Event Organiser vs Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!

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 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