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Heatmap is a great new tool we’ve installed to help you work out which CTA on your event website are the most popular.

An overview of how to use this:

Click on the heatmap link on your admin screens and setup an account on Heatmap.me. There is a free version which works with 1 website, 5 pages. You can upgrade this to a premium account if you choose.
Click on the heatmap link (this time top-left) to start recording user actions on the page you are currently on.
Come back in a few days and view the reports. They are in real time but you need to give your users time to view your site.

Setting up Heatmaps in depth:

1. Click on the heatmap link in your conference websites dashboard.

2. Click on the link to https://heatmap.me/

3. Register on Heatmap and then once done, click on the link to WordPress site

4. Back on Admin you should see a link to Active

5. View a page on your site – the one you’d like to add tracking to. Once on the page click on the link to heatmap on the left hand corner

6. Switch on Record

7. Give it some time and then view the page you are tracking within the administration screens.

Say you want to track the number of hits to a particular URL (e.g. www.yoururl.com/abc). Or maybe you want to promote a more attractive URL for a particular page or URL, well you can now use the redirection feature.

ADMIN > Tools > Redirection

Just enter your new nice URL and the URL to direct into.

The number of hits to the URL is displayed in the report.

This functionality is used if you might want to jump to specific sections of a page.

A few examples:

Jump to Section 5 – http://demo.conference-websites.co.uk/anchor-tag-shortcodes/#section5

And then Jump to section 2 – http://demo.conference-websites.co.uk/anchor-tag-shortcodes/#section2

To use this feature:

To add the point you jump to, copy and past the following text into the section of the page you want to jump to: “[anchor id=”section1″]”.

To link to this page add the text #section1 to the end of the page name.

Example text from the examples above:

You can then add this to menu items or any page content.

To do this, use the Custom Link section of the menu administration:

API: a set of functions and procedures that allow the creation of applications which access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service.

What does this mean to you?

In short: Your Event App can pull the content from your website.

We’ll for sometime now, we have been selling third-party apps and more often being asked to integrate with event apps. It seemed crazy (and time-consuming) to you (and therefore us), that you would have to enter content into the website and an APP.

So we have been working with Double Dutch to create the API.

What content can you send to the APP?

Seminars, Speakers, Sponsors.

What is the price?

£350 for the year. Please get in-touch if you are interested in using, buying or integrating.

The following calculations compares the processing and credit card fees of EventBrite vs our internal online payment registration system – CWTickets.

To use the form just enter figures for the Number of expected delegates and price per ticket. The form will then calculate the comparible prices of using EventBrite or CWTickets.

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The new CTA Call to Action button system inserts fancy looking buttons into the page content of your site.

What do they look like:

They Look Like this

And then can also look like this:

An example with an icon

How to Use:

Click on the “Insert Button” button within the page editor:

Then complete the form – selecting from the many different options defining style and colour:

The developer diary let's you in on the behind the scenes of the conference websites product. As a monthly section we'll aim to keep you up to date on the full list of amends that take place across the platform so you can keep up with what's fixed and what we've been working on.

July and August have merged into a long run of developments. With new secretive functionality just over the horizon (to be announced soon) we’ve been busy behind the scenes. Whilst we’ve been working on a lot of structural changes in the foundations of the code we’ve also been able to dish out a new round of functional and aesthetic features for this new version.

Conference Websites Major updates

Upgraded to WordPress 3.9
Better inline image editing, resizing images in the editor
Drag and Drop images in the editor
New ‘Call to Action’ button creation tool (Only available on the 2014 theme
New Image thumbnail editor, allows better refinement specifically for speaker images.

