Can I use Event Tickets Plus without The Events Calendar plugin?

[keystoliteracy]

I noticed that Events Tickets Plus allows you to create tickets for other custom post types, which is really great.

I’ve got a custom post type for Workshops that I want to sell tickets to. Do you support using Event Tickets/Event Tickets Plus without having The Events Calendar plugin installed?

Thanks!

[Geoff]

Hey Marcy,

Absolutely! Event Tickets will work with or without The Events Calendar. So, for example, you can create RSVPs and tickets on specific post types instead of calendar events. 🙂

Does this help answer your question? Please let me know.

Cheers!
Geoff

[keystoliteracy]

Oh, excellent -that’s great news.

Question – I noticed that if I disable The Events Calendar plugin then the “Event Ticket Fieldset” menu item goes away from the WP-Admin Events menu. Do you know how I can get it back?

I want to use that to capture additional information when people purchase one of my tickets.

Thanks!

[keystoliteracy]

Oh, this is weird – I just found the Ticket Fieldsets, they got moved under the “Posts” menu item. As did the Events “Settings” and “Event Add-Ons” submenus. They’re now all under “Posts” instead of “Events”. Weird, right? I just reverted to twenty-sixteen but still see the same thing.

This is on a local dev box. But attaching screenshots of the Events menu and the Posts one.

Any ideas?

[Geoff]

Hey Marcy,

Believe it or not, that’s actually correct. 🙂

Once Even Tickets and Event Tickets Plus have been activated, they need to apply their settings and features to a post type — otherwise, they would be inaccessible right off the bat, as you found out when the Events settings went away.

That said, we could be much clearer about that behavior, and I’ll look into how we can communicate that better in the tutorials.

Thanks so much!
Geoff

[keystoliteracy]

Oh, that’s interesting. I’m actually using the tickets on a custom post type I created called Workshops (not on Posts). I specify that in the Events settings – which seems to have worked because I only get the option to add Tickets to Workshops.

So then shouldn’t those event options go under my Workshops wp-admin menu?

[keystoliteracy]

Here’s the screenshot from my “Events Settings”

[Geoff]

Hi Marcy,

That does seem a little odd, but I’m told this is expected behavior. In any case, I will open a ticket in our system to look at it further because we’re always interested in how we can make the plugin more intuitive and this might be an opportunity.

Thanks!
Geoff

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