My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager vs Theater for WordPress

My Calendar offers easy-to-use WordPress event management with rich options for custom displays. Display individual event calendars in WordPress Multisite, offer multiple views of calendars limited by event categories, locations or author, or show simple text-based lists of your upcoming events. Rich Event Calendar Features You’ll find enormous design flexibility for your custom calendar. With recurring event support, design customization tools, custom templating, and category and venue support out of the box, My Calendar gives you a great feature set to get your calendar set up. Built with Accessibility in Mind My Calendar is an events calendar focused on holistic accessibility: providing a positive experience for site visitors and administrators who use assistive technology. It includes built-in settings where you can describe the ADA compliance features of your events and venues. Accessibility is a critical part of your website, so your audience can get equal access and experience to the events you list. Learn about accessible events or visit the My Calendar demo Accessibility-first Software While My Calendar has a strong focus on backwards compatibility, it is officially built with an accessibility first mindset. That means that if a choice has to be made between improving accessibility and breaking backwards compatibility, the more accessible choice will always come first. Premium Event Management Looking for more? Buy My Calendar Pro, the premium extension for My Calendar. My Calendar Pro adds tons of great additional features: Support for user-submitted events, Custom field creation and management, integration between posting and event creation, Import events from outside sources, and support for sharing events between multiple sites. Sell Event Tickets Do you sell tickets for your events? Use My Tickets and sell tickets for My Calendar events. Set prices, ticket availability, and sell multiple events at the same time using My Tickets. Features: Calendar grid, card, and list views of events Month, multi-month, week, or daily view. Mini-calendar for compact displays (as widget or shortcode) Widgets: today’s events, upcoming events, mini calendar, event search Customize templates for event output Limit views by categories, location, author, or host Extensive support for recurring events. Edit or add single dates in recurring events Rich permissions handling to restrict access to parts of My Calendar Email notifications when events are scheduled or drafted Post to X, Bluesky, or Mastodon when events are created (using XPoster) Event location management Fetch events from a remote database. (Sharing events in a network of sites.) Multisite-friendly Integrated help page Shortcode Generator to create customized views of My Calendar SEO with JSON-LD structured data for events and venues. Export or subscribe via iCal or Google Calendar. Completely responsive events views Extensive public documentation. Hundreds of actions and filters for custom development Accessibility My Calendar is designed with accessibility in mind. All interfaces – both front and back end – are tested with various assistive technology. The plugin includes features for showing the accessibility services available for events and at physical venues, as well as providing access to your event information for users with disabilities. What’s in My Calendar Pro? Let your site visitors submit events to your site (pay to post or free!). Let logged-in users edit their events from the front-end. Custom field creator Create events when you publish a blog post Publish a blog post when you create an event Advanced search features Import events from .ics or .csv formats via file or URL. REST API support for sharing events between multiple sites. Translations Visit WordPress Translations to check progress or contribute to your language. Translating my plugins is always appreciated. Visit WordPress translations to help get your language to 100%!

A WordPress plugin to manage and publish events for your theater, live venue, cinema, club or festival. Shortcodes Theater comes with several shortcodes and widgets to show off your events. See the documentation for an overview. Import events from your existing ticketing solution ActiveTickets Seatgeek Entreprise/SRO4 AudienceView Professional Billeto Brown Paper Tickets Ovatic OvationTix Place2Book Reservix RTS Stager TicketingCiné ThunderTix Ticketlab Ticketmaster Ticketmatic Ticketportal Ticketsource Ticketweb Timepad.ru / Главная Veezi Extensions Event Duplicator – This free extension adds a new action to the event editor that instantly duplicates the event. Very helpful if your need to enter a lot of events at once. Events Feed – Automatically show your events in your email newsletter. Works perfectly with Mailchimp and other email marketing solutions. Events Slider – Show your events in a touch enabled and responsive slider. Timetable – Show your event showtimes in a clear table layout. Perfect for cinemas and festivals. Kijkwijzer – Add Kijkwijzer icons to your events. MPAA – Add Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film rating labels to your movies. BBFC – Add British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) icons to your movies. Missing features? Submit a request on the forum. Extending Theater for WordPress Easy! Write your own plugins that extend Theater for WordPress. Check out my example plugin on GitHub. Contributors welcome Submit a pull request on GitHub