Event Koi Lite – Events Calendar, Event Management, RSVP, and Tickets vs My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager

EventKoi Lite is a modern WordPress events calendar plugin built for site owners who want an unbloated and intuitive event management plugin. Create and manage in-person and virtual events, display a beautiful events calendar or event list, sell tickets, event bookings, manage RSVPs and attendees, all from a clean, intuitive admin. ✓ Events calendar & event list — Display events in a calendar, list, or grid view using blocks, shortcodes, Elementor, or Beaver Builder ✓ Event registration & RSVP — Let attendees register for events, manage capacity, and check in with check-in codes ✓ Sell event tickets with WooCommerce — Create multiple ticket types per event, set capacity and pricing, and sell tickets using any WooCommerce payment gateway including Stripe and PayPal ✓ Attendee management — Export your attendee list and manage check-ins from your WordPress admin ✓ In-person and virtual events — Supports Google Maps for venues and auto-detects visitor timezone for virtual and international events ✓ Google Calendar, iCal & Outlook sync — Let attendees add events to their own calendar with one click ✓ Accessible & responsive — Keyboard navigation, ARIA labels, and a fully mobile-friendly events calendar ✓ Event SEO — Automatic JSON-LD structured data markup so your events appear in Google search results and rich snippets ✓ Blocks, shortcodes & page builders — Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, and Beaver Builder out of the box ✓ Secure, well-built code that follows WordPress coding standards ✓ Active development, responsive support, and thorough documentation Need recurring events, unlimited calendars, and custom fields? Upgrade to EventKoi Pro → Event management Add multiple event days, each with its own start and end time Create multiple venue events. Combine in-person and virtual event locations Create in-person events with Google Maps venue embedding Create virtual events with automatic visitor timezone detection Use your WordPress site’s date, time, and timezone settings Customize event page templates in the block editor Localization-ready Events Calendar & Event Listing Embed an events calendar using a block, shortcode, Elementor widget, or Beaver Builder module Display an event listing as a list or grid view Filter events by date range or calendar Accessible calendar views with full keyboard navigation and ARIA labels Fully responsive and mobile-friendly for all screen sizes Set the calendar’s starting day of the week Choose 12 or 24-hour time display Organize all your events under your events calendar. Upgrade to Pro for multiple calendars to segment events by category, location, or type Event Registration & RSVP Management Set event capacity and display remaining spots to encourage signups Let attendees submit and update their event registration (RSVP) Send automated confirmation emails with check-in codes Manage attendee registration and check-ins from WordPress admin Export your full attendee list Sell Event Tickets & Event Booking with WooCommerce Use any WooCommerce payment gateway (Stripe, PayPal, and more) to sell tickets directly from your WordPress site Create multiple ticket types per event (e.g. General Admission, VIP, Early Bird) Set individual pricing, capacity, and availability for each ticket type Offer free tickets or paid tickets Set ticket sale windows — open and close ticket sales on specific dates Set a maximum number of tickets per order Show or hide remaining ticket quantities to create urgency Add terms and conditions per ticket type Require buyers to have a WordPress account, or auto-create one at checkout Automated ticket confirmation email with check-in code sent on purchase Automated refund confirmation emails Manage all ticket orders and attendees from your WordPress admin Track tickets sold and total earnings with built-in reporting Export your full attendee list Calendar Sync & Sharing Let visitors add events to Google Calendar, iCalendar, Outlook 365, or Outlook Live Auto-detect visitor timezone for virtual and international events Social sharing built in Event SEO & Structured Data EventKoi Lite automatically outputs JSON-LD structured data for every event, helping your events appear in Google Search rich results and event snippets. Structured data is built in, no configuration needed. Page Builder Integrations Elementor: Embed an events calendar or event data using native Elementor widgets Beaver Builder: Embed an events calendar or event data using native Beaver Builder modules Block editor and shortcode support Shortcode builder: Build shortcodes with multiple queries to display a calendar or list of events Block Editor: Add an events calendar, event query loop block or event data block directly in the WordPress editor Import events from The Events Calendar Switching from The Events Calendar? Import your events in minutes with our built-in migration tool Event titles, descriptions, dates, times, and timezones All-day and multi-day event settings Venue and location data Organizer information Event categories Recurrence rules (converted to EventKoi’s recurring event format) Google Maps embed settings Featured images Duplicate events detector. Re-running the importer won’t create duplicates. Get advanced features with EventKoi Pro Recurring events Create advanced