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Conference Manager is a WordPress plugin designed for academic societies and conference organizers. It provides end-to-end management of event registration, payments, and document generation.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Member management (import/export via CSV/Excel)</li>
<li>Event and session management</li>
<li>Registration forms with group (team) registration support</li>
<li>Bank transfer and Stripe credit card payment</li>
<li>Automatic invoice and receipt PDF generation</li>
<li>Participant list and MyPage (with Passkey/WebAuthn authentication)</li>
<li>AES-256-GCM encryption for personal data</li>
<li>Audit logging, rate limiting, and bot protection</li>
<li>Transactional email notifications (OTP, confirmations)</li>
<li>SNS share buttons (Twitter/X, Facebook, LINE)</li>
<li>Full Japanese / English localization</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the following external services.
<h4>Stripe Payments (optional)</h4>
When the site administrator configures Stripe API keys (Secret and Publishable) under Conference → Setup, and a participant chooses Stripe at checkout, the plugin:
<ul>
<li>Loads Stripe.js from <code>https://js.stripe.com</code> on the registration page.</li>
<li>Creates a PaymentIntent on Stripe’s servers via the Stripe PHP SDK.</li>
<li>Stripe Elements (an iframe hosted by Stripe) collects the card data directly; the card number never touches the WordPress server.</li>
<li>Optionally receives webhook callbacks from Stripe to confirm payment status.</li>
</ul>
What data is sent to Stripe:
<ul>
<li>Payment amount and currency.</li>
<li>Participant email address (for Stripe receipts).</li>
<li>Billing details if provided by the participant.</li>
<li>Registration ID and registration number as metadata.</li>
</ul>
When:
<ul>
<li>Only when a participant selects Stripe as the payment method and submits the registration form.</li>
<li>When Stripe sends a webhook back to the site (server-to-server callback).</li>
</ul>
Links:
<ul>
<li>Stripe Terms of Service: <a href="https://stripe.com/legal/ssa" rel="nofollow ugc">https://stripe.com/legal/ssa</a></li>
<li>Stripe Privacy Policy: <a href="https://stripe.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://stripe.com/privacy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>IPAex Font Download (PDF generation)</h4>
To render Japanese text in PDF documents (invoice, receipt), the plugin needs the open-source IPAex Gothic and IPAex Mincho fonts. From the admin Dashboard you can install them with one click; the plugin then downloads the font files (one-time, per font). No user data is transmitted — it is a file download only. If the server cannot reach the download host, you can instead upload the <code>.ttf</code> files directly from the Dashboard (no external connection required).
<ul>
<li>Download host (mirror maintained by the plugin author): <a href="https://cs24.biz/conference/fonts/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://cs24.biz/conference/fonts/</a></li>
<li>Data sent: none (file download only)</li>
<li>The download URL can be overridden via the <code>conf_manager_font_source_url</code> filter.</li>
<li>Original font source / IPAex Font License (IPA, Information-technology Promotion Agency): <a href="https://moji.or.jp/ipafont/license/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://moji.or.jp/ipafont/license/</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Development / Building from source</h3>
The admin and public interfaces are built with React (JSX). The human-readable 
source for the compiled, minified bundles <code>build/admin-app.js</code> and 
 build/public-app.js is shipped inside this plugin under the <code>src/</code> directory:
<ul>
<li><code>src/admin/</code> — source for <code>build/admin-app.js</code> (admin dashboard app)</li>
<li><code>src/public/</code> — source for <code>build/public-app.js</code> (public registration / MyPage app)</li>
</ul>
Build toolchain: the project uses <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/scripts" rel="nofollow ugc">@wordpress/scripts</a> 
(a wrapper around webpack and Babel). The webpack configuration is included as 
 webpack.config.js, and all dependencies and build scripts are declared in 
 package.json (with <code>package-lock.json</code> for reproducible installs).
To rebuild the compiled assets from source:
<ol>
<li>Install Node.js 18+ and npm.</li>
<li>From the plugin directory, run <code>npm install</code>.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code>. This regenerates <code>build/admin-app.js</code> and 
 build/public-app.js (and their <code>*.asset.php</code> dependency manifests). 
Use <code>npm start</code> for an unminified development watch build.</li>
</ol>
Third-party libraries bundled into the compiled JavaScript (all open source, 
installed from the public npm registry and declared in <code>package.json</code>):
<ul>
<li><code>@stripe/react-stripe-js</code> and <code>@stripe/stripe-js</code> — Stripe Elements payment UI (MIT)</li>
<li><code>html5-qrcode</code> — QR code scanner used for participant check-in (Apache-2.0)</li>
</ul>
WordPress-provided packages (<code>wp-element</code>, <code>wp-components</code>, <code>wp-api-fetch</code>, 
 wp-i18n, <code>react</code>, <code>react-jsx-runtime</code>) are declared as externals and are NOT 
bundled — they are loaded from WordPress core at runtime.

