Registrations for the Events Calendar – Event Registration Plugin vs Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events Widget

Whether you’re holding a meetup, class, workshop, tournament, or any other kind of event, you need a reliable way to handle event registration. Our plugin makes collecting and managing event registrations easy and simple. Even nontechnical users can set up the plugin and start collecting event registrations within minutes. Create a simple RSVP registration form or a more advanced event registration form with custom fields. All event registrations are stored in your WordPress database for easy event management. Customize confirmation and notification email templates to keep your attendees and event managers informed throughout the event registration process. Looking for an All-in-One Event Plugin? If you’re starting a new event website and prefer an all-in-one solution, check out Event Genius which is a partner plugin. Event Genius includes built-in event management, calendars, registrations, recurring events, and attendee management in a single plugin. Requires The Events Calendar Registrations for The Events Calendar works alongside The Events Calendar plugin. If The Events Calendar is not installed, you can install it directly from the onboarding setup wizard. Quick to Set Up and Easy to Get Started As soon as you install and activate the plugin, you can begin collecting event registrations on the single event page for all of your events. You can also customize the placement of the form on the single event page or on any other page using a shortcode or the block editor. Uses The plugin can be used for more than event registration. Here are some common ways people are using it: RSVP for meetings Class registration or simple class management Sports club registration Venue booking Webinar sign-ups Private instructor booking Virtual events Pickleball tournament registration User-Friendly Features Reduce incomplete event registrations by keeping the entire process on a single page (AJAX form submission). Keep your event page uncluttered (your registration form is hidden initially and revealed by clicking a customizable “Register” button). Follow up with attendees using customizable confirmation emails. Save registrations in the WordPress database for easy management. Allow attendees to cancel their registration using a secure link sent via email. Highly Customizable Add as many fields as you’d like to your event registration form. Choose where the registration form appears on your event page. Control how the form displays: reveal on click, pop-up modal, or always visible. Display the form anywhere on your site using shortcodes or the Gutenberg block. Customize labels, error messages, instructions, and required fields. Customize both attendee confirmation emails and organizer notification emails. Limit the number of registrations per event. Restrict registration to logged-in users if needed. Display a list of registered attendees. Set a registration deadline (date and time). Powerful Admin Tools Registrations are saved in the WordPress database, where you can manually add, edit, and delete them. Email addresses can be checked for duplicates (this prevents duplicate registrations). Get notifications when new registrations need to be reviewed. View a breakdown of registrations by event, and browse them quickly in an overview. Export your event registrations to a CSV spreadsheet. Search event registrations by name, phone, or email. Integrates with WPML (WordPress Multi-language) for multi-language events. Tools for GDPR Compliance View a breakdown of the tools with screenshots here Search for event registrations filtered by email address. Export all collected data attached to an email address whether connected to a user or not. Delete individual event registrations or permanently delete all data attached to an email address. Require attendees to agree to terms and conditions before registering. Include a link to a terms and conditions page. Benefits Save time with a simple, streamlined registration workflow. Customize the experience to match your needs. Build community by displaying registered attendees (optional). Provide a fast, user-friendly registration experience that increases sign-ups. New in 3.0 Cleaner, more modern interface Improved registration forms Revamped registration management experience 100+ improvements across the plugin Featured Reviews “Perfect plugin, excellent support! Really, two things you can never find combined. The plugin works great. Even the free version has many options, and the support is great. They answer quickly and provide answers to help you achieve what you need. Totally recommend it, and hope they keep creating great plugins!” –delfidream “I needed a plugin to allow signing up for advising sessions at a university; this worked great. Simple, easy to set up.” –adowdle “Awesome Support for Very Useful Plugin I’ve used Registrations for the Events Calendar for several years in a website for a chess camp. RoundupWP always provides timely, above-and-beyond support for any issues that arise.” – jodyfr Pro Version Need more customization and control? Check out Registrations for the Events Calendar Pro. Pro features include: Pro features include: Multiple registration forms per event. Drag and drop event registration form builder. Advanced field types: drop-down, number, checkbox, radio, date, file upload, and paragraph. Accept online payments for event registrations using PayPal (Stripe, iDEAL, and WooCommerce extensions available). Offline payment management. Flexible pricing: add multiple costs to events or vary pricing based on form field responses. Guest registrations (register multiple attendees at once). Waiting lists with automatic promotion when spots open. Multiple confirmation email templates. Registration types with multiple price levels and limits. Scheduled email messages for reminders and follow-ups. Send emails manually from the WordPress dashboard. Connect event series to a single registration (with The Events Calendar Pro). Event check-in and attendance tracking tools. Customizable event registration reports downloadable as CSV. Import event registrations in bulk using CSV. Allow attendees to edit their own registrations. Ideal for membership sites and recurring event registration workflows. Logged-in users can view a list of their registered events. Feedback or Support We would love to hear feedback and support the plugin so please visit the “Support” tab inside the plugin settings page for assistance. Setting up Registrations for the Events Calendar Install the plugin “The Events Calendar” by Modern Tribe from our welcome page (if not already installed). If you haven’t created an event, do so by going to the WordPress dashboard and navigating to Events -> Add New. A registration form will now appear on your created event or any other published event. Add a registration form for a specific event to another page on your site using the shortcode [rtec-registration-form event=743] with the “event” setting being the post ID for that event. Blocks also available. You can configure the form fields, messaging, registrations limits etc by navigating to Registrations -> Settings. You can configure the email options on the “Email” tab of the settings page. See a quick overview of your events and registrations on the “Registrations” page. Add, edit, and remove registrations manually by navigating to the “Registrations” tab and clicking “+ Manage Registrations” for an event. You can also export or view submission details here.

