Blocks for Eventbrite vs Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!

The simplest way to showcase Eventbrite events on your WordPress site. This plugin helps bridge the gap between WordPress and Eventbrite, while retaining the great user experience that Eventbrite provides. Your events live on Eventbrite where they belong — this plugin simply displays them with a beautiful, modern design. Why Choose Blocks for Eventbrite? 🪶 Truly Lightweight Unlike traditional event plugins, we don’t create WordPress posts, custom tables, or complex database structures. Your events are fetched directly from Eventbrite and intelligently cached for blazing-fast performance. 🛒 Seamless Checkout Experience Using Eventbrite’s embedded checkout, visitors can register and pay without ever leaving your website (SSL required). No redirects, no friction — just conversions. 🎨 Beautiful Out of the Box Modern card-based design with clean typography, subtle shadows, and smooth hover effects. Each event displays the image, date, venue, price, and a quick-details tooltip — all styled to look great on any theme. ⚡ Smart Caching Events are cached using WordPress transients, refreshing every minute. Your site stays fast while always showing up-to-date event information. Features Native Gutenberg Block — Just add the block and paste your API key Embedded Checkout — Let visitors register without leaving your site Event Status Filter — Display live, draft, or all events Flexible Sorting — Order by start date or event name (ascending/descending) Event Name Filter — Show only events matching specific keywords Limit Events Displayed — Control exactly how many events appear Custom Button Styling — Match your brand with custom colors and text Date & Time Formatting — Use WordPress formatting or customize your own Quick Details Tooltip — Visitors can preview event summaries instantly Venue Information — Automatically displays location details when available Live Editor Preview — See exactly how your events will look while editing Translation Ready — Fully internationalized for global sites No Database Bloat — Zero custom posts, zero custom tables Perfect For Event organizers who manage events on Eventbrite Businesses that host regular workshops, classes, or meetups Nonprofits promoting fundraisers and community events Anyone who wants events on WordPress without the maintenance headache

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 NEW EU Compliance Tools for “Right of withdrawal” (EU ‘Widerrufsbutton’) 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, Square, Xero 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