WordPress Events Registration with PayPal IPN

Event Listings and Registration Pages This WordPress plugin provides a way to take online registrations for events such as conference and seminars that are held live. Events are managed quickly and easily from within the WordPress dashboard. The plugin also uses the PayPal IPN to record payments to the built in WordPress database. It allows you to capture the registering persons contact information... [Read more]

Get $10 OFF the Premium Event Manager Plugin for WordPress

We have just reached 5,000 downloads of Advanced Events Registration, the premiere event registration and management plugin for WordPress. To celebrate, we offering $10 off the purchase price of premium version of the plugin, to the first 50 people! Use the discount code AER5000 to claim your discount at the time of purchase. Order now and you will also get a first look at version 3* of the new Event... [Read more]

Forums Now Open!

In preparation for the release of Event Espresso (the new name of Advanced Events Registration,) we have just opened up our  new forums. Many of you have been using the WordPress forums to ask your questions about the Advanced Events Registration plugin. The only problem with that is that I don’t know anyone has posted anything there. I try to login and check every once in a while, but that... [Read more]

WP-Ejunkie Shopping Cart Plugin

WP-Junkie Shoping Cart Example Tired of adding lots of HTML button code to WordPress posts and pages? Introducing WP E-Junkie, a quick and easy to use solution for selling product downloads using the WP E-Junkie Shopping Cart system and WordPress. All you need is an E-Junkie account, your E-junkie client id and a self hosted WordPress website. Buttons are easily added to a post/page by pasting a... [Read more]

Would you download a pirated premium plugin or theme?

Beware of “pirated” premium plugins and themes that may add malicious scripts and open back doors into your server and/or your WordPress installations. Apparently several people have had the misfortune of downloading a pirated version of my Advanced Events Registration plugin from some file sharing websites. One person’s site was entirely overwritten with spam posts and links pirated... [Read more]

Announcing Event Espresso

Update alert!  I have been in the process of  renaming, re-branding, and redesigning the Advanced Events Registration plugin for WordPress. The new name for the all-in-one event manager has just been renamed to “Event Espresso“. We are currently shooting for an end of July release. I have just finished uploading the very first screen shots of version 3 of the Advanced Events Registration... [Read more]

Facebook Event Integration Coming in Version 3

Coming soon to the pro version of Advanced Events Registration….Facebook Events integration. With Facebook Events, you can organize gatherings and parties with your friends, as well as let people in your community know about upcoming events. The Events applications page displays your upcoming events, any invitations you have pending, and links to your own events. This week I started exploring... [Read more]

Authorize.net NOW Available for Advanced Events Registration Pro

The Authorize.net gateway is now available on the Pro Version page. If you have been patiently waiting for the addition of Authorize.net into the event registration system, your wait is now over! I have spent the last few weeks getting the pro version of the plugin ready for the NEW payment gateways and building the Authorize.net gateway and IPN. Authorize.net is not the only thing that is new. I... [Read more]

One Year Anniversary of the Advanced Events Registration Plugin

Today is the one year anniversary of the free version of the Advanced Events Registration plugin (originally named and still known as Events Registration with PayPal IPN.) As well as being an important and cost effective addition to many small organizations and blog owners, it has become a very successful event registration plugin for WordPress. It all started off as a small project for my wife.... [Read more]

Free Analytics Tool For PayPal: AnalyzePal

Free Analytics Tool For PayPal: AnalyzePal If you are using the free or Pro version of the Advanced Events Registration plugin for WordPress. Then you gotta check out this app for analyzing your PayPal earnings. AnalyzePal is a cross-platform (PC or Mac) analytics tool specially built for analyzing your PayPal sales data. Here are few of the features: Interactive analysis to visualize your growth... [Read more]

WordPress dbDelta Function Problems

For a couple of weeks I was trying to figure out why the database tables in my plugin weren’t getting updated when the plugin was installed or activated. I had recently written a function (based on this example) to create tables in my WordPress plugin. I finally narrowed it down to the dbDelta function for WordPress. After doing  a few searches on Google I came across this article which explains... [Read more]

Function for Creating Tables with WordPress Plugins

Here is a very useful function I have written to install/update the database tables in your custom WordPress plugin. Basically I have used the examples given on the “Creating Tables with Plugins” page at WordPress.org. In your main plugin file (ex. my_plugin.php) I define my plugin version: define("MY_PLUGIN_VERSION", "2.16" ); //Declare the plugin version.... [Read more]

An easy way to create login panel with jQuery and CSS

Creating Login Panel with jQuery and CSS Mohit Aneja over at CSS Jockey has created a pretty nice looking sliding login panel using Jquery and CSS. The sliding login panel is similiar to what can be seen on Twitter and few other popular websites. The script looks pretty lightweight, easy to use and is well documented.  I may be using it soon (when I get around to re-designing this site.) Check it... [Read more]

Most Used and Abused Web Design Trends of All Time

I found the following  post from Web design Ledger to be pretty funny. I have often found my self using reflective text or mirrored objects, flourishes, and using a lot of stock images in a few projects. I even found myself wondering how I could add a picture of a cup of coffee or a background of a desk into some of my personal designs. Throw in some reflective coffee cups on a desktop and you’ve... [Read more]

WordPress/Website Security Exploits

I have recently seen several websites that I maintain, as well as several that I don’t maintain, hacked by some kind of bot net. It has been a really good learning experience to say the least. Most of the hacked websites were running WordPress, so my first thought that it was some kind of security exploit in WordPress. Then I was asked to investigate of a few static HTML or PHP driven websites... [Read more]