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Room booking build log: Making it good enough to sell… Maybe!
In part one I got the basis of the plugin in place. Now I actually made it usable and added features/docs that mean it could be installed anywhere
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In part one I got the basis of the plugin in place. Now I actually made it usable and added features/docs that mean it could be installed anywhere
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The Google Maps API has the potential to cost money if you go over the fair use policy. But there is a great freebie alternative!
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We fixed this in the room booking plugin. A fortnight later we walked straight into the identical problem in the events plugin without recognising it.
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Got a venue with a load of rooms that you hire out? How about a plugin to help with that?
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Find out how I handle dates and times in the plugin. Definitely needed some thought, in particular multi-date events.
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So I'd built most of the gubbins to handle events themselves, but now we needed a way to handle the event venues - in itself a pretty large chunk of work.
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There is no register_post_type('gig') anywhere in it — and once a type is created, its key can never change again. Both of those are deliberate.
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The off-the-shelf options either wanted to run the whole box office, or needed other plugins bolted on. Surely it can't be that hard to do it myself?!