Simple block or widget to display events from a public google calendar, microsoft office outlook calendar or an other iCal file, in the style of your website. This simple block/widget fetches events from a public google calendar (or other calendar in iCal format) and displays them in simple list allowing you to fully adapt to your website by applying all kinds of CSS. Google offers some HTML snippets to embed your public Google Calendar into your website. These are great, but as soon as you want to make a few adjustments to the styling, that goes beyond changing some colors, they’re not enough. Plugin Features Calendar block or widget to display appointments/events of a public Google calendar or other iCal file. Block gives live preview in the editor and is not constrained to widget area. Legacy (old) widget will be displayed in legacy widget block only in widget area. Legacy widget works also with Elementor (with some limitations e.g. preview in backend editor is not always available), with SiteOrigin only the legacy widget with no namespace (activate with checkbox in plugin admin screen) works correct. Small footprint, uses only Google ID of the calendar, or ICS link for Outlook, or Url of iCal file, to get event information via iCal Merge more calendars into one block Manage events in Google Calendar, or other iCalendar source. Fully adaptable to your website with CSS. Output in unordered list with Bootstrap 4 listgroup classes and toggle for details. Works with overridable templates to make the layout more flexible. (You need basic knowledge of PHP to use this function effectively.) Choose date / time format in settings screen that best suits your website. Displays per event DTSTART, DTEND, SUMMARY, LOCATION and DESCRIPTION. DTSTART is required other components are optional. Displays most common repeating events. Frequency Yearly, Monthly, Weekly, Dayly (not Hourly, Minutely and smaller periods) Basic support for filter on Categories Warning: MS Outlook does not share categories via iCal now. Google and iCloud calendar don’t support categories at all. So this will not work with these calendars. In the screenshot below: Left the block with default settings and clicked on one summary. Right with some adjusted settings. Adjusted settings for start with summary: Lay-out: Start with summary. Date format first line: “. l jS \o\f F” Enddate format first line: ” – l jS \o\f F” Time format time summary line: ” G:i” Time format end time summary line: ” – G:i” Time format start time: “” Time format end time: “” Tag for summary: “strong” Documentation Gets calendar events via iCal url or google calendar ID Merge more calendars into one block Displays maximum the selected number of events as listgroup-items Displays only events in a selected period with a length of the setting “Number of days after today with events” from now limited by the time of the day or the beginning of the day at the start and the and of the at the end. Displays events in timezone of WordPress setting, or in Clients timezone with javascript REST call fetched from the clients browser. Displays event start-date and summary; toggle details, description, start-, end-time, location. Displays most common repeating events Frequency Yearly, Monthly, Weekly, Dayly (not parsed Hourly, Minutely …), INTERVAL (default 1), WKST (default MO) End of repeating by COUNT or UNTIL By day month, monthday or setpos (BYDAY, BYMONTH, BYMONTHDAY, BYSETPOS) no other by… (not parsed: BYWEEKNO, BYYEARDAY, BYHOUR, BYMINUTE, RDATE) Exclude events on EXDATE from recurrence set (after evaluating BYSETPOS) Respects Timezone and Day Light Saving time. Build and tested with Iana timezones as used in php, Google, and Apple now also tested with Microsoft timezones and unknown timezones. For unknown timezone-names using the default timezone of WordPress (probably the local timezone). (This widget is a Fork of version 0.7 of that simple google calendar widget by NBoehr https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-calendar-widget/) Copyright and License This project is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later. 2017 – 2023 © Bram Waasdorp.