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January 9, 2020 at 6:07 am

Hi Anita,

May I ask how you’d like to make the login requirement more obvious?

Changing the login prompt on checkout to allow user registrations will require custom development to include the registration fields and to actually register the user with those details, login them into the site in the background and process to the next step in checkout. It’s doable but you’ll need someone familiar with PHP, WordPress and EE to create something custom for you.

Note that one of the reasons we link the user to a registration page rather than including it within the checkout is to allow for custom user registration pages for various other plugins without custom development. For example, you can use any of the membership plugins to create a ‘nice’ registration page with various fields and link them directly to that, it can still require some custom code to function as intended but much less than doing the above.

Something that can be done fairly easily and may help a fair amount is to change the text/styling of the default login text shown there, this text:

The event you have selected requires logging in before you can register. You can register for an account here if you don’t have a login.

Would changing the appearance of that text work for you at all?

January 10, 2020 at 5:06 am

Sure, you can change the text using a function like this:

https://gist.github.com/Pebblo/e0b88c12988f1d12c16692e4d4554bf0

Set your custom text on line 10. My example just adds ‘Custom’ to the beginning of the string but you can change whatever you prefer the test to have.

The first %s is a place holder for – '<a href="' . $registration_url . '">'

The second is a closing a tag – </a>

So set your text and then add the button at the end, then use some CSS to style it to suit.

January 17, 2020 at 6:17 am

The string now reads

Nicely done 🙂

Is it possible to also change the text of the button on that page, that reads, “Proceed to Attendee Information”?

It is, but may I ask what you are changing it to? Only reason being is the button uses the ‘steps’ within the checkout process so it can be a little confusing when changing them.

We have some details on how to change the text here:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/customize-checkout-registration-button-text/

But I can help further if needed.

January 21, 2020 at 8:04 am

I only wanted to change the text of the link, not where it goes to.

Sorry, I don’t follow.

I didn’t mention changing where the button directs the user to so not sure what this is in relation to?

It doesn’t seem that a logged in user sees this step. If that’s right I can remove my test for whether the user is logged in.

Correct, a logged-in user will skip the login reg step and so would go straight to step 2, at which point the checkout test will use ‘Proceed to Payment Options’ by default.

January 21, 2020 at 8:59 am

Ah, sorry, I understand now and you’re most welcome.

Any further questions just let us know.