Category Posts Block vs Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!

Category Posts Block is a light block designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category. Category Posts Block Use the “Category Posts” block in the Gutenberg editor to place the post list anywhere in your content. All options are available in the block sidebar panels: Title, Filter, Details, Thumbnail, Excerpt, Footer, Load more and General. Several blocks can be used on the same page, each with its own settings. Term and Category based Posts Block A premium version of that free block available at tiptoppress.com created for big WordPress sites. Premium features Auto-sizing Grid layout Custom field support in the Template Shortcode support in the Template Image-Slider (or News-Ticker) Asymmetrical list layouts Full background images Masonry responsive grid layout More complex filter (ANY, NOT, AND, …) Custom Post Types, Events, Products support All free features E-Mail support More examples on the demo pages Features Block for the block editor and Site Editor. Template to arrange the post details. The Template text can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or a font-icons. Font-icon support ‘Load more’ button / Ajax API Item Title heading level buttons Excerpt length and item title in lines (line-clamp) Date range filter New date format: Time since plublished Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private Add option for post offset (use two or more widgets after another) Admin UI: Buttons in the editor toolbar to insert shortcode Option to touch device friendly “everything is a link” Set thumbnail width & height / image crop with CSS (object-fit) Fluid images (max-width in %) One thumb dimension can be left empty Option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail Set a default thumbnail Hide widget text or text, if there is no post Option to hide posts which have no thumbnail Option exclude current post Option show post author, comment’s count, post date Admin UI: Set / find thumbnail size buttons: +, ¼, ½, 2x, -, ratio and Media sizes Admin UI: Buttons to easy add post details placeholder Documentation Full documentation Formatting date and time: See Formatting Date and Time Contribute While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at Github (If possible with a pull request).

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