I'd like to email all attendees

[Daniel]

I’d like to send an email to all of the attendees that have checked in. Is there a way to do this within the UI or, do you have any sample code to enumerate through all tickets for a particular event? I store the ticket holders email in the ticket additional fields. From that I’d be able to email them.

Thanks,
Michael.

[George]

Hey Michael,

Thanks for reaching out. The features you are trying to implement are technically possible, but not with any out-of-the-box functionality provided by our plugins. And so they would unfortunately require code customizations to implement 🙁

To implement the features you describe, you would have to write that custom code yourself or hire a professional developer to do it for you. We have a list of great developers here → http://m.tri.be/18k1 (and have no affiliation with any of these folks—they’re simply some well-respected names in the community that we’ve compiled to share in situations like this one).

Sorry to disappoint! Please let me know if there are any other issues or questions I can try to help with.

— George

[Daniel]

Do you have any pointers to the loop filter I’d need to create in php to get the tickets for a page? Something that you might already have in your code?

Thanks.

[George]

Hey Daniel,

I unfortunately do not have any such insights at this time, nor can we provide any assistance with extra features and customizations as elaborated upon here.

I am genuinely sorry about that, because this would be a fun thing to build! 😀 And I could probably do it if I had a spare few hours.

In any case, what might be helpful is to just go digging within the Event Tickets plugin code itself. There are a number of class methods there like get_attendees_array with which you could ostensibly use to get all of the attendees of a given event and then could loop through that and extract email addresses.

With that array of email addresses, then, you could wp_mail() a bunch of them at a time. You’ll definitely want to build some sort of “batch processing” into this functionality, though, so it doesn’t overload your server!

I am sorry that there’s not much we can help with here, but do hope the information I’ve provided is helpful. While I will not be able to provide further assistance in realizing the customizations described here, if there are any other issues or questions I can try to help with, please let me know!

Sincerely,
George

[Daniel]

That’s a great start and, what I need – I can fish the emails out of the array and send them over to our emailer. Thanks.

[George]

Nice! Glad to help, Daniel.

Be sure to keep good backups of all custom code you write.

Best of luck with your project! 😀

— George

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