Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs Herodotus – On This Day

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 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 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

Herodotus is a specialized tool for creating recurring historical events based on Day and Month, making it perfect for “This Day in History”, birthdays, anniversaries, or any annual recurring timeline. Unlike the default WordPress behavior where posts are tied to a specific publication year, Herodotus introduces its own herodotus_post Custom Post Type. You simply pick a day and a month from the custom date picker in the block editor, and your post will automatically appear on that exact day every single year. Key Features: Dedicated Custom Post Type — keeps your regular blog posts completely separate from historical events. Custom Taxonomy — group historical events into categories like “Science”, “Politics”, “Birthdays”, etc. Annual Recursion — just set “May 15” and the post appears every May 15, forever. Two Layouts — standard list layout for pages, compact layout ideal for sidebars and widgets. Shortcode & Gutenberg Block — use [herodotus] or the included block to display events anywhere. Year Support — set the year of the event for display purposes. Year Badge — the historical year is displayed as a badge on each event card, so visitors immediately see when the event occurred. Category Filtering — display posts from a specific category using [herodotus category="history"]. Category Labels — category is displayed on each event card and on the single event page. Hide Images — show posts as text-only using [herodotus show_image="false"]. Open Graph & Twitter Card — automatic meta tags for beautiful social media sharing previews. Schema.org Markup — JSON-LD structured data (Article, Event, CollectionPage) for better SEO and Google rich results. Automatically disabled if Yoast SEO, RankMath, AIOSEO or The SEO Framework is active. Timezone Aware — strictly respects your WordPress timezone settings. WPML & Polylang Ready — includes wpml-config.xml for full multilingual compatibility. Translation Ready — includes translations for Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Turkish. Caching — built-in transient caching for fast frontend performance. Sortable Admin Columns — the posts list in the admin shows “Herodotus Date” and “Year” columns, both clickable to sort your events by date or year. Available Shortcode Attributes: [herodotus] — show today’s posts using global settings. [herodotus layout="compact"] — compact view, ideal for sidebars. [herodotus limit="5"] — limit to first 5 posts. [herodotus category="history"] — show posts from a specific category (use slug). [herodotus excerpt_words="15"] — set custom excerpt length. [herodotus show_image="false"] — hide images, show only title, excerpt and Read more. [herodotus order="DESC"] — reverse sort order for this instance (overrides the global setting).