Part 5 – Putting it all together As I write this post the migrated Coconut Tickets built with Laravel has been live for 3 weeks without any major incidents. There have been some small bumps in the road but with careful scanning of log files and with caring users that do report problems, it has […]

Part 4 – What about plugins and themes? In this series so far we have explored why we decided to migrate Coconut Tickets from WordPress to Laravel, the strategy we decided on and the areas of technical migration. Unfortunately those steps were not enough to migrate the whole of the event ticketing platform to Laravel. […]

Part 3 – Technical Migration   In the last 2 parts of this series we explored the motivation behind taking the risk of migrating the successfully working Coconut Tickets platform from WordPress to Laravel and the strategy that was used. In this part we dive deeper into the technology and look at the big technical […]

Part 2 – Strategy In part one I explained the motivation to migrate the Coconut Tickets event ticketing platform from WordPress to Laravel. The implementation of the ticket design tools and transactional services of Coconut Tickets are achieved with one huge WordPress plugin. Coconut Tickets regularly sells events of ten thousand tickets at a time […]

Part 1 – Introduction I love WordPress and have used it to deliver literally hundreds of websites for my clients, but after I built my first commercial website in Laravel I was taken aback by how productive it was and I thought hard about why I had relied on WordPress for so long. Before any […]

Coconut Tickets Achieves 2 Esteemed Event Management Software Quality Certificates from Popular Platform for Software Reviews Simplifying ticketing for event organizers everywhere, Coconut Tickets has earned the quality recommendation of FinancesOnline, a popular directory for its reliable reviews on B2B and SaaS solutions. The website conferred us with the 2018 Premium Usability and Rising Star […]