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  • How to Choose the Best Payment Gateway for Online Ticket Sales

    How to Choose the Best Payment Gateway for Online Ticket Sales

    In this post, we explore how to choose the perfect payment gateway for your online ticket sales, providing insights on the top factors to consider and how FooEvents and WooCommerce can give you the flexibility and control you need for seamless transactions. When it comes to selling tickets for your events, the ability to accept…

  • 5 Essential Free WordPress Event Site Admin Plugins

    5 Essential Free WordPress Event Site Admin Plugins

    When you’re setting up a WordPress event site, most articles will recommend the usual suspects—security, caching, SEO, forms, multilingual, and content plugins. And while those are essential, they often overlook backend tools that can make or break your site’s performance, especially if you’re running a WooCommerce store and using FooEvents to sell tickets. In this…

  • Boost Email Delivery: Send Ticket Emails using SMTP

    Boost Email Delivery: Send Ticket Emails using SMTP

    Ensuring that your WordPress site is able to send ticket emails reliably is crucial to the success of your event. While WordPress’s default email sending method is convenient, it comes with limitations that can affect the reliability of email delivery. In this article, we’ll explore these limitations, discuss how FooEvents manages ticket emails, and provide…

  • Create Custom Product Pages for WooCommerce Using Elementor

    Create Custom Product Pages for WooCommerce Using Elementor

    In this article, we will show you how to customize the standard WooCommerce product page using Elementor Pro. We will create a custom product page template that can be used for selling tickets to your events.

  • CSS View Transitions: A New and Easy Way to Animate Your Website

    CSS View Transitions: A New and Easy Way to Animate Your Website

    In this post, we explore a new CSS animation feature currently being rolled out, known as CSS View Transitions. We’ll take a look at how CSS View Transitions make it easy to add smooth, engaging animations to any WordPress or WooCommerce site. Last week, we attended WordCamp Cape Town 2023 in South Africa. The local…

  • 4 Ways to Enhance Ticket Check-ins with the FooEvents Check-ins App

    4 Ways to Enhance Ticket Check-ins with the FooEvents Check-ins App

    Ticket check-ins are crucial to the success of any event. In this article we will look at four ways to improve attendee check-ins using the FooEvents Check-ins app. The FooEvents Check-ins app offers several features designed to significantly enhance your ticket check-in process. By making these simple adjustments to the app settings, you can ensure…

  • How to Build a Powerful Tour Booking System on WordPress

    How to Build a Powerful Tour Booking System on WordPress

    In this blog post, we will explore how a tour booking system can simplify both online and in-person bookings, and become an invaluable tool for managing your bookings and attendees efficiently. I recently had the pleasure of attending WordCamp Europe 2024 in Turin Italy. The conference was a great experience, and I enjoyed connecting with…

  • How to Create a Custom Ticket Theme

    How to Create a Custom Ticket Theme

    A ticket theme is a collection of template files that determine the appearance of a FooEvents ticket email. In this guide, we will show you how to create your own custom ticket theme and implement your unique design. Let’s get started! If you’re planning an event and using FooEvents, you’re probably already familiar with FooEvents…

  • How to Sell Tickets with WooCommerce

    How to Sell Tickets with WooCommerce

    Are you looking to sell tickets to an event using WooCommerce but not sure where to start? In this guide, we will show you how to set up a WooCommerce ticketing system using FooEvents and why it’s the perfect event and ticketing solution for your next event. FooEvents is an event and ticketing system built…

  • 5 Essential Steps to Promote Your Event on Social Media

    5 Essential Steps to Promote Your Event on Social Media

    Organizing an event is just the beginning; getting people excited and eager to attend is where the magic happens. Social media is your best friend to promote your event by creating buzz and anticipation. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you build hype for your next event on social media. 1. Start Early with Teasers…

  • Choosing the Right Extensions for Your WooCommerce Events

    Choosing the Right Extensions for Your WooCommerce Events

    Discover how to boost your WooCommerce events with the right extensions. Learn about the FooEvents for WooCommerce plugin and FooEvents extensions can streamline event management, ticket sales, and attendee check-ins for all your events.

