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Comment on Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for Wordpress by John

John — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:47:07 +0000

I love how this is working! It’s so close to perfect for us! I was curious about a couple of things though:

Is there a way to change “Banquet” to “Reception”? Can I just search the code and replace all instances?

Also, when a guest logs in, it says “We have reserved 1 seat for you!” What about couples? Is there a way to activate a field that would say “Total number of guests (including yourself) will be attending…” and they could enter a number. Or do you just suggest giving each and every person a unique code? Seems unnecessary when most of our people are married. Should I just do it a different way?

You should be able to search the code and do a replace. If you have two people as a couple or more people as a family, give them all the same code. See the screenshot for an example

Otherwise.. Great job with this!

Comment on Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for Wordpress by Megq

Megq — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:00:59 +0000

Giff – Or anyone that can help…

I am for some reason getting the Oops error with every code I enter. I followed the steps correctly I believe, and I read earlier comments, I feel a little lost but think this is the perfect solution for my RSVP! Can you help me?

– Ok, this will take some php knowledge… good luck here, but you could try enabling the debug messages and using the information from those messages to figure more out: (Click on Plugins->Editor select the google docs guestlist, find lines like this:

$outputtext .= $e->getMessage() . " " . $e->getTraceAsString();

and uncomment them (remove the // that is in front). Then try running the rsvp and see what the error messages say. Good luck :/

Comment on Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for Wordpress by Blair

Blair — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:53:15 +0000

Oh, and btw our site was featured in newspapers and online press across Canada for an article we were interviewed for. Kewl!

Comment on Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for Wordpress by Blair

Blair — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:50:54 +0000

I think people have been punching in their code and then clicking send RSVP without selecting that they're attending or not. It goes through though. Is there a way to validate? Hmmm. Well if you are familiar with php, you could find the part of the code right before inputting in the db. (Around line 409) and add some code that checks the input? e.g. (

if ($_POST["guestname"] == "") {
$abort_and_reprint_form = true;
$outputtext .= "Oops, your name was blank.";
 break; 
}

(this is untested sample code) Sorry, this will only make sense to people who know PHP. I don't recommend trying this w/o someone's expertise. --- another solution is to look for javascript that will require certain fields to not be blank before submission. This code would have to be inserted somewhere in the original form. So that would go under the "edit" case (line 590 and after). note: $outputtext is the variable that holds all the html. -Good luck. And congrats. Giff

Comment on Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for Wordpress by Blair

Blair — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:24:29 +0000

Hey folks,

In the last couple of days, we received RSVP responses that are blank. And then today one came in blank, and they had written a comment, so we knew who it was.

What troubleshooting steps should be taken?

Comment on Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for Wordpress by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:57:18 +0000

Thought I should point out that you are giving me credit for answers that Giff wrote in reply to your questions, not me. You might want to thank him instead, he wrote the plugin, I just try and do a bit to help people out.

I’ve replied to your email, but i’m not sure if you still needed help or not.

Comment on Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for Wordpress by Mundo

Mundo — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:23:12 +0000

@andrew, I got it. Thank you for your help. I took your above suggestion and changed ceremony to reception. Thanks.

Comment on Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for Wordpress by Mundo

Mundo — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:18:47 +0000

@ Andrew. That worked and thank you. I’ll have to check into the guest count. Last thing, how would I change ceremony into reception? Thanks

Comment on Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for Wordpress by Mundo

Mundo — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:58:58 +0000

@andrew. Seems you have a good grasp on the plug in. How do I set it up to have just a ceremony option and a total guest option? Please email me at mundo@jeneandethmundo.com

Thank you in advance for your help.

You know, I don’t think Andrew has been to this site for a while. Anyways — if you are comfortable with the php, you could try to comment out the following code in the php:
$outputtext .= ' if (strcmp($entry["banquet"],"Not Attending")==0) $outputtext .= "checked='checked' "; $outputtext .= "/>Not Attending"; $outputtext .= " \n";
I think that works. Haven’t tested it.
As for the guest count, I would search the web for a tutorial on “google spreadsheet” and “count”

Comment on Google Docs RSVP Guestlist Plugin for Wordpress by Blair

Blair — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:02:02 +0000

Giff, this plugin is awesome! My fiancée and I were able to realize our plans for a green wedding with the help of this plugin.

Andrew, I think it’s great that despite your busy schedule, you are able to share your work on the plugin with the community.

I have figured out how to change the “Banquet” heading and question, but am have had to settle for asking people to put their email in the comments, and then manually copying that into my email merge sheet. Having discreet fields for details like email, etc, would be wonderful. I’m sure there are other changes that I would make upon studying your documentation. Thank you for taking the time to capture this information.

When you have a moment, please fire me an email with your notes. Thanks!
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Thanks for the feedback – I’m glad this was helpful -Giff