WordPress Event Ticketing

After more than a decade in the WordPress ecosystem, Tickera has become something of a constant - a plugin that doesn’t need to shout to prove its worth. Thousands of event organizers around the world already rely on it daily, and many of them have been doing so for years. In a market where many products come and go, or reinvent themselves until they lose their original purpose, Tickera has managed to stay both stable and modern.

As we enter 2026, that mix of continuity and innovation is more relevant than ever. Because reliability isn’t built overnight - it’s maintained day after day, update after update, support ticket after support ticket. And if the past year is any indication, Tickera in 2026 will be a stronger, cleaner, and faster platform than ever before.

Keeping up with WordPress, one version at a time

In 2025, Tickera received ten core updates. This pace isn’t new for us; it’s just how we’ve always worked. Whenever a major WordPress release is announced, our team begins reviewing, testing, and adapting the code so that when the update goes live, Tickera is already prepared. That approach has kept event organizers safe from compatibility issues for more than a decade.

The same attention goes to every Tickera add-on. Each one - Bridge for WooCommerce, Seating Charts, and dozens of others - is reviewed and updated whenever WordPress evolves. Whether the change involves PHP behavior, database structure, or Gutenberg improvements, the entire ecosystem advances together.

The updates released during 2025 included a wide mix of technical refinements: new hooks for developers, security improvements for the barcode reader, cleaner scripts, better keyboard navigation,... the list goes on. While none of this is headline material, together these updates keep Tickera dependable, predictable, and ready for the next WordPress release.

Bridge for WooCommerce - the backbone of flexibility

For many users, Bridge for WooCommerce is where Tickera truly comes alive. It connects the worlds of event ticketing and e-commerce, letting organizers sell tickets like any other product while still enjoying all the event-specific logic Tickera brings.

Throughout 2025, this add-on received six updates, each one reinforcing its role as a bridge in the literal sense - between two evolving ecosystems. Version 1.6.6 introduced a brand-new tc_created_order_ticket_instance hook, giving developers a reliable trigger right after ticket creation. The same update added High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) integration, aligning Tickera with WooCommerce’s modern database architecture.

Admittedly, HPOS compliance was something we were asked about a lot - and we’ll be the first to say it took us longer than we wanted and hoped for. But there was a good reason: Tickera is not a single plugin. It’s an ecosystem of deeply interconnected add-ons. Before enabling HPOS, we had to make sure every one of them played nicely with it, including the particularly complex ones such as Seating Charts. Cutting corners simply wasn’t an option.

By October, version 1.6.8 delivered compliance with WooCommerce 10.1.2, enhanced checkbox field rendering, and cleaned up compatibility warnings.

To the average user, all of this translates to smoother checkouts, fewer conflicts, and better performance. To the developers and agencies that extend Tickera, it means a stable, predictable surface that can be safely customized and automated.

Seating Charts - smoother, faster, smarter

The Seating Charts add-on continued to evolve throughout 2025 with a focus on usability and flexibility. Among the new features, the custom background image option stood out. It had been one of the most requested features since the first release of the add-on, allowing organizers to tailor seat maps to match real venue layouts or brand visuals. Achieving this required rebuilding parts of the rendering logic so that seat overlays remain precisely aligned on every screen size.

Another major step was full HPOS compliance. For a long time, users had to keep WooCommerce’s legacy order storage active to maintain compatibility, and we knew that wasn’t ideal. Achieving HPOS support meant reworking how seating data interacts with orders and reserved seat management. An intricate task given how complex the add-on is. The effort paid off: the result is a faster, cleaner, and future-ready Seating Charts add-on.

CSV Export - faster insights for organizers

2025 also brought meaningful progress to one of the most practical tools in the Tickera ecosystem: the CSV Export add-on. For years, exporting attendee data was limited to a per-event basis. In 2025 that changed and organizers can now export attendees from multiple events in a single action. And based on the feedback from our customers this proved to be an enormous time-saver for those managing busy event schedules.