rules for events that repeat daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, Edit individual event instances (custom name, location, description, and more) Automatically create a dedicated event series page Custom fields Add custom fields and field groups to any event Import custom fields from The Events Calendar Multiple event calendars Lite includes one calendar. Pro unlocks unlimited calendars so you can segment events by type, department, location, or audience Advanced Elementor and Beaver Builder integrations Build custom templates and use Loop features to build queryable event lists. Priority support 30-day money-back guarantee Get EventKoi Pro → Helpful links EventKoi documentation EventKoi blog Support Forum (please check existing threads before starting a new one) Contact us (for non-support related questions) External services This plugin can connect to the Google Maps JavaScript API in order to display interactive maps inside event and calendar views. It sends your configured Google Maps API key (if provided) along with requests made by the visitor’s browser when viewing a page that contains an embedded map. No personal data is sent by the plugin itself, but Google may collect usage data in accordance with their policies. This connection only happens if maps are enabled in the plugin settings and a page with an event location map is viewed. This service is provided by Google LLC: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy.

My Calendar offers easy-to-use WordPress event management with rich options for custom displays. Display individual event calendars in WordPress Multisite, offer multiple views of calendars limited by event categories, locations or author, or show simple text-based lists of your upcoming events. Rich Event Calendar Features You’ll find enormous design flexibility for your custom calendar. With recurring event support, design customization tools, custom templating, and category and venue support out of the box, My Calendar gives you a great feature set to get your calendar set up. Built with Accessibility in Mind My Calendar is an events calendar focused on holistic accessibility: providing a positive experience for site visitors and administrators who use assistive technology. It includes built-in settings where you can describe the ADA compliance features of your events and venues. Accessibility is a critical part of your website, so your audience can get equal access and experience to the events you list. Learn about accessible events or visit the My Calendar demo Accessibility-first Software While My Calendar has a strong focus on backwards compatibility, it is officially built with an accessibility first mindset. That means that if a choice has to be made between improving accessibility and breaking backwards compatibility, the more accessible choice will always come first. Premium Event Management Looking for more? Buy My Calendar Pro, the premium extension for My Calendar. My Calendar Pro adds tons of great additional features: Support for user-submitted events, Custom field creation and management, integration between posting and event creation, Import events from outside sources, and support for sharing events between multiple sites. Sell Event Tickets Do you sell tickets for your events? Use My Tickets and sell tickets for My Calendar events. Set prices, ticket availability, and sell multiple events at the same time using My Tickets. Features: Calendar grid, card, and list views of events Month, multi-month, week, or daily view. Mini-calendar for compact displays (as widget or shortcode) Widgets: today’s events, upcoming events, mini calendar, event search Customize templates for event output Limit views by categories, location, author, or host Extensive support for recurring events. Edit or add single dates in recurring events Rich permissions handling to restrict access to parts of My Calendar Email notifications when events are scheduled or drafted Post to X, Bluesky, or Mastodon when events are created (using XPoster) Event location management Fetch events from a remote database. (Sharing events in a network of sites.) Multisite-friendly Integrated help page Shortcode Generator to create customized views of My Calendar SEO with JSON-LD structured data for events and venues. Export or subscribe via iCal or Google Calendar. Completely responsive events views Extensive public documentation. Hundreds of actions and filters for custom development Accessibility My Calendar is designed with accessibility in mind. All interfaces – both front and back end – are tested with various assistive technology. The plugin includes features for showing the accessibility services available for events and at physical venues, as well as providing access to your event information for users with disabilities. What’s in My Calendar Pro? Let your site visitors submit events to your site (pay to post or free!). Let logged-in users edit their events from the front-end. Custom field creator Create events when you publish a blog post Publish a blog post when you create an event Advanced search features Import events from .ics or .csv formats via file or URL. REST API support for sharing events between multiple sites. Translations Visit WordPress Translations to check progress or contribute to your language. Translating my plugins is always appreciated. Visit WordPress translations to help get your language to 100%!