The events industry landscape has changed quite a bit over the last few years thanks to advancements in the software and hardware industry. Technology has enabled us to automate and manage various event-related tasks which, in turn, help minimize budget and labor constraints. As a result, event organizers are always looking for ways to […]
5 Best WordPress Event Plugins for Enterprise Websites of 2020
Organizing successful events at the enterprise level involves managing all sorts of event-related tasks like event planning, registrations, ticketing, and email marketing. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the most popular event management plugins for WordPress that can help you showcase events, accept registrations, sell tickets, and run email marketing campaigns […]
How Your WordPress Website Can Help You to Put on a Great Event
As an event organizer, you probably already know that putting on a great event requires a lot of planning and coordination. Many times the most challenging work – event registration and ticketing, marketing, organizer-staff coordination, payments – happens behind the scenes. The good news is that your WordPress website can help you stay on top […]
11 Best WordPress Calendar Plugins 2019
All sorts of businesses use calendars to allow customers and clients to book appointments, inform site visitors about upcoming events, and let employees know about meetings. If your website is built with WordPress then you are in luck! There are some great options for easily deploying a robust and functional calendar to your website! In […]
Comparing Hosted vs Open Source Venue Ticketing Systems
Keeping track of online registration and ticketing activities for your event can be pretty difficult. In addition to selling tickets, you have to set up payment gateways, send tickets to attendees, and gather analytics. Venue ticketing systems take the heavy lifting out of online ticketing, venue management, payment processing, and other event-related activities. In this […]
Which is the Best Free Event Ticketing System?
My answer to a question on Quora: There are hundreds of different cloud-based (hosted) ticketing systems available on the internet, but if you want to take life by the horns, I would tell you to sell tickets from your website and cut out the middleman. “How the heck do I do that?”, you ask out […]
Naming Things is Hard. Naming an Event Management Company is Even Harder.
Do you ever ask yourself how a company name was created? I can tell you it’s no walk in the park. In some industries, such as the event management industry, new business names are so hard to come up with that many people have resorted to posting on Quora, asking for help naming their event […]
Top WordPress Event Calendar & Ticketing Plugins
This is my list of recommended WordPress Event Plugins. If you would like a plugin considered for this list, please let me know. WordPress Event Registration & Ticketing Plugins Event Espresso – Originally launched in 2009 on WordPress.org in April 2009, as “Events Registration with PayPal,” renamed to Event Espresso in 2011. Event Espresso powers the event […]
Interested in WordPress Roles and Capabilities?
Using the built-in WordPress Roles and Capabilities system allows event website managers to create role sets and assign capabilities to users, allowing site owners to give control over their events (and attendees) to what’s called Event Managers and/or other team members. But what exactly are WordPress user roles? If you’re interested in using WordPress Role and […]
Did you know? The Event Smart Ticketing Platform is Powered by WordPress
First off, what is Event Smart? Event Smart is a free, online event registration and ticketing platform. Better known as a Software as a Service (SaaS) event registration and ticketing platform, but it’s much more than that. How is Event Smart More Than a Ticketing Platform? Event Smart is the only event ticketing platform that […]