The new export engine also addresses formatting and alignment inconsistencies, improves handling of time zones for check-ins, and introduces filename sanitization to prevent errors during file generation. Together with its High-Performance Order Storage compatibility, CSV Export is now far more capable and resilient for large datasets.

For event teams who depend on accurate reporting, these updates make data handling faster, cleaner, and much less error-prone during and after the event.

Reliability through the years

In the constantly evolving world of WordPress plugins, consistency is rare. Many tools are short-lived or change direction entirely, leaving their users uncertain about the future.

Tickera has followed a different path. From day one, it was designed to be self-contained, license-based, and independent. There are no mandatory subscriptions or external dependencies - event organizers truly own their ticketing system. That independence has become a defining strength.

Thousands of license holders continue to run their events on Tickera year after year, from small community gatherings to large-scale conferences, festivals and all sorts of other events. Their loyalty has been earned through regular updates, clear communication, and software that behaves predictably in production environments.

Commitment through support - people behind the reliability

Technical excellence means little without the people who stand behind it. Our support team is a core part of why Tickera has stayed reliable for so long. They’re the ones answering tickets late at night, on weekends, or early Monday mornings when an organizer is setting up a last-minute event. They don’t work nine-to-five but until it’s solved. And when a customer faces a truly mission-critical issue, our support agents go all-in, all-hands-on-deck to get it fixed, no matter the day or the hour.

Their experience doesn’t stop at customer replies. Whenever a support case leads to an inventive solution, it’s documented and often transformed into a permanent knowledge resource. That’s how the Solutions section of our documentation came to exist - and it now includes over seventy detailed articles and grows constantly.

Several of these originated from direct user needs and have since become widely used, including:

• Content management for table of purchased tickets
• Printing tickets without downloading them
• Displaying attendee details in Checkinera immediately after check-in
• Front-end event statistics

Each started as a unique customer request and now benefits hundreds of organizers worldwide. This ongoing exchange between support and development ensures that real-world experience continues to shape Tickera’s growth.

Fresh content, stronger communication

Reliable software is supported by clear communication. Throughout 2025, we refreshed Tickera’s documentation, expanded the Solutions library, and kept the blog active. Each article addresses practical topics from based on the feedback from real event organizers and our own experience in the event organizing field.

We’ve also been experimenting lately with new tutorial formats and lightweight video walk-throughs, ensuring that no feature, however small, remains hidden behind menus or settings pages so you can expect more of this in the near future.

In 2026, this focus will continue with more integration examples, behind-the-scenes insights, and practical guidance for everyday use.

Looking ahead to 2026

Our priorities for the coming year build on what we’ve learned from thousands of users and countless support requests:

• Performance and efficiency. Ongoing refinement for modern caching and storage layers within WordPress and WooCommerce.
• Accessibility. Continued improvements to keyboard navigation and readability across templates and reporting interfaces.
• Developer empowerment. More hooks, better inline documentation, and improved stability for custom builds.

Alongside these improvements, two new add-ons are in development and scheduled for release in 2026.

The first will introduce a per-user ticket purchase limitation, giving event organizers full control over how many tickets a single customer can buy. This has been one of the most requested features, particularly for exclusive or limited-entry events, and it will integrate seamlessly with both standalone Tickera and Bridge for WooCommerce setups.

The second, called Chained Ticketing, will open entirely new possibilities. It allows one ticket type to become available only when another has sold out—think early-bird tickets giving way to regular pricing or special bundles unlocking after initial sales. While the concept is simple, its potential applications are huge, enabling organizers to automate tiered pricing, access rules, and promotional strategies without any manual intervention.

Both of these projects reflect our ongoing focus on flexibility and automation. They extend Tickera’s role beyond a ticketing plugin into a fully adaptable event management platform.

Reliability built over time

Every line of code, each changelog entry, and every resolved support ticket represents the same goal: a dependable ticketing system that evolves without disruption.

As 2026 begins, Tickera stands on more solid ground than ever. Compatibility with the latest WordPress and WooCommerce standards, constant attention to user experience, and an active, responsive support team ensure that thousands of event organizers can continue to trust it.

Fresh content, continued updates, same reliable ticketing - onward and upward!