Registrations for the Events Calendar – Event Registration Plugin vs VS Event List

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.

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!