. – Tom T.”
“I’m pretty much in love with DreamHost – now building my third site there & one of them runs EE4 – Michael K.”
“I have been using Cloudways from past 2 years and I love their services, its super easy to use it and WordPress hosting is my favorite because I love flexibility. Exceptional customer support and technical team is very skilled to handle critical issues with my sites. Must recommend for digital agencies for scaling. – Jitendra V”
Web hosts that we don’t recommend
Our members have not had a great experience with the following web hosts so we do not recommend them.
GoDaddy hosting
Pressable hosting
Crazy Domains hosting
Web Mazda hosting
Windows based hosting
Yahoo hosting
Hostpapa
Are you currently using one of the web hosts above? Consider switching to one of the recommended web hosts so you can use Event Espresso for your events.
Not using WordPress?
Are you looking for an events solution with services like Squarespace, Weebly, or Wix? Our sister product Event Smart can help you.
Event Smart is flexible event registration software and can help with your online event registrations and event ticketing for events like classes, conferences, fundraisers, reunions, seminars, and more!