Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs Songkick Concerts and Festivals

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

This plugin lets you display upcoming or past events for a Songkick user, artist, venue, or metro area on your WordPress blog. Events can be displayed by adding the Songkick widget to your template, or by adding the shortcode [songkick_concerts_and_festivals] anywhere in your blog. Features Upcoming events for an artist Past events for an artist Upcoming events for a venue Upcoming events for a user Past events for a user Upcoming events for a metro area. A metro area is a city or a collection of cities that Songkick uses to notify users of concerts near them. Widget or shortcode format Show events for multiple artists, users, venues, or metro areas. Paginated list of events HTML markup with support for events as defined by Schema.org Requirements This plugin uses a non-commercial Songkick API key. If you have a commercial website, you’ll need your own Songkick API key. Please read through Songkick’s API terms of use. Apply for a key here: Songkick API docs This plugin requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher Settings Go to the Settings page to configure default options for the plugin. You can also specify your settings under Plugins/Widget or via shortcode options. For a user, simply put your username in the admin interface. For an artist, you should use the artist’s Songkick id, as shown in the url for your artist page. For example, the url “http://www.songkick.com/artists/123-your-name” has the id “123”. The same goes for metro areas: “http://www.songkick.com/metro_areas/123-city-name” has the id “123”. And venues: “http://www.songkick.com/venues/123-venue-name” has the id “123”. Widget Go to the admin Widgets page and simply drag the widget into a sidebar and configure it. Shortcode Add the shortcode [songkick_concerts_and_festivals] in the content of any blog post. When using a shortcode, you can set which artist, venue, metro area, or user you want to display events for, allowing you to show events for different entities: Users: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_username songkick_id_type=user] Artists: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_artist_id songkick_id_type=artist] Venues: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_venue_id songkick_id_type=venue] Metro areas: [songkick_concerts_and_festivals songkick_id=your_metro_area_id songkick_id_type=metro_area] Override shortcode settings: gigography=true|false number_of_events=integer show_pagination=true|false no_calendar_style=true|false — removes the calendar style from the event dates order=asc|desc – sort order for artist or user events PHP code You can call the shortcode method directly in your PHP code: Blogs using this plugin Know any blogs using this plugin? Let me know! Contribute This is an open source project that I maintain during my spare time. I welcome contributions! The code lives on Github. To send your contribution, fork my project, make your lovely changes, and send me a pull request. Thanks 🙂