Events Manager

Fully featured event registration management including recurring events, locations management, calendar, Google map integration, booking management

4.2

WPMeta Score

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Plugin Popularity 5.0

Author Activity 2.5

👷🏻 This plugin is actively maintained and contributors are really committed to it!
🎖 You've hit a jackpot! This is one of the Top 10 plugins!!
❤️ Mindblowing! More than 227,140 people use plugins from this team.
🏂 22% of 100,000+ users are on the latest version.
📥 Seems like a popular plugin - 598 people download this plugin everyday.
👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 It takes two to tango! We found two people behind this plugin.
📢 Aweful or Awesome?? 138 total updates and 139 in just last 12 months. That's a lot!
🎂 This plugin is going to celebrate it's 13th anniversary after 5 months.

Key Numbers

100,000+ Active Installs
4.3 Avg. Users Rating
305 Total Ratings
2,738,992 Total Downloads
2008-08-06 Added
139 Releases in 12 Months
2019-11-27 Last Update
5.9.7.1 Current Version

Peer Comparison

#	Plugin	WPMeta Score	Users	Rating
1	Events Manager	4.2	100,000+	4.3
2	WP Events Manager WooCommerce	1.2	2,000+	5
3	Countdown for The Events Calendar	1	800+	5
4	Awesome Event Booking	1	100+	5
5	Event Registration Pro Calendar	1	10+	0
6	GamiPress – Events Manager integration	1	70+	0
7	Events Manager Pro – Gateway Selector	0.9	20+	5

Description

Events Manager is a full-featured event registration plugin for WordPress based on the principles of flexibility, reliability and powerful features!

Version 5 now makes events and locations WordPress Custom Post Types, allowing for more possibilities than ever before!

Main Features

Easy event registration (single day with start/end times)
Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration
Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!)
Multiple Tickets
MultiSite Support
BuddyPress Support
- Submit Events
- Group Events
- Personal Events
- Activity Stream
- more on the way
Guest/Member Event submissions
Assign event locations and view events by location
Event categories
Easily create custom event attributes (e.g. dress code)
Google Maps (see our API usage recommendations)
Advanced permissions – restrict user management of events and locations.
Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars
Fine grained control of how every aspect of your events are shown on your site, easily modify templates from the settings pages and template files
iCal Feed (single and all events)
Add to Google Calendar buttons
RSS Feeds
Compatible with SEO plugins
Timezone Support – create events in different timezones
Plenty of template tags and shortcodes for use in your posts and pages
Actively maintained and supported
Lots of documentation and tutorials
And much more!

Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance

We provide the tools to help you be GDPR compliant, including:

export/erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools, including booking, event and location data
consent checkboxes on our booking, event and location forms on the frontend
settings to control what can be exported/erased as well as where/when to place consent requests
sample text for your site privacy policy describing what Events Manager does with personal data

Go Pro

We have a premium “Pro” add-on for Events Manager which not only demonstrates the flexibility of Events Manager, but also adds some important features including but not limited to:

PayPal, Authorize.net and Offline Payments
Custom booking forms
Individual Attendee custom forms
Coupon Codes
Custom booking email per event and gateway
Faster support via private Pro forums

For more information or to go pro, visit our plugin website.

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Reviews

5 Stars 224

4 Stars 22

3 Stars 16

2 Stars 14

1 Star 29

Number 1 in Utility and Value

by aprilschmitt27

I have 37 active plugins on my site and have tested more than 100 (mostly membership and events). Events Manager is number 1 in utility and value, beyond a shadow of a doubt! The display of the Full Calendar is awesome. I’m not a coder and built only one website. The learning curve was slow and I’m definitely not using it to it’s full potential. But I love the varied customizations that I can do and my users rave about using it. Plus an exciting future is ahead, for me to learn how to utilize it even more. We’d be willing to pay some more annually to get more complex support directly from EM. ~April

Works great!

by georgegharrison

Works great. Feature packed. Easy to pickup and just go with it.

Exactly the plugin I was looking for!

by VERYA (verya.ca)

Finally, a complete calendar/events/booking plugin that gives us all the tools to customize it efficiently compared to other popular plugins. From now on, I will always be using this plugin for my clients. Kudos!

Best and most customizable events plugin

by Gerard Blanco (sixaxis)

This is hands down the best events plugin out there. It is true that it might be a little bit complicated for non-technical users, but that's precisely why it's the best, because it lets you edit all its templates, emails and more from scratch, writing your HTML. Add to this the fact that supports WPML and Stripe and you have a winner.

Amazing Customer Service

by dwebber

This plugin does everything we needed it to do. We had a bit of a hiccup activating the pro license on our development site but Marcus from EM Support was quick to respond to our call for help and solved the problem in less than 12 hours. As far as plugins go, this is the most rapid response I've ever had from a developer. I am very impressed.

You will lose your bookings....

by graftedin

....if you even look at your event funny. I noticed 1 small mistake in how I set up a recurring event, I changed it and ALL THE BOOKINGS ARE GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They aren't even in the database so I could try to manually rescue them. They are just gone. Oh, you changed your event I guess you don't need your bookings any more. Who thought this was a good idea?!

Great functionality

by hankenstein

Updated Review: I fixed my issue, and the plug-in is working great. Excellent for a free plug-in, and has a built-in state filtering mechanism that was critical to my purposes. In case anyone else runs into the same issue I had using this with Elementor and OceanWP theme: When I activated this plug-in, my fullwidth header became boxed. What worked for me was removing the header from the OceanWP theme library, and rebuilding it in the Elementor Theme builder. No more conflict.

hard to manage options and settings

by Valeria (valerfium)

it seemed a bit complicated to set up and not user friendly

This plugin rocks! | Developer's delight

by devinu

I love this plugin and it has a lot of tertiary support from the community. There is even a plugin to replace Google Maps with Open Street Maps, which I love. It has a lot of shortcode tools, which is why I would call it "developer's delight"!

Almost everything possible

by Heiko Mitschke (Antares7)

A really great plugin with a lot of options and it is very flexible. You can easily modify output with the plugin's settings page or even modify a huge amount of template files if necessary. Thank you for sharing and developing this excellent plugin!