Early last year, a local concert promoter came to me and asked me to build his company a ticketing website. He wanted to be able to sell tickets for the concerts that he promotes. Last year, the volume of his shows was too high to just write the occasional blog post promoting them or tweet links to an online box office.

He wanted a place where everyone who wanted to watch live music in my city (Cardiff, UK) could go to buy tickets for great shows.

We decided that WordPress would be the best way to meet his needs and I set about thinking about how to best implement the idea. This two-part tutorial will show you how you can run a similar website.

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In the first part of this tutorial we looked at the kind of things that you need to consider before you set to work and build your ticketing website template. Now, we’re going to add all the functionality you would want from a ticketing website.

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