Add to Calendar Button vs RSVPMaker

Make your events get saved. This WordPress plugin lets you create beautiful buttons with calendar links, where people can add events to their calendars. All of this with just a few clicks and highly customizable, using the popular Add to Calendar Button script. Check out the official website for a comprehensive demo and overview. 🛠️ INTEGRATED IN SECONDS You can either use the shortcode [add-to-calendar-button] or the Gutenberg Block. With the PRO version, it only takes the ID to make it fly. In the no-PRO case, you simply place the necessary attributes directly in the shortcode, or at the Gutenberg Block settings. (Mind that you cannot use ‘[‘ and ‘]’ characters, when going for the shortcode option! For content formatting, you can use {‘{‘}xxx{‘}’} instead of [xxx] there.) 🚀 GO PRO Go even further with the PRO version… → Manage all details and styling via a convenient web app. → Use the same button to let people RSVP to your events – fully managed. → Get auto-generated landing pages and shareable links for your events. → Have better guidance for your users, when they add events to their calendars and things don’t go as expected. 👉 Learn more at add-to-calendar-pro.com. ✨ SUPPORTED CALENDARS Google Calendar. Yahoo Calender. Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams. Automatically generated iCal/ics files (for all other calendars, like Apple). 📆 SUPPORTED EVENT TYPES Timed and all-day events. One-time, multi-date, recurring. Most robust time zone and daylight saving management. Dynamic dates (like “today + 3”). 🎨 ADJUST THE LOOK The button comes with multiple themes as well as a dark and light mode. You can easily adjust almost every element by setting the respective simple attributes. In case you want to go all-in, you can also manipulate all kinds of colors and further styling. 🖖 EXPERT ACCESSIBILITY Optimized and adjustable UX (for desktop and mobile). Dynamic dropdown positioning. Taking care of all those edge cases, where some scenarios do not support specific setups (like WebView blocking downloads); utilizing beautiful user guidance workarounds. Auto-generated Schema.org rich (structured) data for better SEO. Full support for mouse, touch, or keyboard input (W3C WAI compliant). Aside from the WordPress editor, the button itself supports 20+ languages, incl. RTL text for Arabic; but also offers the option to customize all labels and text blocks. 📄 ABOUT THE LICENSE Mind that the script to actually generate the Add to Calendar Button uses the Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2)! This usually comes with no restrictions for you, but it forbids you to rework the core script and provide the product (generating an add-to-calendar-button) to others as a managed service. In almost every case, this will not affect you. If you are not sure, because you are building some kind of SaaS, where you are using the plugin, simply contact us.

RSVPMaker is an event and email marketing tool. Use PayPal or Stripe to collect event payments. RSVPMaker handles scheduling, event marketing, and RSVP tracking. You can send email to small lists through your web server or take advantage of the integrations with Postmark and Mailchimp to scale up. When implemented in combination with Postmark for reliable email delivery, RSVPMaker can function as an alternative to Mailchimp or MailPoet that allows you to format messages in the WordPress editor and easily incorporate events (for invitations) and blog posts or excerpts from posts (for email newsletters and promotions). Use RSVPMaker to: – Schedule and promote events of all sorts: conferences, classes, seminars, speaking events, parties and weddings are a few common uses. – Register attendees, prompting them to enter whatever information you need, including the names of guests. – Collect money using PayPal or Stripe. – Create webinars and other online events leveraging free resources like the YouTube Live service. – Create, format, and edit email newsletters within the WordPress block editor, rather than learning another content composer tool. Use dynamic blocks or shortcodes to incorporate dynamic content like lists of recent blog posts or upcoming events. – Power membership-oriented websites with tools for emailing all your members or just those who have or have not registered for a specific event. – Send email using your own web server, an SMTP plugin or the integrations with Mailchimp and Postmark. – Postmark integration has the advantage of supporting both broadcast / mailing list and transactional messages (like RSVP Confirmations). Creating and Managing Events RSVPMaker events are created and edited just like blog posts in the WordPress editor, with the addition of parameters like event date (so the items can be listed chronologically and displayed on a calendar grid). Explore the editing experience with this WordPress Playground demo (created using the author’s Quick Playground plugin) You can use RSVPMaker for event announcements, or turn on the Collect RSVPs function and set additional options for sending email notifications, customizing confirmation and reminder messages, and setting a price or prices if you will be requesting online payments via PayPal. RSVP reports can be viewed on the administrator’s dashboard or downloaded as spreadsheets. If you hold events on a recurring schedule, such as First Monday or Every Friday, you can define a template with the boilerplate details and quickly generate multiple entries that follow that schedule. Individual event posts can still be customized. For example, you might book a series of monthly events for the year and add the names of speakers or agenda details as you go along. The RSVP Mailer tool allows you to use the familiar WordPress editor to format email newsletters and promotional messages, which can include embedded events and other dynamic content from your website. You use the same tools to format transactional messages such as confirmation and reminder messages. Hosting and Support RSVPMaker is a free plugin that doesn’t hold much back in terms of “premium” features. The plugin author is available to consult on customizations, but most generally useful enhancements are folded back into the core plugin code. RSVPMaker also aims to be developer-friendly, allowing you to build event-centric applications on top of it. Hosting and support of pre-configured websites is available through RSVPMaker.com. RSVPMaker.com uses Siteground hosting behind the scenes and Postmark for reliable delivery of email newsletters and transactional messages. Contact the plugin author for details about additional customizations for reselling Postmark services across WordPress multisite networks. RSVPMaker.com RSVPMaker on GitHub Free Extensions: RSVPMaker for Toastmasters provides meeting management for public speaking and leadership development clubs that are part of Toastmasters International. RSVPMaker Volunteer Roles Sign up people to fill specific roles at an event. Translations (some may be out of date): German: Markus König, Björn Wilkens Dutch: Els van der Zalm Spanish: Andrew Kurtis, WebHostingHub Polish: Jarosław Żeliński Norwegian: Thomas Nybø Turkish: Göksel UÇAK Thank you! Translators please reach out to me if you want an updated POT source file Credits RSVPMaker Copyright (C) 2010-2023 David F. Carr This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. See the GNU General Public License at . RSVPMaker also includes code derived from the software development kits for PayPal, Stripe, MailChimp, and Postmark under the license of their creators.