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Getting Started: Setting up your work environment

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Brent Christensen edited this page Sep 9, 2021 · 3 revisions

Since Event Espresso is a collection of WordPress plugins, the first thing you will need to do is setup some kind of local WordPress development environment. We recommend one of the following:

Once you have your environment up and running, you will need to install and/or configure the following if you don't already have them setup:

and then of course you'll need to install and configure WordPress (if not using Local by Flywheel)

Once you have a basic site up and running properly:

  • open up a terminal

  • navigate to your wordpress installation's wp-content/plugins folder and run the following commands:

    # clone the Event Espresso core plugin repo:
git clone git@github.com:eventespresso/event-espresso-core.git
# clone the barista repo
git clone git@github.com:eventespresso/barista.git
cd barista
yarn

  • now switch over to your browser and:

    • log into your WordPress dev site (if not already)
    • go to the plugins page
    • activate Event Espresso
    • activate Event Espresso Barista

The Event Espresso submenu should appear at the bottom of the admin menu. If so, then congrats, you're ready to start using Event Espresso. Visit the "Events" admin page and click on the "Add New Event" button to create your first event.

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