Site Guide and Documentation

Last Updated 10/7/2020

The Woodworking Shows' website utilizes several different software applications that are outlined below. It is important to understand the basic overview of what each software is responsible for in your site's operations.

WordPress

This is the content management system, or CMS. Basically this is like the foundation that the rest of the site and the plugins depends on.

Woocommerce

This is an ecommerce extension for WordPress. It adds the ability for WordPress to provide a shopping cart experience for the visitors. It is highly extendable through plugins.

Authorized.net

This is the payment gateway/processor your site uses for payments. It is enabled through a plugin for Woocommerce.

The Events Calendar

This is a plugin for WordPress that adds the ability to document and search events.

Event Tickets

This is a plugin that allows users to register for events.

Tickets Plus

This is a plugin that adds ecommerce features to the events calendar. It integrates events and woocommerce . A product type, tickets, allows you to create and associate ticket products to an event.

Divi

This is a theme that adds a visual editing experience to WordPress. It supplies the page builder used to edit most of the site.