Custom confirmation pages with short codes
With custom confirmation pages you can send attendees to your own pages after registering for your webinar and instead of the build in page provided by WebinarPress.
Create a new page on your website with your preferred designer and add the short codes you want to complete the design then enable custom confirmation pages in your webinar.
Webinar name
Shows the name of the webinar
[webinarpress_confirmation_webinar_name]
Start time
Shows the webinar start time in the visitor's timezone and lets you choose a custom format.
[webinarpress_confirmation_starts_at]
Format
Change the date format by adding an optional "format" parameter. For example to display a date in the format " 3 Jan 2018 12:00" you would use the following short code. See below for a list of available format elements.
[webinarpress_confirmation_starts_at format="D MMM YYYY HH:mm"]
| Input | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
| YYYY | 2014 | 4 or 2 digit year |
| YY | 14 | 2 digit year |
| M | 1..12 | Month number |
| MM | 01..12 | Month number |
| MMM MMMM | Jan..December | Month name (see locale below) |
| D | 1..31 | Day of month |
| DD | 01..31 | Day of month |
| Do | 1st..31st | Day of month with ordinal |
| DDD | 1..365 | Day of month with ordinal |
| H | 0..23 | Hours (24 hour time) |
| HH | 00..23 | Hours (24 hour time) |
| h | 1..12 | Hours (12 hour time used with a A) |
| hh | 01..12 | Hours (12 hour time used with 'A') |
| A | am pm | Post or ante meridiem |
| m | 0..59 | Seconds |
| mm | 00..59 | Seconds |
Webinar Url
Show a link to the webinar but does not create a link element. This can be useful for adding the webinar link to your own buttons.
[webinarpress_confirmation_url]
Text link
Show a link to the webinar including the link element.
[webinarpress_confirmation_text_link text="Go to webinar"]
Parameters
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| text | Go to webinar | The text of the link |
| class | empty | An optional CSS class of the button |
Button link
Shows a link button for the attendee to join the webinar
[webinarpress_confirmation_button_link button_text="Join the webinar" size="medium"]
Parameters
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| button_text | Join the webinar | The text shown on the button |
| button_color | #9006f7 | Background color of the button in hex |
| text_color | #ffffff | Text color of the button in hex |
| size | small | Size of the button Possible values are small, medium, large |
| class | empty | An optional CSS class of the button |
| icon | none | Icon to show next to the button Possible values are calendar, video, link, play, add |
Add to calendar
Let attendees save the webinar to their calendar by adding a save to calendar button. When the attendee clicks on the button they'll see a list of supported calendar providers. Supported providers currently include Google, Apple Calendar, Outlook (desktop application) Outlook.com and Yahoo.
[webinarpress_confirmation_add_to_calendar button_text="Add to calendar" size="medium"]
Parameters
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| button_text | Add to Calendar | The text shown on the button |
| button_color | #9006f7 | Background color of the button in hex |
| text_color | #ffffff | Text color of the button in hex |
| size | small | Size of the button Possible values are small, medium, large |
| class | empty | An optional CSS class of the button |
| icon | calendar | Icon to show next to the button Possible values are calendar, video, link, play, add |
Enable custom confirmation pages
After setting up your custom confirmation page you need to configure your webinar to use the new page instead of the page generated by WebinarPress.
- Click on the webinar you want to change form the webinar list in your WordPress admin area.
- In the webinar settings click on the Confirmation tab
- Enable the Use Custom Page option
- Choose your page form the dropdown list
- Save your webinar
The next time someone registers for your webinar they'll be taken to your custom confirmation page.