2014 Theme

NEW anchor shortcode added. Use [anchor id=”example”] to create an anchor point
NEW supporting CSS for the new CTA button tool
NEW new option to adjust text color of the footer disclaimer
NEW options set for the editable thumbnails. Hides all image sizes by default, then adds required ones.
NEW new search engine optimisation fields for pages, can now edit page description/title
NEW support css for gravity forms Poll’s extension plugin
NEW support for exhibitor single pages ( not relevent right now 😉 )
NEW Support for the Post Thumbnail Editor plugin including default option values
NEW noIndex setting to pages. This also hooks into the sitemap to remove the page from the sitemap
Fixed bug with the taxonomy templates not pulling in the correct data
Fixed shortcode edit links broken in wp 3.9
Tweaks to sidebar nav styling, allows the word conference to fit into a single half width button
Tweaks to mobile navigation to allow longer sublinks.
Tweaks made to the rounded corner settings on sidebar widgets (now keeps a square corner top left if there is a title)
Updated: mobile version spacing and padding
Updated: Re-Enabled the iframe shortcode admin as this had been blocked
Updated: Sponsor logo size increased in sidebar widget
Updated: reworking of the media upload script to allow gallery selection in preparation
Updated CSS for footer content to ensure disclaimer and nav can sit side by side.
Updated styling and layouts of taxonomy pages to allow more content to be added without breaking aesthetic
Updated seminar time picker to allow full 24 hours
Removed hardcoded meta data from <head>. It’s now added using wp_head hook from plugin
Removed code flipping the holding theme back on in odd circumstances
Removed redundent admin columns from media and pages view in preparation for the media library plugin

Seminars

Fixed issue with wp 3.9 with shortcode edit buttons breaking the text editor
Fixed issue with the speaker role reordering (this issue is a TB fix from several months ago – code has been tested and works fine but worth watching for any future issues incase this wasn’t finished code)
Tweaked the default speaker avatar on the seminar list
Removed seminar quick edit functionality as it no longer worked and looked awful anyway. No usability loss.

Speakers

New Editable speaker thumbnails for more precise control over the images
Updated added specific editable image size for featured speaker thumbnail to the featured speaker layout
Fixed issue with shortcode edit buttons on wp 3.9

Conference Websites 2012 Theme

This theme is currently on a ‘support only’ status, as you can tell we’re not giving it the full backing of the 2014 theme, the reason is that the frame of the system is too dated, so we built a new theme (2014) which users can upgrade to for free by contacting us.

Fixed issue with wp 3.9 with shortcode edit buttons breaking editor
Removed quick edit functionality as it no longer worked and looked awful anyway. No usability loss.
Fixed issue with the speaker role reordering
Tweaked the default speaker avatar on the seminar list

June Developer Diary

Polls are an important tool to get quick feedback from your users. We have launched an easy to use, feature rich Polls system.

And here’s how to do it:

Features:

Seamless Integration.
Public or Private Poll Results: Poll results are only displayed to the user when using the Poll Widget or Shortcodes. This makes it easy to poll users on any type of form, including order forms!
Gravity Forms Powered: Conditional logic, limiting after a certain date or number of votes… it’s no different than creating any form in Gravity Forms!

The developer diary let's you in on the behind the scenes of the conference websites product. As a monthly section (starting today) we'll aim to keep you up to date on the full list of amends that take place across the platform so you can keep up with what's fixed and what we've been working on.

Mike joined the team as a specialist in PHP development and an immense knowledge of server setup and optimisations.

Throughout June Mike and Dom have been paying a lot of attention to the server setup. Readjusting some of the foundations of Conference Websites. This should give a tighter hold on our development environment as we’ve switched our version control hosts but also some optimisations on the server. Whilst there isn’t any immediate reward on this switch it will mean bugs and new features can blast through development much quicker in future.

Due to the nature of the server work it’s blocked the product development in June but we’ve still managed to get some vital fixes and tweaks through.

Changelog

New Features

NEW Product highlighter added as a standard feature across 2014 theme sites.
NEW anchor shortcode added. Use [anchor id=”example”] to create an anchor point

Updates / Changes / Fixes

Updated: seminar time picker to allow full 24 hours
Updated: Fixed issue with the initial splash theme creating a site with the new template
Fixed: issue with the speaker role reordering
Fixed: Missing image for the the default speaker avatar on the seminar list
Removed: quick edit functionality to adjust session times as it no longer worked. Due to the new taxonomies added this feature has become bloated so decision was made to remove as it’s no longer quicker to use the quick-edit.
Updated: Clean up in seminar coding to avoid clash with main events plugin.

We have partnered with Credit Card processing company Stripe.com and Gravity Forms – the leading WordPress Form builder (packaged with Conference-Websites).

The price for this is £350 setup with the following Stripe processing fees – 20p + 2.4%. For further information on pricing, please visit:

https://stripe.com/pricing

Please contact us for more information – [email protected].