I am thrilled to announce that all the late nights getting our ticketing system put together are finally paying off. If you go to the site today, you might notice a new sidebar widget and some new menu items under the attendees tab. You now have the opportunity to purchase one of our very limited number of tickets. You may not have heard, but we only have a total of 200 tickets we can sell due to the size of our venue including the ones we’ve already bought for ourselves.
Everyone – organizers, speakers, sponsors and attendees all have to buy a ticket to get in because it’s all about the head count. By my count of all of those people plus those people I’ve spoken to in-person, there’s a very good chance that we’ll sell out before the event.
Don’t wait until the last minute or you might get left out. Go get your tickets now!
P.S. I can’t speak enough about Jonathan, the lead developer from the Shopp WordPress Plugin (that’s what we’re using for our registration system). The new version of his plugin is going to be awesome. I’m trying to convince him to come speak at OC WordCamp, so if you sell anything online, go check out his site.
Please let us know of any issues you run into with your ticket purchase and we’ll do everything we can to help you resolve them.
@mattmcinvale – That’s a great question, but since Jonathan (Shopp) built all of that, it’s totally up to him.
We’re using shopp’s development version (v1.1) that’s due out for beta testing to current plugin owners pretty soon. The new version has been refactored and optimized (some stuff was completely rewritten). I will say this, we’re really enjoying using Shopp, but using a development version of any software comes with quite a few growing pains. There’s still a lot of things that aren’t ready for prime time.
One thing I love is Shopp’s extensibility. You can build plugins for Shopp just like you build plugins for WordPress. The theming system also feels natural if you’ve worked with WordPress themes. If Jonathan decided not to release the ticketing plugin for whatever reason, one could definitely be built pretty easily.
I’ll definitely let Jonathan know that people are interested in extending his plugin and the ticketing features. We’re trying to get him to come speak about using WordPress for e-commerce at OC WordCamp, so maybe if everyone who is interested in that comments here to let him know, it will hep him make up his mind. =)
are you going to be releasing the ticketing functionality for shopp? that would be super.