• Zoom
• YouTube Live
• YouTube Private Recorded Event
• Google Meet
• Jit.si
• Vimeo
• Twitch
• Facebook Live
• Periscope
• Wistia
• RTMP Stream
• Other Live Stream
• Other Pre-Recorded Video of Event

Sometimes you can add a link for broadcasting your events using one of these services but the link does not work on the front end. In order to troubleshoot and fix this, please follow these steps:

• Please navigate to WP-admin > Settings > Permalinks and click save to flash your permalinks.
• Check for an empty space before the link as shown below and delete it:

This should fix the broken join link for your virtual events.

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According to the Jitsi website, the platform allows you to do the following:

• Share your desktop, presentations, and more
• Invite users to a conference via a simple, custom URL
• Edit documents together using Etherpad
• Pick fun meeting URLs for every meeting
• Trade messages and emojis while you video conference, with integrated chat.

You can now easily integrate Jitsi with your EventOn events in just a few clicks by following these steps:

1. Ensure that EventOn and Virtual Plus addon are installed and activated.

You can install and update EventOn plugin by downloading it from your Codecanyon account. You can follow our tutorial on how to install & activate Eventon. 

Please follow the steps from our general guide on how to install EventOn addons to install the Virtual Plus addon.

2. Create a new Event

On your WordPress dashboard click on Events > Add Event. Please follow our general guide on how to create a new event and update your event preferences.

3. Change Event Status

Change the event status from the default “Scheduled” option to “Moved Online”. This will ensure that the proper schema data will be applied to your event to help search engines identify the event type.

To ensure that you don’t run into any schema errors after publishing your events, scroll down to “Location and Venue” and select a location or create a new one as shown below:

4. Enable Virtual Events

Scroll down the Virtual Event option and toggle to enable virtual events on your new event and click the CONFIGURE VIRTUAL EVENT DETAILS button.

Next, choose Jitsi as the virtual event broadcasting method as shown below:

5. Click on Create Jisti Meeting button.

This button will automatically create the meet URL Id and also expose additional settings that you can configure for your video chat such as:

• Allow viewers to raise hand
• Enable Invite others
• Enable viewer to switch to fullscreen
• Enable viewer share desktop
• Enable Viewer to leave feedback
• Enable Speaker Stats
• Enable viewer to see keyboard shortcuts
• Enable mute everyone
• Enable viewer to record video
• Enable viewer to share a youtube video
• Start with audio muted
• Start with video muted

Remember to click on Update Jitsi Options after you are done making changes in this modal as shown below:

If you’d like to limit access to this event to certain event guests, you can also create a password and share it with your users on the following field:

The first time visiting the event page will prompt you to install Google calendar and Office 365 integration but these are not required for Jitsi to work. You can check the “Don’t show me this again” option and close the window as shown below:

On the same event settings page, you can configure some event details that will be displayed before or after the event starts.

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Compatibility

This addon integrates seamlessly with Event Tickets, Action User, RSVP, Event Countdown, and Reviewer addons.

Installation

Before getting started, be sure to install and update the EventOn plugin by downloading it from your Codecanyon account. You can follow our tutorial on how to install & activate Eventon.

Next, you’ll need to install and activate Virtual Plus addon by following our general guide about how to install EventOn addons.

Restricting access to virtual events using the RSVP addon

You can easily change the settings of your virtual event and limit access to RSVP’d guests. Here’s how to do it:

1. Create a new event or edit an existing virtual event and enable the “Allow visitors to RSVP to this event” option.

2. Within this section, configure your RSVP settings that will dictate how users will interact with the RSVP form on the front end. You can enable or disable one of these settings:

• Total Event RSVP capacity
• Show RSVP count for the event on EventCard
• Show guest list to event (on eventCard)
• Show guest list ONLY after RSVP-ing to event
• Show list of guests who are NOT coming to the event (on eventCard)
• Limit maximum capacity count per each RSVP
• Allow only logged-in users to RSVP to this event
• Activate event happening minimum capacity
• Show RSVP form within EventCard instead of lightbox
• Close RSVP before event start (in minutes)
• Show only certain additional fields in RSVP form (separated by commas)

Real-time Heartbeat Refresh

This feature allows real-time background refresh of all the data that is displayed in your event using heartbeat script. The information displayed includes remaining spaces and guests lists when RSVP events are enabled, pre-event and after-event information.

To enable this feature, click on EventON > Settings > Virtual Plus.

You can also configure the refresh rate of the above information from this section by selecting the time difference in seconds in the dropdown field as shown below:

You can toggle the last option on this page to prevent users from being forced to sign in to view event information. This feature applies to logged-in users that have RSVP or have an Event tickets account.

Jitsi Moderator Control

Our Jitsi integration allows you to assign a registered user in your site as the event moderator. You can do this by selecting a user from the following option on the Virtual Event section:

Next, enable this option:

Once these options are enabled, the integration will display a Blue button at the bottom of the Jitsi window to start and end the event:

Pre-Event Information

This feature will display some custom information for your guests before the event starts. You can use this option to display the meeting agenda or tutorials that can help guests to prepare for the meeting. This field accepts both text, HTML, and embedded content. The details will appear above the event card as shown below:

You get to control who will view & when this information will be displayed from the event settings as shown below:

After Event Content

To display some post-event content, navigate to the After Event Information section on the edit event page as shown below:

In this section, you can force a user to RSVP or purchase an event ticket before viewing the post-event information.

You can also prompt the guest to leave a review if you already have the Reviewer addon as shown below:

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v 0.1 (2021-2-18)
Initial release

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