Event Organiser vs Events Maker by dFactory

Event Organiser adds event management that integrates well with your WordPress site. By using WordPress’ in-built ‘custom post type’, this plug-in allows you to create events that have the same functionality as posts, while adding further features that allow you to manage your events. This includes the possibility of repeating your event according to complex schedules and assign your events to venues. This can all be done through an intuitive user interface, which allows you to view your events in the familiar WordPress list or in a calendar page in the admin area. User Docs | Function Reference | Forums | Demo | Booking Add-on Available Extensions Event Organiser Pro Event Organiser Frontend Submissions Discount Codes Stripe Gateway Posterboard (free) CSV export (free) iCal Sync A full list of available extensions can be found here. Features For the user Create one-time events or recurring events. Allows complex recurring patterns for events. You can create events that last an arbitrary time, and repeat over a specified period. Supports complex schedules such as On the third Tuesday of every fourth month or Every month on the 16th. Ability to add or remove specific dates to an event Event functions available which extend the post functions (e.g. the_title(),get_the_author(), the_author()) to output or return event data (the start date-time, the venue etc). For examples of their use see the documentation or the included template files. Create and maintain venues for your events, with Google maps support and a fully-featured content editor. Widgets: Calendar widget – displays a calendar (identical to the standard WordPress Calendar) Event List widget – displays a list of events, with options to specify the number of events, restrict by categories or venues etc. Event Agenda widget Year, month and day archive pages Shortcodes: (full)Calendar, includes optional category & venue filters. (widget) Calendar Event List (similar to Event List widget) Event Agenda (similar to Event Agenda widget) Venue map Subscribe to event feeds Relative date queries (for example, query events that finished in the last 24 hours, or events starting in the coming week). Assign events to categories and tags, and view events by category or tag. Colour-coded event categories. Custom permissions allow to specifiy which roles have the ability to create, edit and delete events or manage venues. Venue pages, to view events by venue. Export/import events to and from ICAL files. Delete individual occurrences of events. Public events feed: allow visitors to subscribe to your events, or a particular venue / category. Supports ‘pretty permalinks’ for event pages, event archives, event category and venue pages. (Optionally) automatically delete expired events. For the developer Adds an event custom post type that fits naturally into WordPress and allows for all the functionality of ‘posts’. Respects the template hierarchy. Default templates can be over-ridden by including the appropriately named template files in your theme folder. Plug-in actions and filters are provided to modify the behaviour of the plug-in (hook reference Extensive function API & documentation Javascript actions and filters to modify interaction with the calendars and maps Provide custom templates for shortcodes, widgets and ICAL export Custom metaboxes and meta data support for venues (see tutorial). Minified javascript files are used, with the originals provided for ease of developing Booking add-on available Localisation A big thank you to those who have provided translations for Event Organiser. If you wish to help out with translating the plug-in, you can do so here. Arabic – Layla, Mohamed Nazir Bulgarian – Parvan Voynov Catalan – jordioniric, marc.antje Chinese – sdsunqian Czech – Jan Kupsa Croatian – Branimir Danish – Intox Studio, Malthe, Morten Lyng Dutch – Ingrid Ekkers, Roel English (Canada) – GhostToast Estonian – Kristjan Roosipuu Finnish – Kari Tolonen, Juhani Marttila French – Remy Perona, Arnaud German – Martin Grether & Henning Matthaei Greek – Vasilis, Panagiotis Hebrew (Israel) – heli Hungarian – Csaba Erdei Icelandic – HrHagedorn Indonesian – Daniel Tampubolon Italian – Emilio Frusciante, Pio Muto, Daniele Piccoli Japanese – ogawa, tkj, takeshi terai, haya. Latvian – Kristaps Lithuaniun – Stephan Siegi Macedonian – Aleksandar Norwegian – Erlend Birkedal Norweign (Bokmål) – DagC Persian (Iran, Islamic Republic of) – Polish – Bartosz Arendt Portuguese (Brazil) – Rafael Wahasugui, rafaelkvidal Portuguese (Portugal) – Emanuel Teixeira Romanian – raduanastasedev Russian – Sergei Slovak – ViRPo Slovenian – Matej Spanish (Spain)- Joseba Sanchez, jagarre, jelena kovacevic, courtesy of WebHostingHub Spanish (Peru) – Pedro Valverde Swedish – Sofia BrÃ¥vander, Urban Norlander Thai – Nibhon, Wuttichai Songprapai Turkish – Gökhan DAMGACI Ukranian – Максим Кобєлєв

Events Maker is a fully featured event management plugin from dFactory including recurring events, locations management, full calendar, iCal feed/files support and google maps integration. Powerful, flexible events management Events Maker allows you to easily create and manage your events. But at the same time is powerful and very flexible in customization. Responsive Events Calendar Users can browse for your events in a beautiful, responsive events calendar and display all events for the selected month, week od day. Automatic iCal support Events Maker automatically generates an iCal feed/files for all your events, categories, tags, locations, organizers and single events which can be used to import event information into calendar applications such as Google Calendar, iCalendar, Outlook, ThunderBird, etc. Locations with Google Maps Support for event locations and Google Maps has never been easier. Thanks to the geolocation you won’t need to mess around with latitude and longitude. WPML & Polylang compatibility Events Maker allows you to create and manage events, categories, locations and organizers in different languages using WPML or Polylang. So now, if you build a multilingual website, you won’t have to worry about the multilingual capability anymore. Recommended Community Themes: Browse beautiful WordPress themes compatible with Events Maker. Brentwood – Golf Course Theme Wise Mountain – Vineyard and Winery Theme The Food Truck – Restaurant Theme Rock Harbor – Church WordPress Theme Growler – Brewery WordPress Theme Dining Restaurant – WordPress Theme For Chefs Your favorite theme’s not listed here? Ask the theme developer to make it work with Events Maker – it’s quite simple. Features include: Easy Events management Built using WordPress custom post types, custom taxonomies and custom post fields Ajax Events Calendar Event Search with customizable attributes Display options for single events Multiple Tickets and Pricing Locations list page Organizers list page Full Calendar page Automatic iCal feed/files support Advanced recurring events, including daily, monthly, yearly and custom occurrences Compatibility with Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen and Twenty Fifteen themes Featured events Event Categories and Tags Event Ogranizers Organizers contact details and image Event Locations Breadcrumb navigation Google maps Duplicating events Builtin event gallery RSS feed support Customizeable template files Events sorting HTML description for event taxonomies Google Rich Snippets ready 7 Events widgets Multiple custom functions Advanced hooks for developers Custom permissions for Events Multisite support Compatible with WPML & Polylang Compatible with SEO plugins Customizable permalink structure .pot file for translations included Future plans: Front-end events submissions Event registration system