Problem: WooCommerce site’s Checkout page transaction process is slow (Place Order –> Order Received Thanks You page). And the site’s pages and Admin are slow. To sell event tickets, the site uses the following WordPress plugins: Index WP MySQL For Speed WordPress plugin: Use Index WP MySQL For Speed plugin to convert the database’s old…
Problem: WooCommerce Checkout page’s processing speed is REALLY slow (45-120 seconds to complete a transaction –> from after clicking Place Order button on Checkout page until /order-received/ Thank You page loads). After researching, the biggest culprit is the MySQL wp_postmeta table. Which has ~1 million rows. Solution: Add Keys (INDEXes) to particular tables like the…
Goal: Upgrade Fast Fridays’s event ticket purchasing process so customers can purchase tickets directly from FastFridays.com instead of from a 3rd-party ticket issuer. Full checklist of changes made to Fast Fridays.
Fast Fridays Motorcycle Speedway produces 19 motorcycle speedway events throughout the summer, with a seating capacity of 3,800. They offer Adult, Junior/Senior, and Kids (Free) ticket pricing. Client goal: to have their site sell tickets without customers being sent to a 3rd-party site to purchase tickets. More specifically, client wants their customers to be able…
Problem: Have to manually change Status of WooCommerce Orders from Processing to Completed so that Event Tickets Plus QR codes in customer’s email can be activated and scannable with the Event Tickets Plus Check-In App. When purchasing tickets with Event Tickets Plus, emails won’t be sent to attendees until the order has been marked as Complete, when…
Problem: The Events Calendar‘s Featured Image displays at the top of the Event’s Single page. Goal: To have the Featured Image display ONLY on the Calendar’s List page, and NOT on the Event’s single page. Solution: Customize the Events Calendar’s template files: Create a /tribe-events/ folder in your Child Theme’s folder. Go to: root/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/views/single-event.php, and copy the…
The Events Calendar Category Colors WordPress plugin Add event category background colors to The Events Calendar events.
Problem: Google Map not displaying on The Events Calendar WordPress plugin’s Event detail page on FireFox and Chrome. It displays fine on Safari. Google Map not displaying because of a non-secure HTTP API link. Error message in FireFox (detected via Console): “http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false” The Events Calendar, v 3.1. WordPress, v 3.6.1 Solution: FIX for missing Google…
This can only be done in the WooCommerce Products section, NOT in the The Events Calendar ticket section. Under WooCommerce Products, change the events’ Catalog visibility from hidden to whatever visibility you want. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! If you don’t, the WooTicket ticket will only show on your event calendar, and not in your WooCommerce store.*…