Integrating bookwhen.com and WordPress

Aug 2016

bookwhenbookwhen.com is a powerful online service which allows you to organise bookings and take payments for your workshops, events and courses. It operates on a monthly fee basis, which I think starts at £9 per month.

At time of writing, no WordPress plugin exists to integrate your bookwhen.com account and your WordPress website. But we’ve been working with a customer this month to get round that problem. They needed their bookwhen.com schedule to show up on their homepage and also on individual course pages.

Fortunately we found a way to do this. Though no direct plugin exists, bookwhen.com do allow site owners to publish their ical feeds. Now, mostly these are intended for importing into Google Calendar or Outlook. But it turns out, with a little bending and twisting – on our part – an ical feed can also be shown directly on your WordPress website.