Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs SDAweb Calendar Sync for Google Calendar

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

SDAweb Calendar Sync turns any Google Calendar into a polished, on-brand events display on your WordPress site — without duplicate data entry. Keep scheduling in Google Calendar the way you already do; the plugin pulls those events in and keeps your site in sync automatically. It’s for anyone who already runs their events in Google Calendar and wants them to look like a native part of their site instead of an embedded iframe — businesses, teams, venues, clubs, communities, and organisations of every kind. Insert a calendar with a Gutenberg block, a shortcode, or a classic widget. All three share one render pipeline, so the output is identical however you add it. Six ways to show your calendar List / Agenda — chronological, optionally grouped by day, week, or month Month grid — classic 7×6 calendar with multi-day event ribbons spanning across cells, today highlight (cell or whole-column style), optional ISO 8601 week-number column, and per-feed pastel chips Card grid — upcoming events as styled cards, responsive Week — 7 day columns, today highlighted Day — single-day agenda Mini-month — compact dot-density grid for sidebars and widgets, with a tap-to-expand event panel showing today + next upcoming events and a “Load more” button Switch between views with one setting, or expose a visitor-facing view-toggle pill so visitors can switch themselves. Under the hood every view shares the same data layer, the same CSS-variable system, and the same accessibility baseline. Smart UX out of the box Hover popover on event chips (Month, Week, Mini) — a floating card with date, time, location, calendar, recurrence summary, and a click-through link, so visitors get the full event detail without leaving the page. Desktop hover + keyboard focus only; touch users keep direct click-through. Mobile auto-degrade Month → Mini — below ~600px the full grid is replaced by the compact Mini-month view, so phone visitors get a clean, tappable calendar with no extra work from you. One wrapper, two layouts, no JS swap. ICS subscribe dropdown — one tap to add your events to a visitor’s own calendar: Google Calendar (web), Apple Calendar / Outlook (webcal), Android Google Calendar app (intent), and Copy-link with toast confirmation. Mobile becomes a bottom sheet. Live search + jump-to-date picker — optional chrome controls so visitors can filter or navigate quickly. Multi-day event ribbons — week-spanning bars with arrow indicators when an event continues beyond the visible row. Recurring event indicator — small ↻ icon with a plain-language cadence summary in the tooltip (“Repeats weekly until 31 December 2026”). Per-display locale override — render a calendar in a specific language (e.g. nb_NO) even when the site language differs, so you can run a localized calendar on a site that’s in another language. Two authentication paths API key — for calendars marked “Make available to public” in Google Calendar. One field, paste, done. Service Account JSON — for private calendars without per-user OAuth. Upload the JSON, share the calendar with the service-account email, you’re set. Credentials are encrypted at rest using a key derived from your site’s authentication salt. They are never echoed back into the admin UI — only the masked value and (for service accounts) the public service-account email are shown. Theme-aware out of the box The plugin reads your active theme’s theme.json color palette and uses your primary, accent, foreground, and background colors automatically. Per-display overrides let you set custom primary, accent, today-highlight, and link colors and force light/dark mode without touching code. Every design token is exposed as a CSS custom property so a developer can fully restyle the calendar from their theme stylesheet. Five built-in theme presets One-click coordinated colour bundles: Default (clean blue), Warm earth (cream + deep red), High contrast (solid black on white for AAA-stricter sites), Forest (deep green), Sunset (warm coral + amber). Accessibility built in WCAG 2.2 AA baseline with several AAA touches: Live contrast warnings on every colour picker — the admin UI shows the WCAG ratio against both light and dark surfaces with pass/fail markers as you choose colours Automatic high-contrast overlay via prefers-contrast: more Focus-visible halo: a 4px white ring behind the primary outline so focus stays visible against any chip background prefers-reduced-motion honored everywhere ARIA roles and labels on the month grid, navigation, popovers, and view-toggle Semantic HTML throughout RTL-aware via CSS logical properties Tabular numerals for day numbers and time labels so single- and double-digit values don’t drift Built for the WordPress.org standard Block editor first-class — server-side rendered, ServerSideRender preview, all the standard InspectorControls Shortcode and classic widget on the same render pipeline No bundled core libraries (no jQuery on front-end, no Guzzle, no Carbon, no Monolog) No third-party authentication relay — your credentials only ever talk directly to googleapis.com Translation ready via translate.wordpress.org once the plugin is published and indexed (no bundled .po/.mo — WordPress auto-loads locale files into wp-content/languages/plugins/ per the WP Plugin Handbook), plurals via _n(), JS strings via wp_localize_script Free and GPLv2 For developers Extension hooks are documented in docs/hooks.md inside the plugin folder. The first-release set includes filters for event data, event URLs, query args, cache TTL, render output, palette resolution, plus actions for refresh and uninstall lifecycle. Third-Party Services This plugin connects to the Google Calendar API to retrieve events from calendars you configure. Service: Google Calendar API v3 Website: https://developers.google.com/calendar Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Data sent: the calendar ID(s) you configure, plus either your API key or a JSON Web Token signed with your service account credentials. Event data is returned to your server and cached locally as WordPress transients. No event data is sent to any third party. The ICS subscribe feature, when enabled, serves a self-hosted iCalendar (.ics) feed from your own site — built from the same calendar data already fetched via the Google Calendar API above — so subscribers can add it in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, or any other app that supports calendar subscriptions. No data is sent to any third party beyond the Google Calendar API connection already disclosed.