Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs OpenAgenda

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

Display calendars from https://openagenda.com on your site. Basic usage This WordPress plugin allows you to embed any calendar hosted on https://openagenda.com on your WordPress site. Upon activation, the plugin creates a new post type named Calendars. Just create a new calendar, provide the UID of the calendar you wish to display in the calendar settings box, and that’s it ! You can leave the content area for this calendar empty, as it will be populated automatically with your events ! Your events are automatically inserted after your content. If you wish to control where your events will be listed, just use the shortcode [openagenda] in your content. Settings General settings can be found under the Calendar > Settings entry in the admin menu. All data related to your API key or calendars can be found on https://openagenda.com. The settings are divided into two tabs: General and Integrations. General settings The General settings page provides the following settings : OpenAgenda API key : Your user API key. Providing your account API key is required for the plugin to work properly. It can be found in your account on https://openagenda.com Allow for embedded content : If your events contain embedded content, tick this box to allow the corresponding HTML tags. Load default stylesheets : The plugin provides very basic styling and depends heavily on your theme’s styles. Disable this to rely 100% on your theme styles. Legacy templates : Templates have been updated in 3.0.0. Check this option to continue using legacy templates. Cache duration : For performance reasons, basic requests to OpenAgenda are temporarily kept in cache. This settings controls the time to keep them cached, in seconds. Default event image : Choose an image to use in case events do not have one. Delete all calendar content on uninstall ? : controls whether you want to delete all your calendars on uninstall. Delete all options on uninstall ? : controls whether you want to delete all your calendar settings on uninstall. Allow OpenAgenda to collect usage stats ? : controls whether you want to send CMS used and site URL to OpenAgenda, for statistic purposes. Integrations settings The Integrations tab allows you to fine tune settings for various third party services the plugin uses. OpenStreetmap integration settings : Default map tiles link : This is the map tile used for the various maps displayed by the plugin. Default map tiles attribution link : this is the default attribution link placed on OpenStreetMaps. CloudImage integration settings : CloudImage API key : If you wish to use CloudImage to serve your images, enter your API key here. Permalinks settings In the Permalinks settings, you can change the prefix for your calendar pages. You cannot leave this blank as your URLs will conflict with WordPress’ default pages and posts. In the Settings > Reading section, you can set a calendar page as your front page. Note that it will still use the default calendar template provided by the plugin and the default front page template provided by your theme. Customizer settings In the Customizer, a new panel is available to house various display settings. For now only a main color setting is available. If you add Openagenda Filter widgets via the customizer, the preview will not display them immediately. That’s simply because filters are initialized on page load and the customizer preview is not always fully refreshed when a setting is changed. Simply publish your settings and refresh the page, or open your agenda page in another tab. Your filter should work just fine. Filter widget and shortcodes To allow users to easily find relevant events, the plugin also provides a convenient filter widget. Place the widget in your sidebar or other widgetized area, pick a filter and tweak any additional settings in the widgets admin. To integrate filters directly in your content instead of widget areas, the plugin also provide shortcodes. Every shortcode listed here (except for [openagenda]) corresponds to a filter option in the widget. Additionaly, shortcodes and widget filters have the same parameters, and every shortcode attribute corresponds to a widget filter setting. [openagenda] Displays the calendar. You do not need to use this shortcode explicitely, as it is automatically injected in the content of your “calendars” posts. However, if you need to insert static content after your list of events, you can do so by inserting this shortcode, then your static content afterwards. [openagenda_filter_active] Displays the active filters. It takes no parameters. [openagenda_filter_choice] Displays a list of choices, depending on the field chosen. It takes the following parameters : field: the slug of the choice field you want to display (e.g. “cities”, “keywords”, “departments”, “favorites”, etc… ). additional_field: Any custom field you have setup in your OpenAgenda administration. Only works when ‘Additional Field’ is the chosen field. page_size: Number of options to display before the ‘More options’ button. You can find the list of available additional fields in the Forms section of your agenda settings on openagenda.com (ex: https://openagenda.com/[your-agenda]/admin/schema) [openagenda_filter_calendar] Displays a calendar. It takes no parameters. [openagenda_filter_map] Displays an interactive map to locate and search events. It takes the following parameters : map_tiles_link : Map tiles link to use. Defaults to https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png map_auto : Whether to automatically update map on scroll. [openagenda_preview] Displays a preview of any calendar. It takes the following parameters : uid : UID of the calendar you wish to preview. size : Number of events to display. sort : Event sort option. Accepts lastTimingWithFeatured.asc, timingsWithFeatured.asc, lastTiming.asc, timings.asc, updatedAt.asc or updatedAt.desc. filters : Query string representing filters to apply to the request. To ensure it works properly and avoid breaking the shortcode, you should urlencode the query string. You can do so via a simple tool like https://www.urlencoder.org/fr/ links : Accepts oa or an empty string. If set to oa, event links will point to events pages on https//openagenda.com instead of local pages. [openagenda_filter_relative] Allows to filters past or upcoming events. It takes no parameters. [openagenda_filter_search] Displays a search field. It takes the following parameters : placeholder : text field placeholder. Customization Templates for the list of events and individual events can be customized in your child theme. If you’re not already using a child theme, it is recommended to create one. https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/ Just create a folder named openagenda/ in your child theme, then copy and paste the template you wish to override from the plugin’s templates/ folder. Here is a list of templates you can find in the plugin’s templates/ folder : event-loop.php : main wrapper for list view and single event view. Displays exports button and pagination at the top and bottom. list-header.php : contains the total number of events and active filters display. event.php : template used to display the event information on list views. single-event.php : template used to display the event information on single event views. event-location.php : template used to display the location information on single event views. event-additional-fields.php : template used to the list of additional fields on single event views. preview-loop.php : main wrapper for the preview widget and shortcode. The legacy/ folder contains templates used prior to version 3.0.0. If you updated the plugin and notice issues on your frontend, that’s probably because your site used legacy templates. Please try and check the Use legacy templates checkbox in the settings page. The plugin provide convenient template tags for you to display event data in the inc/template-tags.php file. Feel free to define your own in your theme. The plugin also provides many hooks to allow you to customize the html output or other various data. Usage of third party services and copyright information This plugin displays data hosted and provided by https://openagenda.com. By using this plugin, you accept and agree with OpenAgenda’s terms and conditions and privacy policy. Please make sure to read them before using this plugin. Also, using this plugin DOES require an account at https://openagenda.com, and an API key. By default, maps displayed by this plugin use data from https://openstreetmap.org/ and uses the leaflet JS library. By using this plugin, you accept and agree with OpenStreetMap’s terms of use, acceptable use policy and privacy policy The plugin provides optional integration with CloudImage. The integration requires to create an account at https://cloudimage.io and accept and agree their terms of use. Icons used in the UI are Genericons, licenced under the GPL 2.0.