Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! vs VS Event List

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

About With this lightweight plugin you can create an event list. Main features of the plugin: Free and lightweight Support for Block Editor and Classic Editor Display your event list with block, shortcode or widget Display upcoming and past events Share events via RSS or iCal feed Organise events with categories Customize your event list via the settings page or with attributes Add extra content to events with the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin Documentation at WP plugin page Active support from developer at WP forum How to use After installation go to menu item “Events” and create some events. Go to the editor and add the VS Event List block or the shortcode [vsel] to a page. This will display your event list. Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Event List widget. When using the shortcode add the list attribute to display the events you want. [vsel list="upcoming"] to display upcoming events (today included) [vsel list="future"] to display future events (today not included) [vsel list="current"] to display current events [vsel list="past"] to display past events (before today) [vsel list="all"] to display all events Without this attribute the default event list is displayed (upcoming events). Customize your event list via the settings page or with attributes. Settings page The settings page is located at Settings > VS Event List. Attributes Settings can be overridden by adding attributes to the block, shortcode, or widget. This can be useful when having multiple event lists on your website. Add custom CSS class to event list: class="your-class-name" Change the number of events per page: posts_per_page="5" Display all events (without pagination): posts_per_page="-1" Skip one or multiple events: offset="1" Change date format: date_format="j F Y" Display events of a specific year: year="2026" Display events of a specific month: year="2026" month="08" Display events from a certain category: event_cat="your-category-slug" Display events from multiple categories: event_cat="first-category-slug, second-category-slug" Reverse the order of events in the upcoming, future and current events list: order="DESC" Reverse the order of events in the past and all events list: order="ASC" Change the “no events are found” text: no_events_text="your text" Disable event title link: title_link="false" Disable featured image link: featured_image_link="false" Disable featured image caption: featured_image_caption="false" Disable featured image: featured_image="false" Disable read more link: read_more="false" Disable pagination: pagination="false" Display all event info: event_info="all" Display a summary: event_info="summary" Example: [vsel posts_per_page="5" event_cat="your-category-slug" event_info="summary"] When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets. Example: posts_per_page="5" event_cat="your-category-slug" event_info="summary" Featured image Featured images will be used as the primary image for every event. By default the “post thumbnail” is used as the source for the featured image. The size of the post thumbnail may vary by theme. WordPress creates duplicate images in different sizes upon upload. These sizes can be set via Settings > Media. If the post thumbnail doesn’t look as expected (low resolution or poor cropping), you can choose a different size via the settings page. You can also change the width of the featured image. The featured image on the single event page is handled by your theme. Default support The plugin creates a custom post type “event”. This automatically supports the single event page, the event category page, the (event) post type archive page and the search results page. It hooks into the theme template file that is being used by these pages. Support for the single event page is needed. Support for the other pages is added to make the plugin compatible with page builder plugins. Events on default WP pages are not ordered by event date. Plugin activates the post attributes box in the editor. In the post attributes box you can set a custom order for events that have the same date. Custom order can be handy when automatic ordering by time is disabled. Plugin supports the menu page. Support is added to make the plugin compatible with page builder plugins. Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) You can add extra content to the event details or the event info by using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. The most commonly used fields are supported. Create a field group for the post type “event” and add fields to this group. This new field group will then be added to the editor. With these fields you can add the extra content to each event. Via the settings page you can decide where to display the extra content. RSS and iCal feed You can share your upcoming events via an RSS feed. The default RSS widget will display events from future to upcoming. To reverse this order I recommend using an RSS feed plugin capable of changing the RSS feed order. You can share your upcoming and past events with an external calendar via an iCal feed. You can activate both feeds on the settings page. Have a question? Please take a look at the FAQ section. Translation Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs. More translations are very welcome! The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference. Credits Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!