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 […]
Project Management Tips & Strategies for WordPress Plugin Developers
During my time at Event Espresso, we’ve tried many project management tactics and just recently developed a method of project management that seems to be working for us, or rather me, since I am leading project management at the moment. Here is my attempt to publicly share my thought processes and practices in regards to […]
WordPress Event Themes: Beware of Single Event Themes and Theme Lock-in Effect
Event theme buyer’s beware! Especially if you want to switch WordPress themes in the future. Theme lock-in effect is bad news for many event site owners that are using some of the most popular event themes. What is Theme Lock-in Effect? Theme lock-in, AKA the theme lock-in effect, is being stuck with a WordPress theme because the theme […]
WordPress Hosting Showdown: Best of the Best WordPress Hosting for Event Ticketing Websites
Over the year’s, as I’ve attended many WordCamp’s and hosted WordPress MeetUps, I always get this question a lot, “Who do you recommend for hosting my event ticketing website? My current host is terrible.” At which time, I usually rattle off one or two trusted hosting companies. However, I know there’s more than just a few […]
WordPress Theme Developers Unite! A Better WordPress Theme Onboarding Experience is Coming
There’s a new “Theme Onboarding Platform” coming that should help WordPress theme developers build a better onboarding and setup processes into their themes. Introducing Merlin WP Merlin WP (GitHub) is the latest project from Rich Tabor that addresses the arduous and complicated WordPress theme setup and onboarding process. Merlin WP makes installing a new WordPress theme, any recommended WordPress plugins, Customizer […]
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 […]