ConferenceManager

Academic conference management plugin — registration, payment, and document automation for scholarly events.

Simon Wheatley

This plugin allows you to create a conference schedule in your WordPress website. You can create pages for speakers and sessions, and display an automatically created schedule of what’s on.
The participant pages can be created with different roles, e.g. Speaker, Workshop Leader, etc, and each have an image with automatically created thumbnails. A shortcode (<code>[participants]</code>) allows you to list all your speakers, with links through to read more about them.
Sessions are created with start and end times, and allow you to specify a location and speaker. The main schedule and schedules for each location are automatically generated.
The plugin comes with a <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentyten" title="The TwentyTen theme on the WordPress themes repository" rel="ugc">Twenty Ten</a> child theme (<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes" title="The codex pages explaining WordPress child themes" rel="nofollow ugc">more on child themes</a>), which you can use out of the box or as a reference to create your own conference theme.
This plugin handles describing and scheduling your conference and the key participants, it does not handle the ticketing.
<h4>Template Tags</h4>
Eventually I plan to abstract much of the raw PHP in the Conference Schedule theme templates into template tags. For now here’s a few template tags as a statement of intent:
<pre><code><?php the_sessions( $before, $sep, $after ); ?> - Very similar to the built-in template tag `[https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_tags](the_tags)`, used within a participant loop this will list the sessions the current participant is taking part in. Devs: note that there is a filter `cs_the_sessions` you can use on the output of this template tag.

<?php get_the_sessions( $before, $sep, $after ); ?> - Very similar to the built-in template tag `[https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_tags](get_the_tags)`, used within a participant loop this will return a list of the sessions the current participant is taking part in. Devs: note that there is a filter `cs_session_links` you can use on the output of this template tag.

<?php has_schedule(); ?> - When used on a Session post in a Session loop, this will tell you whether the current session has a schedule set.

<?php the_start_time( $time_format, $short_time_format ); ?> - When used on a Session post in a Session loop, this will show the scheduled session start time. The `time_format` and `short_time_format` strings are optional and are used to provide a date format, they default to the values on the Conference admin screen under the Settings section of the WordPress admin area. If the time is on the hour then the `short_time_format` is used, this enables you to output `10am` instead of `10:00am`, thus saving space. Devs: Note that there is a `cs_the_start_time` filter you can use on the output of this template tag.

<?php get_the_start_time( $time_format, $short_time_format, $post ); ?> - The same as the `the_start_time` template tag, except it returns the time rather than printing it. Devs: Note that there is a `cs_get_the_start_time` filter you can use on the output of this function.

<?php the_end_time( $time_format, $short_time_format ); ?> - When used on a Session post in a Session loop, this will show the scheduled end time for this session. Otherwise identical to `the_start_time` above. Devs: Note that there is a `cs_the_start_time` filter you can use on the output of this template tag.

<?php get_the_end_time( $time_format, $short_time_format, $post ); ?> - The same as the `the_end_time` template tag, except it returns the time rather than printing it. Devs: Note that there is a `cs_get_the_end_time` filter you can use on the output of this function.
</code></pre>

Conference Schedule

Create a conference website, with speaker descriptions, session details and a schedule.

ConferenceManager vs Conference Schedule