Event categories VS Product categories

[Bram Huisman]

Hi there,

What we are aiming for is some kind of “membership” website. Only registert and accepted members can attend an event. So the ideal situation for us is that every visitor can VIEW all events, but can’t buy tickets.. there for they need to register and be assigned to a specific role using the ultimate members plugin in combination with woocommerce. I know there is a plugin at woocommerce named: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/catalog-visibility-options/ with this plugin we can block people from adding to the cart with the use of product categories. But the events calendar uses event categories.. Do you guys know if this is possible to hook or so?

An other option is not displaying the ticket section when a user is not logged in as a specific user.. is this possible?

[Geoff]

Hi Bram,

That sounds like a cool site!

Yes, this is totally possible with Event Tickets Plus. When creating a ticket, it will automatically be categorized as “Ticket” product in WooCommerce and all tickets are automatically already hidden from product catalog view.

What you would need to do is make sure that the ticket form on events is only displayed to members of the site and to do that, you can modify the template for it by wrapping it in a conditional statement that checks for a visitor’s logged in status like this:

<?php
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
// ticket form code
} else {
echo 'Please log in to purchase tickets.';
}
?>

Will something like that work for you? Please let me know. 🙂

Cheers!
Geoff

[Bram Huisman]

Really thx, this is great!

[Geoff]

My pleasure! Thanks again for reaching out and I hope the plugins are a great fit for your project. 🙂

Have a great day!
Geoff

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