Blocks for Eventbrite vs Simple Sponsorships

The simplest way to showcase Eventbrite events on your WordPress site. This plugin helps bridge the gap between WordPress and Eventbrite, while retaining the great user experience that Eventbrite provides. Your events live on Eventbrite where they belong — this plugin simply displays them with a beautiful, modern design. Why Choose Blocks for Eventbrite? 🪶 Truly Lightweight Unlike traditional event plugins, we don’t create WordPress posts, custom tables, or complex database structures. Your events are fetched directly from Eventbrite and intelligently cached for blazing-fast performance. 🛒 Seamless Checkout Experience Using Eventbrite’s embedded checkout, visitors can register and pay without ever leaving your website (SSL required). No redirects, no friction — just conversions. 🎨 Beautiful Out of the Box Modern card-based design with clean typography, subtle shadows, and smooth hover effects. Each event displays the image, date, venue, price, and a quick-details tooltip — all styled to look great on any theme. ⚡ Smart Caching Events are cached using WordPress transients, refreshing every minute. Your site stays fast while always showing up-to-date event information. Features Native Gutenberg Block — Just add the block and paste your API key Embedded Checkout — Let visitors register without leaving your site Event Status Filter — Display live, draft, or all events Flexible Sorting — Order by start date or event name (ascending/descending) Event Name Filter — Show only events matching specific keywords Limit Events Displayed — Control exactly how many events appear Custom Button Styling — Match your brand with custom colors and text Date & Time Formatting — Use WordPress formatting or customize your own Quick Details Tooltip — Visitors can preview event summaries instantly Venue Information — Automatically displays location details when available Live Editor Preview — See exactly how your events will look while editing Translation Ready — Fully internationalized for global sites No Database Bloat — Zero custom posts, zero custom tables Perfect For Event organizers who manage events on Eventbrite Businesses that host regular workshops, classes, or meetups Nonprofits promoting fundraisers and community events Anyone who wants events on WordPress without the maintenance headache

Simple Sponsorships is a complete Sponsorships manager plugin where you can: accept sponsor requests receive payments from approved sponsorships manage and display Sponsors create different sponsorship packages If you want to handle payments differently, you can disable them and instruct sponsors with detailed information on how you will accept payments. This plugin can help you manage your sponsors, sponsor requests and all other related sponsor data. How this plugin works? A potential sponsor comes to your page. It goes to the Sponsor Page (it will create a /sponsor page), Fills the Sponsor Form and you get an email, A Sponsorship is created which you can then approve or reject, Once the Sponsorship is approved, the Sponsor is created from the provided information, If you want to accept payments through your site, you can use PayPal and the Sponsor will use it to pay for Sponsorship, Once paid, the Sponsorship will become active and the Sponsor can be added to a content Simple Sponsorships, to handle Sponsors, is composed of different types of data: Sponsors – can have more than 1 sponsorship. Edited and managed as regular posts, pages and similar, Sponsorships – connected to a sponsor and a package. Holds payment data, Packages – packages are like products in a shop. A sponsor can choose a package to purchase and then the Sponsorship is created. Use Cases Podcast Site You have a podcast site where you accept Sponsors for your episodes. Each month has 2 episodes. 1 year (season) has 24 episodes in total. 1 Episode sponsorship is $100. You don’t accept sponsorships for one episode but you actually have different packages: Half Season: You create a package with a quantity of 12 and the amount of $1200. Full Season: You create a package with a quantity of 24 and the amount of $2400. Early-Bird Full Season: You create a package with a quantity of 24 and with a lower amount of $1800. Once a sponsor pays for the Half Season, that sponsor will get an additional available quantity of 12. You can now assign this sponsor to 12 new episodes. Event/WordCamp Site You have a WordCamp site where you accept Sponsors for the WordCamp, a single event. There are different ways people can sponsor your event and what they get for it. So here are some of the sponsorship packages you can create Platinum: enter and explain this package. This sponsorship is a huge one and it will give the most exposure. The quantity is 1 and the amount is $5000. Gold: Gold sponsor has less exposure than platinum but still, they even get a place in the WordCamp venue where they can show what they do. Quantity is 1 and the amount is $2000. Freelancer: This sponsorship package is suited for people who want to get a little more exposure in the Thank you note of the WordCamp. The Quantity is 1 and the amount is $150. Each sponsor will get an additional available quantity of 1, but you can still show them anywhere with the shortcodes. Since this sponsorships are global on the whole event, you don’t have to assign them to a content. Planned Features Some of the planned features to be implemented soon: Package availability – option to disable a package from being purchased anymore. Still active, but can’t be purchased anymore. Ability to add more packages to a single sponsorship (Sponsor can choose more than 1 package option) Add more gateways Setup Wizard – for a better 1st time setup