  • 4 Easy Ways to Manage Attendee Check-ins

    4 Easy Ways to Manage Attendee Check-ins

    Attendee check-ins made easy with FooEvents. Discover four methods to streamline your event check-in process, from mobile apps to POS integration.

  • Split Payments Now Available in FooEvents POS

    Split Payments Now Available in FooEvents POS

    Imagine you’re selling tickets at and event and a group approaches and wants to buy tickets together, but everyone wants to pay their share using different methods. In the past, this would require creating multiple orders in FooEvents POS. Now, with the new split payments feature you can add multiple payments to a single order.

  • Create a better Attendee Experience: 4 Things Most Conferences Get Wrong

    Create a better Attendee Experience: 4 Things Most Conferences Get Wrong

    Next month, I will be attending WordCamp Europe 2024 in Turin, Italy. It will be my first time visiting Italy and I can’t wait to see the sights, catch up with old WordPress friends and meet more people from this wonderful WordPress and WooCommerce community. While WCEU is an exceptionally well-run event, it got me…

  • Introducing the FooEvents Event Listing Block

    Introducing the FooEvents Event Listing Block

    It’s been a busy few weeks for us here at FooEvents HQ, and we think you will love what we have been up to! This week we launched our very first WordPress block, called the FooEvents Event Listing Block. This exciting new addition is included in the main FooEvents for WooCommerce (v1.19.9) plugin and makes…

  • Master WooCommerce SEO: 10 Essential Tips for Speed Optimization (2024)

    Master WooCommerce SEO: 10 Essential Tips for Speed Optimization (2024)

    In this day and age, the speed of your website is not just a convenience for users but a cornerstone of your site’s search engine optimization (SEO) and conversion rate optimization (CRO). WooCommerce SEO is a particularly important aspect of running an eCommerce website as more traffic typically results in more sales. According to research by Pingdom,…

  • 12 automated event emails that will boost attendee engagement

    12 automated event emails that will boost attendee engagement

    We’re thrilled to announce that you can now send automated event emails and SMS messages based on custom triggers for an event or booking using the AutomateWoo extension. Effective communication is key to the success of any event or booking system. Automated emails and SMS messages enhance the attendee experience by providing timely reminders, important…

  • FooEvents Translations Speak Your Language

    FooEvents Translations Speak Your Language

    A fun fact about FooEvents is that our customers are globally dispersed and, for many, English is not their first language. This means that a considerable number of customers use the FooEvents back-end in English rather than their native tongue, which can be really challenging. It’s no surprise then, that we get a lot of…

  • Release notes – 23 January 2024

    Release notes – 23 January 2024

    It’s 2024 and we’ve hit the ground running. We have released various maintenance updates to the FooEvents extensions as well as an integration with AutomateWoo and 9 new plugin translations. FooEvents for WooCommerce Version 1.19.0 – Changelog ADDED: Support for AutomateWoo. ADDED: New translations added for 9 languages. FIXED: HPOS resend ticket bug. FIXED: Order…

  • Create an Elementor Event Calendar using FooEvents (2024)

    Create an Elementor Event Calendar using FooEvents (2024)

    In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to add an event calendar Elementor using FooEvents in 2024. The calendars will display multiple events that are displayed in various tabs using different display modes. Step 1: Install Elementor and FooEvents Calendar plugins First you will need to make sure that you have the Elementor plugin installed. It…

  • Important Zoom API update

    Important Zoom API update

    As you may know, FooEvents integrates with Zoom making it possible to sell access to Zoom meetings and webinars. FooEvents does this by connecting securely to your Zoom account via Zoom’s app API. Previously, FooEvents integrated with Zoom using their JWT app, however, on June 1, 2023 Zoom will be deprecating (discontinuing) the JWT app type in…

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