Documentation & Help

1. Getting Started

Overview & Core Concept – What Event Exhibitor Manager offers and how directory, hall plan, admin, and calendar connect.
Glossary, Guest Features & Limits – The 12 key terms, what guests can do without an account, and what the plugin deliberately does not do.
System Requirements – Minimum requirements for server, WordPress, PHP, database, and SVG upload permissions.
Installation & Activation – Step-by-step guide to installing and activating the plugin in WordPress admin.
Quick Setup in Six Steps – Framework, event, first exhibitor and directory page – in the right order.
Without a WordPress website – Add your hall plan and exhibitor list to websites that do not run on WordPress: via subdomain, link or iframe.

Exhibitor Directory [event_exhibitor_list] – The main exhibitor directory featuring grid and table layouts, search, and faceted filters.
Interactive Hall Plan [event_hall_plan] – Vector floor plan with clickable booths, zoom, info sheet and the hall, booth and height parameters.
Detail Page vs. Modal Pop-up – How exhibitor details are presented: smooth modal pop-up or standalone detail page.
Featured Exhibitors – The row above the list: switch it on at the event, mark exhibitors, position and auto-advance.
Favorites & QR Code Transfer – Bookmark booths without registration and transfer saved lists via mobile QR code.
Interactive Shortcode Generator – Interactive admin builder to generate configured shortcode tags with 1 click.

Creating an Exhibitor – Step-by-step: company name, square logo, booth IDs, description, and map visibility.
Contact Details & 24 Social Links – Contact block and 24 link platforms in six groups – short forms like @name are enough.
Locations, Halls & Booth Numbers – Booth numbering formats, shared multi-booths, and global pre-launch booth privacy.
Conference Schedule & Speaker Bridge – Bridge to Convention Schedule Planner: linking stage talks, workshops, and booths.

Exhibitor Types & Categories – The five lists compared; types with color and fallback logo, categories from the guests’ view.
Products & Merchandise Tags – Managing product tags and enabling the 'Direct Sales at Booth' attendee filter.
Countries & SVG Flags – International reach: 2-letter ISO codes, bundled SVG flags, and custom display labels.
Locations & Hall Overview – Creating halls and rooms, what saving a hall plan creates automatically, and tidying up.

Admin Dashboard & 11-Point Check – Real-time metrics and an 11-point data audit ensuring complete exhibitor profiles.
Exhibitor Mass Editor (Bulk Editor) – Edit directly in the table, nine bulk actions, column selection and the “Autosave” switch.
Plugin Settings Reference – All seven tabs with defaults: Design & Display, Functions & Defaults, Labels & Texts, Security & Maintenance.
Full-screen & App – Hall plan and exhibitor list as full-screen pages, app mode with a bottom bar and the settings shared with the calendar.
Setting up the full-screen pages as a PWA – Step by step: create the manifest, service worker and offline page, and install the full-screen pages like an app.
API Tab: Setting Up the Interface – Switch on the public API, choose the data scope, issue a key per partner and test it.
CSV Import & Export – The 46 columns, target event, what an import overwrites, and the settings backup.
Print, PDF Export & Booth Signs – Map with exhibitor list, a plain list for the fair guide and one booth sign per exhibitor.

Preparing the SVG Hall Plan – Naming booth areas after the booth number, floors and rooms in one file, and what must be right in the file.
Adding the Hall Plan & Linking Booths – Adding an SVG map, the import dialog with floors and rooms, uploading a new version – and the one rule for booth numbers.
Touch Gestures & Controls – Zooming and panning on phone and desktop, switching floors, the info sheet and the ways into the plan.
Map Modes: Classic, Campus, Fairground – Classic plan, site plan with clickable buildings or all halls on a map – setup in the event, map service and consent.
Search & Quick Filters in the Plan – Switching on the map search, nine quick filters, assigning exhibitor types and the shortcode attributes search and quick_filters.
Location Points & QR Codes – Placing points in the designer, printing QR codes, where the code leads, scans and what happens next year.

Overview, Installation & First Start – What the add-on does and doesn’t do, requirements, installation and the way into the editor.
Interface & Drawing – Editor layout, the tools, floors, underlay with scale and the most important shortcuts.
Shapes, Walkways, Symbols & Info Cards – Shapes and curved edges, booths with logos, walkways and arrows, stairs and elevators with floor links, symbols, info cards, layers and export.
Booth Rows, Rooms & Appearance – Whole rows with a numbering scheme, renumbering, rooms and click IDs, colours, patterns and colour themes.
Assigning Exhibitors & Check Report – Exhibitors onto booths by drag & drop, what is written on saving, and the check report.
Existing Plans, Saving & Export – Taking over existing SVG plans and last year’s plan, backups, publishing, concurrent editing and export.

REST API Endpoints – Public REST endpoints under /wp-json/event-exhibitor-manager/public/v1 for native apps and kiosks.
Actions, Filters & Overrides – Replacing the single page in the theme and the real filters for permissions, countries and backup.
CSS Custom Properties & Theming – The four color variables and the most important classes of directory, pop-up and hall plan.

Frequently Asked Questions – 40 answers on directory, hall plan, Hall Plan Designer, exhibitor maintenance, import, print and interface – expandable, grouped by topic.
Troubleshooting & Diagnostics – From “Page not found” to silent booths and 403 in the Mass Editor – cause and fix.
Expo Launch Timeline Checklist – Proven expo timeline: from 8 weeks before launch down to post-show analytics.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) – Team capabilities matrix: administrator, editor, author and contributor.