ConferenceManager

ConferenceManager

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Conference Manager is a WordPress plugin designed for academic societies and conference organizers. It provides end-to-end management of event registration, payments, and document generation.

Features:

  • Member management (import/export via CSV/Excel)
  • Event and session management
  • Registration forms with group (team) registration support
  • Bank transfer and Stripe credit card payment
  • Automatic invoice and receipt PDF generation
  • Participant list and MyPage (with Passkey/WebAuthn authentication)
  • AES-256-GCM encryption for personal data
  • Audit logging, rate limiting, and bot protection
  • Transactional email notifications (OTP, confirmations)
  • SNS share buttons (Twitter/X, Facebook, LINE)
  • Full Japanese / English localization

External Services

This plugin connects to the following external services.

Stripe Payments (optional)

When the site administrator configures Stripe API keys (Secret and Publishable) under Conference Setup, and a participant chooses Stripe at checkout, the plugin:

  • Loads Stripe.js from https://js.stripe.com on the registration page.
  • Creates a PaymentIntent on Stripe’s servers via the Stripe PHP SDK.
  • Stripe Elements (an iframe hosted by Stripe) collects the card data directly; the card number never touches the WordPress server.
  • Optionally receives webhook callbacks from Stripe to confirm payment status.

What data is sent to Stripe:

  • Payment amount and currency.
  • Participant email address (for Stripe receipts).
  • Billing details if provided by the participant.
  • Registration ID and registration number as metadata.

When:

  • Only when a participant selects Stripe as the payment method and submits the registration form.
  • When Stripe sends a webhook back to the site (server-to-server callback).

Links:

IPAex Font Download (PDF generation)

To render Japanese text in PDF documents (invoice, receipt), the plugin needs the open-source IPAex Gothic and IPAex Mincho fonts. From the admin Dashboard you can install them with one click; the plugin then downloads the font files (one-time, per font). No user data is transmitted — it is a file download only. If the server cannot reach the download host, you can instead upload the .ttf files directly from the Dashboard (no external connection required).

Development / Building from source

The admin and public interfaces are built with React (JSX). The human-readable
source for the compiled, minified bundles build/admin-app.js and
build/public-app.js is shipped inside this plugin under the src/ directory:

  • src/admin/ — source for build/admin-app.js (admin dashboard app)
  • src/public/ — source for build/public-app.js (public registration / MyPage app)

Build toolchain: the project uses @wordpress/scripts
(a wrapper around webpack and Babel). The webpack configuration is included as
webpack.config.js, and all dependencies and build scripts are declared in
package.json (with package-lock.json for reproducible installs).

To rebuild the compiled assets from source:

  1. Install Node.js 18+ and npm.
  2. From the plugin directory, run npm install.
  3. Run npm run build. This regenerates build/admin-app.js and
    build/public-app.js (and their *.asset.php dependency manifests).
    Use npm start for an unminified development watch build.

Third-party libraries bundled into the compiled JavaScript (all open source,
installed from the public npm registry and declared in package.json):

  • @stripe/react-stripe-js and @stripe/stripe-js — Stripe Elements payment UI (MIT)
  • html5-qrcode — QR code scanner used for participant check-in (Apache-2.0)

WordPress-provided packages (wp-element, wp-components, wp-api-fetch,
wp-i18n, react, react-jsx-runtime) are declared as externals and are NOT
bundled — they are loaded from WordPress core at runtime.

Details

Plugin code:
conferencemanager
Plugin version:
1.1.2
Outdated:
No
WP version:
6.9 or higher
PHP version:
8.4 or higher
Test up to WP version:
7.0
Total installations:
0
Last updated:
2026-06-07
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Times rated:
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