Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! for WordPress Plugin Directory
Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! is a WordPress app, with a 4.2 average rating from 547 reviews, as of July 8, 2026.
Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Marcus (aka @msykes). With a rating of 4.2★ from 547 reviews.
AppRanks data: Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! ranks #0 in Bookings on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
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Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! is a well-rated WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Tickets category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 547 reviews show steady adoption but the app hasn't crossed the heavy-volume bar yet. Review accumulation at this stage tends to come from segment-specific use cases rather than universal adoption, so fit-to-stack matters more than category-leader brand recognition. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Marcus (aka @msykes) — established developer track record
Cons
- −Sparse visual evidence (0 screenshots) — harder to evaluate the UX before installing
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How Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! works
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Events Manager is a full-featured event calendar, bookings, appointments, scheduling, and registration management plugin for WordPress ideal for everything from simple meetups to full-scale event planning. Built with flexibility, reliability and powerful features in mind.
Demo
Documentation
Tutorials
Main Features
NEW Integrate easily with your favourite AI via MCP, unlock the power of AI-powered Events!
NEW API Rest Integration
Beautiful calendars, search pages, lists, grids and booking forms to enhance your site events.
Easy event registration (single day with start/end times)
Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration
Build complex recurrence patterns with exclusion/blackout dates
NEW Multiple timeslots within the day for events with advanced creation options
Overlapping timeslots
Buffer between timeslots
Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!)
Multiple Tickets
Fully-featured graph and statistics including bar/line/pie with comparison and stacking
MultiSite Event Support
Cross-Network Event Sharing – show your events and booking fromss on other subsites or main site
Network-wide Global Booking Management
BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Support
Create modular (independent) event subsites or inter-networked events
Multiple custom event types (Archetypes), such as Workshops, Events, Webinars, Appointments etc.
Customize your labels, slugs and CPT names
Enable or disable specific features for specific event archetypes.
Multiple Location Types
Physical Locations
Online Events (URLs)
Zoom Webinars/Meetings Integration
BuddyPress & BuddyBoss Support
Submit Events
Group Events
Personal Events
Activity Stream
more on the way
Guest/Member Event submissions
Assign event locations and view events by location
Event categories
Easily create custom event attributes (e.g. dress code)
Google Maps (see our API usage recommendations)
Advanced permissions – restrict user management of events and locations.
Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars
Fine grained control of how every aspect of your events are shown on your site, easily modify templates from the settings pages and template files
iCal Feed (single and all events)
Add to Google Calendar buttons
RSS Feeds
Compatible with SEO plugins
Timezone Support – create events in different timezones
Plenty of template tags and shortcodes for use in your posts and pages
Gutenberg block editor support, with native blocks for the Events Calendar, Events List, and Locations List — usable in posts, pages, the site editor and the widget editor
Actively maintained and supported
Lots of documentation and tutorials
NEW Gutenberg Supported
And much more!
AI Integration AI is here, and we’re on board! Check out what’s possible with our new and evolving AI integration possibilities:
Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance We provide the tools to help you be GDPR compliant, including:
export/erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools, including booking, event and location data
consent checkboxes on our booking, event and location forms on the frontend
settings to control what can be exported/erased as well as where/when to place consent requests
sample text for your site privacy policy describing what Events Manager does with personal data
Premium Features We have a premium Pro add-on for Events Manager which not only demonstrates the flexibility of Events Manager, but also adds some important features including but not limited to:
WooCommerce integration (sold separately)
PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net and Offline Payments
Custom booking forms
Individual Attendee custom forms
Upload fields for bookings, attendees and users
Printable Invoices and Tickets
Send PDF tickets/invoices by email automatically
Check In/Out
Move bookings to other dates/times
QR Scanning
Manage bookings on your phone
Check In/Out users
Waitlists
Automation – ultimate flexibility in automation!
Triggers:
X time before/after events start
When a booking status changes
When a booking was booked x time ago
Actions
Send Webhook (Zapier, MS Automation and many other services)
Send Email
Send WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram notifications
WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram integration and interactive flows
Coupon Codes
Custom booking email per event and gateway
Faster support via private Pro forums
For more information or to go pro, visit our plugin website.
Additional Plugin Integrations Whilst there’s many third party integrations with our own plugin, here’s some we’ve integrated ourselves!
Included in Events Manager (automatic integration)
BuddyPress
WP FullCalendar
Thrive Automator
Additional Add-Ons
Zoom
WPML Multilingual Sites
Category rankings
As of Jul 8, 2026- Bookings#0of 11Top 1%
- Tickets#0of 33Top 1%
- Calendar#3of 433Top 1%
- Events#3of 396Top 1%
- Block#7of 569Top 2%
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Keyword rankings
Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! ranks for 8 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 3:
- 1.ai agentRank #67
- Rank #79
- Rank #81
Competitors & alternatives
Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!doesn't have curated competitor matchups yet. Other tracked tickets apps on WordPress:
Frequently asked questions
What is Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!?
Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.2-star rating from 547 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Tickets category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Marcus (aka @msykes).
Who uses Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!?
Currently around 70,000 active stores have installed Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!. Its review base of 547 suggests adoption is concentrated in growth-stage and mid-market stores. It is part of the Tickets category on WordPress.