Alex,

On the WP front, I've used this plugin on small personal projects with
success: https://wordpress.org/plugins/spider-event-calendar/

Are you selling tickets to these?

This looks like it could possibly be a good fit as well:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-registration/

Hope that helps!

.m

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Alex Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Thanks for pitching in. COD looks good.
>
> On their site (http://usecod.com) I found the obligatory table of unfair
> feature comparisons. One of these is to an out-of-date WordPress plugin.
>
> Any WP suggestions?
>
> ('m not partial, but as of earlier today it looks like I might be using it
> for other, but affiliated reasons.)
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> On 10/15/2014 05:34 PM, Clapp, Sharon B. (Library) wrote:
>
>> Someone has mentioned Drupal's Conference Organizing Distribution, right?
>> https://www.drupal.org/project/cod
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Alex Armstrong
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 5:36 AM
>> To:[log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference site backend
>>
>> Let me try and ask this again, with less ambiguity:
>>
>> What built-in CMS functionality or plugin have you used to assist you in
>> managing a conference schedule and registration?
>>
>> Among other things, I'm in the market for a new CMS. So rather than the
>> specialized tool that Francis suggested, I'm looking for a multi-purpose
>> platform or a platform I can wrangle to serve multiple purposes.
>>
>> P.S. Confusingly, I switched my CODE4LIB subscription to a different
>> email.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>> On October 10, 2014 4:23:57 PM EEST, Francis Kayiwa<[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/10/2014 09:13 AM, Alex Armstrong wrote:
>>>
>>>    Hi list,
>>>>
>>>>   Not exactly related to libraries, but:
>>>>
>>>>   I'm putting together a site for the annual conference of a library
>>>> consortium. Last year we had paired a static site with an event
>>>> service
>>>>   (Sched) to manage the schedule and provide workshop sign ups. This
>>>> time  we'd like to move everything under one umbrella.
>>>>
>>>>   Any recommendations for a conference backend?
>>>>
>>>>   I'm looking for an open source solution I can deploy on a shared
>>>> hosting  plan. I'm not picky about the CMS. The current iteration is
>>>> put together  locally using a static site generator, so I can switch to
>>>> whatever.
>>>>
>>>>  Give Open Conference a looksie
>>>
>>> https://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> ./fxk
>>>
>>>
>>>
> --
> Alex
>