Use the Event Espresso MailChimp Add-on to Automate Sending Messages to Attendees
MailChimp is a powerful email marketing tool used by millions (14+ million currently) of people and businesses around the world. MailChimp sends out more than…
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Using Ninja Forms to create wait lists for your events
Firstly you will need to install Ninja Forms which can be done through the plugin manager, simply navigate to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New…
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Using Contact Form 7 to create wait lists for your events
First install Contact Form 7 through the plugins manager within your site, navigate to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New and search for ‘Contact Form 7’.…
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How to set up a class that meets weekly
This is an example of a recurring event (class) that can be set up manually using the Event Espresso 4 multiple datetimes system to have…
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How to get professional conference badges with QR codes
You can design custom name badges for your upcoming event and get them shipped or print them yourself. This guide shows how to get attendee…
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Accept donations alongside event registrations with Event Espresso
Donations can help your organization reach its fundraising goals by allowing contributions from guest’s that are attending as well as guests that cannot make it…
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Recommendations for hosting virtual events with Event Espresso
We’ve collected feedback from our awesome event organizers all over the world to create a process for virtual events. This flexible process can help with…
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WP Cron and Event Espresso
Have you noticed Event Espresso has features that schedule tasks to happen in the future? Don’t worry if not. These features rely on WP Cron…
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How to Fix Emails Sending from WordPress@
When emails send from your own server, do they look like they’re coming from WordPress? For example, the sender always says “WordPress”? Email providers often…
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Simple Sold Out Event Notifications
At this time, Event Espresso does not automatically notify event managers of sold out events. To facilitate this feature until we have developed and released…
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File Upload
At this time EE4 does not have an file upload feature. However, a third-party plugin developer has created a plugin to allow EE4 users the…
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How to set up seat allocation with the Ticket Selector
In the case that you have an event at a venue with assigned seating, for example a performing art building, or tables at a gala,…
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Adding Related Events Using Advanced Custom Fields
In this tutorial, we’ll create a “Related Events” section (example) that will be displayed in the event details page. We’ll be using example code from…
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Barcodes vs QR Codes: Which Ones to Use on Your Tickets?
Your attendees are on their way to your biggest event of the year. You owe your fast check in to the simple technology called QR…
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How To Import Registrations Into MailChimp
When using the MailChimp Add-on registrants are added to your List as they register onto the event. Sometimes you may want to import the registration…
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How To Export Registrations To CSV
All of your registration information can be exported to a Comma-separated Values (CSV) file that will allow you to use that information however needed. CSV…
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Ticket Selector Embed Code
The “Ticket Selector Embed Code” is simple, right? Just click the “Embed” button in the event editor, after creating an event. The code that appears…
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Custom QR Codes for Tickets
Some Event Espresso 4 users would like to know how to create a custom QR Code, with attendee details on their tickets. This makes it…
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How to Use Datetime and Ticket Names to Consolidate Event Pages
In Event Espresso 4, if you manage the online event registration and/or ticketing for a category of events (e.g. volunteering opportunities or an on-going writing…
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How to Hide Certain Elements on the Event Espresso Pages using CSS
In this article, we will learn how to inspect elements on various Event Espresso pages so that we can hide them using CSS. Firebug and Chrome…
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How to Manually Add a Registrant through the WordPress Dashboard
There may be times where you need to add a registrant to an event but you don’t want to have the registrant do this themselves.…
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How to Change the events CPT Slug
By default, Event Espresso 4 uses the /events/ Custom Post Type (CPT) slug (permalink) to organize your events. The word “events” is a generic term…
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How to Add a PayPal is Optional Message to Registration Checkout
In this tutorial we will explain how to add a message to registration checkout to let your registrants know that a PayPal account is optional.…
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How to Setup a Default Value of 1 for the Ticket Selector
By default the ticket selector will have different quantities of tickets available — usually 0 through 10. It may be useful to have the ticket selector…
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How to Style the Registration Checkout Buttons using CSS
In this guide, we’ll show you how to style the buttons that are used on the front end for Event Espresso. Below we have examples of…
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How to Customize the Checkout Registration Button Text
In this article, we’ll show you how to customize the text that is used for these buttons. Below we have examples of the buttons that…
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How to Accept Payments with Event Espresso
Today you’ll learn how to accept payments with Event Espresso. Event Espresso supports a handful of payment gateways and these can be setup by going…
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How to Setup Event Espresso and Publish Your First Event
In this guide, we will learn how to setup Event Espresso and publish your very first event. It is recommended that you work through the…
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How to Show the Events List Page in your Website Navigation
Today you’ll learn how to add a link to the Events List page to your navigation for your website. This will allow your website visitors…
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Arabica Theme Install/Setup
In this guide we will cover how to install and setup the Event Espresso Arabica theme from Event Espresso. The Arabica theme is a derivative…
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How to Get a List of Attendees for my Event
In this post we’ll learn how to retrieve a list of people (attendees) who are attending a specific event. Let’s get started! Begin by logging…
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Add a Sponsors Section to Events Using Advanced Custom Fields
In this tutorial, we will create an event sponsor section that can be displayed throughout the event details, ticket selector page, and checkout process. To…
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Add a Course Curriculum Section to the “Thank You” Page Using Advanced Custom Fields
In this tutorial, I show you how to get started with adding course curriculum/downloads to the “Thank You” page after payment. Adding a downloads section…
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EE4 “Single Page Checkout” Page Actions & Filters
Wrapper Template This template is for the Reg Step Indicators at the top of the page. The other steps get added via a PHP template…
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How to Set Graduated Ticket Pricing
Starting with Event Espresso 4.3 you can offer graduated pricing based on ticket quantities. This article shows how to set graduated ticket pricing where you…
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How to Create a Ticket Bundle
Starting with Event Espresso 4.3 you can offer discounted pricing and volume discount promotions based on the quantity of tickets someone purchases. This article shows…
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How to Show a Ticket with a Price of Zero as Free
In this post we’ll learn how to show tickets that have a cost of zero as free and remove the dollar amount showing from the…
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How to Setup No-Cache/Exclusion Rules for Event Espresso
Caching plugins have become a popular way to increase the load speed of WordPress sites. While they work well for static content such as pages…
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Registration Status in EE4
Event Espresso 4.0 and beyond has streamlined the payment status for attendees, but has also separated Payment Statuses and Registration Statuses. There are now 5…
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How to Require Attendees to Agree to a Policy Before Being Allowed to Register
At times you may want potential attendees to agree to a certain policy, certain terms and conditions, or even a refund policy, before allowing them…
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How to Change Languages
This how to will guide you through changing WordPress (single installation) and Event Espresso to use a language other than US English in the WordPress…
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How to Change Wording and Text with POedit
It is often useful to be able to change the text or wording of something in Event Espresso in order for it to fit in…
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Securing your Registration and Payment Pages
Overview If you will be offering on-site payment options (like PayPal Pro or Authorize.net) then we recommend adding SSL-encryption to your site. This guide will…
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Anti-spam & reCAPTCHA
Protecting your site against spam registrations is an important part of running an event site. Some webservers have safeguards against spam registrations while others do…
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How to Setup A Transactional Email Service with Event Espresso
Are you having email deliverability issues such as emails getting lost or some being marked as SPAM or junk mail? If so, a transactional email…
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