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See you in Phoenix

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Back in October of 2009 I had the pleasure of presenting at WordCamp Phoenix. Unfortunately, thanks to some really bad planning on my part, I wasn’t able to stay and enjoy the event as I had to hop a plane to New York 2 hours after my presentation. See? I told you it was bad planning!

This coming weekend is WordCamp Phoenix 2011. Last time around there were 500+ people. From what I hear, this year is even bigger. I’m really excited to have the chance to go back and attend the event properly.

If you are attending the event this weekend, it’s going to be pretty tough to avoid the 9seeds crew. Not only are we a Bronze Sponsor for the event, but you’ll also find Shayne presenting on Saturday and 3 of us (Me, Shayne and Todd) will be taking turns helping out in the Genius Bar. You’ll also find us staying late at the after party, and, I’ve heard rumblings of a 10×10 challenge happening at In n Out burger. (I’m not at liberty to confirm or deny the 10×10 challenge. Nor can I take responsibility for any clogged arteries that may occur.) On Sunday we’ll be making our way to Gangplank and taking part in the festivities.

We hope to see you out there.

Cheers,

John

WP Affiliate Manager adds Paypal Mass Pay

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Huzzah! The holidays are finally over! Now it’s time to get back to work. We have a lot going on at 9seeds, and you’re going to be seeing several updates to some existing plugins, along with a couple of new ones we’ve been working on. So let’s get started!

Introducing WP Affiliate Manager version 1.3

In version 1.3 you’ll find a handful of new features highlighted by the addition of Paypal MassPay which will allow you to pay all your affiliates at the same time. For sites with a large number of affiliates, this is a HUGE time saver!

Along with the new plugin update, we’re also updating the wpaffiliatemanager.com website to include a bunch more information about the plugin and how it works. We’ve also added a blog where we’ll provide detailed information about each new release, starting with a post about today’s release.

WP Event Ticketing setup video

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As great as written instructions can be, some people have a much easier time learning visually. For those folks we’ve created a walk-through video to show users how to set up and configure the WP Event Ticketing plugin.

If you have trouble viewing the video here, click over to vimeo.com

Minor update for WP Event Ticketing

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Earlier today we released an update to our WordPress plugin WP Event Ticketing (version 1.1.4). It is a minor update to fix 2 bugs that a few users had run in to. Here is what was updated:

  • Default permalink sites (?page_id=) no longer cause illegal URLs to be generated
  • Clicking on delete then cancel doesn’t cause ticket/package to still be deleted

In other Event Ticketing news, we are still hard at work on WP Event Ticketing Pro. It’s coming along nicely and even though we are very excited to share it with you, we’ll be keeping it under wraps until we’re confident that it’s ready to rock! If you want to be one of the first to hear all the juicy details about it, sign up for the 9seeds newsletter.

Until next time, Cheers!

Running WP Event Ticketing with Thesis

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UPDATED 12/1/2010: Version 1.1.2 was released this evening and fixes the conflict with Thesis. Instead of editing the files manually, you can download the latest version instead.

We’ve had a few reports of our plugin WP Event Ticketing not displaying the Ticketing menu on the admin dashboard. The common denominator for the reports was that they were all using the Thesis theme.

After some troubleshooting through the code, I found a conflict that I believe to be a bug in the way WordPress handles the addition of new navigational menu items. I’ve reported the conflict to the WordPress development team, but it’s not something that will likely be fixed right away. So until then, we’ve come up with a simple workaround. We will include this update in our next release, but until then, here is the workaround.

1. In a text editor, open the file named ticketing.php
2. Find the line that looks like this:

add_menu_page('Tickets', 'Tickets', 'activate_plugins', 'eventticketing', array("eventTicketingSystem", "ticketReporting"), WP_PLUGIN_URL . '/' . plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/images/calendar_full.png',30);

3. Replace that line with the following:

add_menu_page('Tickets', 'Tickets', 'activate_plugins', 'eventticketing', array("eventTicketingSystem", "ticketReporting"), WP_PLUGIN_URL . '/' . plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/images/calendar_full.png',29);

Once you make this change, “Tickets” should now show up right before the “Thesis” menu item.

As always, if you run in to any issues with the plugin, we urge you to post it to the WP Event Ticketing Support Forum. If you’d like to be informed when we release new software updates, be sure to sign up for the 9seeds Newsletter.