The Events Calendar is a WordPress app, with a 4.2 average rating from 2,444 reviews, as of July 8, 2026.
The Events Calendar is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Nexcess. With a rating of 4.2★ from 2,444 reviews.
AppRanks data: The Events Calendar ranks #0 in Event on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
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The Events Calendar is a well-rated WordPress app with an established review history. It is listed in the Event category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 2,444 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
- +2,444 reviews provide statistical reliability for the rating average
- +Published by Nexcess — established developer track record
Cons
- −No declared third-party integrations on the listing — verify compatibility with your existing tools before installing
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How The Events Calendar works
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Easily create and manage an events calendar on your WordPress site with The Events Calendar free plugin. Whether your events are in-person or virtual events, this WordPress calendar plugin boasts professional features backed by our world-class team of developers and designers.
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Packed with loads of features, The Events Calendar is ready to go out of the box. It’s also extensible, easy to use, and completely customizable.
📅 The #1 Calendar for WordPress See the calendar in action on our demo experience. Just getting started? Read through the New User Primer to get set up.
Looking for additional features like recurring events, ticket sales, user-submitted events, automatic imports, and more?
Check out Events Calendar Pro, Event Aggregator, and more add-ons.
🔌🎨 Plug and Play or Customize The Events Calendar is built to work out of the box. Simply install the plugin, configure your settings, and start creating events in minutes.
Want to add your personal touch? Use The Events Calendar as the foundation for customization. Personalize to your heart’s content with the help of a skeleton stylesheet, partial template overrides, template tags, hooks and filters, careful documentation, and a library of free extensions.
Whether your vision is big or small, you’re in good company. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses, musicians, venues, restaurants, and non-profits are publishing and promoting their in-person and virtual events with The Events Calendar. Our plugins have also been scaled to work on large networks for Fortune 100 companies, universities, and government institutions.
✨ Features Our feature-rich plugin comes with everything you need to create and manage your calendar.
✔️ Rapidly create events
✔️ Saved venues & organizers
✔️ Calendar month view with tooltips
✔️ Event List view
✔️ Day view
✔️ Block Editor support
✔️ Event search
✔️ Google maps
✔️ Widget: Upcoming events list
✔️ Events Taxonomies (Categories & Tags)
✔️ Google Calendar and iCal exporting
✔️ WP REST API endpoints
✔️ Completely ajaxified for super smooth browsing
✔️ Completely responsive from mobile to tablet to desktop
✔️ Tested on the major theme frameworks such as Avada, Divi, Enfold, Genesis, and many more.
✔️ Increase your SEO with JSON-LD Structured Data
✔️ Internationalized & translated
✔️ Multiple stylesheets to improve integration
✔️ Extensive template tags for customization
✔️ Hooks & filters galore
✔️ Caching support
✔️ Debug mode for developers
✔️ Library of extensions
📃 Documentation All of our documentation can be found in our Knowledgebase.
Additional helpful links:
The Events Calendar New User Primer
The Themer’s Guide to The Events Calendar
If you have any questions about this plugin, you can post a thread in the WordPress.org forum. Please search existing threads before starting a new one.
Add-Ons Take your calendar to the next level by pairing it with our plugins for ticketing, crowdsourcing, email marketing, and more. Learn more about all our products on our website.
Our Free Plugins:
🎟️ Event Tickets
📐 Advanced Post Manager
Our Premium Plugins and Services:
⚡ Events Calendar PRO
↪️ Event Aggregator (service)
🎟️ Event Tickets Plus
✉️ Promoter
👥 Community Events
✏️ Filter Bar
🗓️ Eventbrite Tickets
Help If you aren’t familiar with The Events Calendar, check out our New User Primer. It will have you creating events in no time.
Ready to dig deeper? Check out these resources:
Tutorials
Release Schedule
Known Issues
Documentation
Help Videos
Release Notes
We check in on the The Events Calendar forum here on WordPress.org about once a week to help users with basic troubleshooting and identifying bugs. If you’re looking for premium, personalized support, consider upgrading to Events Calendar Pro.
Still have a question? Shoot us an email at [email protected].
Category rankings
As of Jul 8, 2026- Event#0of 62Top 1%
- Organizer#0of 8Top 1%
- Schedule#0of 45Top 1%
- Calendar#1of 433Top 1%
- Events#1of 396Top 1%
- _browse_blocks#13of 427Top 4%
- _browse_popular#95of 508Top 19%
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Competitors & alternatives
The Events Calendardoesn't have curated competitor matchups yet. Other tracked event apps on WordPress:
Where The Events Calendar stands in the Event category
The Events Calendar ranks #0 of 62 apps in the Event category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is The Events Calendar?
The Events Calendar is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.2-star rating from 2,444 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Event 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 Nexcess.
Who uses The Events Calendar?
Currently around 700,000 active stores have installed The Events Calendar. Its review base of 2,444 signals a mature user community spanning small, mid-market, and enterprise merchants. It is part of the Event category on WordPress.