This is a brief illustrated tutorial on the RSVPMaker event editor and the primary options it provides. Here’s how you set up a basic event, with just a headline, event description and date and time set. And here’s what it gets you: Here, we’re specifying both a start time and a duration, so that the …
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Improvements to RSVP Report
I’ve upgraded the RSVP Report to be a little neater, include a function for printing reports, and add an option for deleting entries (including spam entries or test entries). RSVP Report, showing the listing of upcoming events and how many RSVPs for each: Listing of responses for a specific event: Note the new “Format for …
Changing the RSVP Form, Other Customizations
Note: RSVPMaker 2.5 makes more advanced customization of the RSVP form available from within the administration console, which may eliminate the need for some code-level customization. RSVPMaker includes a mechanism for allowing you to add custom functions or override the some of the default functions included with the plugin. Specifically, you can override any of …
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Creating an Event Template
When a single event is displayed, the standard single post template may tend to cause confusion because it juxtaposes the posting date with the event date. This is particularly a concern for post templates that feature the publication date prominently at the top of the post. You can avoid this problem by adding a single-rsvpmaker.php …
Translators Wanted
I’m planning to introduce support for translation in the next update. So far, I’ve got interest in French and Danish. I’m a mono-linguistic American, so my contribution will be limited to tagging words and phrases for translation and looking for collaborators who can do the actual translating. The process is outlined at http://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers Update 12/29/2010: …
Some Users Reporting Page Not Found Errors
A few users who have tried the RSVPMaker plugin report problems with getting 404 page not found errors when they try to follow a link to one of these entries. Let me know if you experience this issue, as I’m trying to track down the cause. It seems to work fine for most people, but …
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How to Post and Email an Event
The RSVPMaker and ChimpBlast plugins work together to let you send event invitations through the MailChimp broadcast email service. This tutorial uses the system as installed on the Economic Forum of Palm Beach County website as an example. Using the RSVPMaker options page, I’ve configured things so we always ask for an RSVP response by …
Feature Requests So Far
Update: I wound up publishing a new version that addresses most of these requests sooner than planned, after I found a few other errors that needed to be corrected. I expect to publish an update to the RSVPMaker Plugin in about a week. Feedback has been good overall. People who have tried other event management …
RSVPMaker Shortcodes
To set up a listing of events, include one or more of the following short codes. These are meant to be used in a standalone page, rather than a blog post. The Events page on this website uses two shortcodes. The first one sets up the calendar that appears at the top of the page. …
How to Set Up PayPal with RSVPMaker
For more current information, see https://rsvpmaker.com/blog/category/paypal/ RSVPMaker includes integration routines from the PayPal software developer’s kit to allow you to solicit online payments for your events and record which users have paid. The setup is a little bit involved, but there’s a reason for it. See also the Video tutorial on PayPal configuration I could …