Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs Meow Gallery

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

Meow Gallery is the lightweight, polished gallery solution for WordPress. Built from scratch for simplicity, appearance, and speed. Features a Gallery Block, shortcode support, or works as an override for the standard WordPress gallery. It’s responsive, retina-friendly, with modern layouts, and tightly optimized. Stop fighting bloated gallery plugins that turn your WordPress into a slower experience! 😘 Meow Gallery focuses on what actually matters: Beautiful Layouts and Performance. Check out our official site and see the layouts in action to get started. Core Features 🎨 Beautiful Layouts Choose from Tiles, Masonry, Justified (like Flickr), Square (like Instagram), Cascade, and Horizontal. Pro version adds Carousel and Map layouts. 🚀 Performance First Built from scratch with modern code. No legacy bloat, no unnecessary features. Just clean, fast galleries. 🔌 WordPress Native Works naturally with WordPress and Gutenberg without hacking it. Use the Gallery Block, shortcode, or override the standard WordPress gallery. Switch back anytime—no lock-in. 📱 Responsive & Retina All layouts are fully responsive and retina-ready for crisp images on any device. Compatibility Since Meow Gallery works with WordPress naturally, it’s compatible with most plugins and themes: Lightbox: Use any lightbox you prefer. We recommend Meow Lightbox for the best experience. Lightroom: Fully compatible with Photo Engine for media organization and Lightroom sync. External Links: Use Gallery Custom Links to add custom URLs to your images. Audio: Add audio to images with Audio Story Images. SEO-friendly with automatic sitemap integration (works with Yoast SEO and others). Pro Features Infinite/Lazy Loading: Faster page loading and smoother experience Carousel Layout: Dynamic slider/carousel that can also work as a hero Map Layout: GPS-based photo display for travel galleries Animations: Bring your galleries to life with smooth animations You can find more information on Meow Apps: Meow Gallery.