Events Manager

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 215,710 people use plugins from this team.
  • 🏂 43% of 100,000+ users are on the latest version.
  • 📥 Seems like a popular plugin - 646 people download this plugin everyday.
  • 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 It takes two to tango! We found two people behind this plugin.
  • 📢 Aweful or Awesome?? 137 total updates and 137 in just last 12 months. That's a lot!
  • 🎂 This plugin is going to celebrate it's 11th anniversary after 2 months.

Key Numbers

  • 100,000+ Active Installs
  • 4.3 Avg. Users Rating
  • 282 Total Ratings
  • 2,454,429 Total Downloads
  • 2008-08-06 Added
  • 137 Releases in 12 Months
  • 2018-08-08 Last Update
  • 5.9.5 Current Version

Peer Comparison

# Plugin WPMeta Score Users Rating
1Events Manager4.2100,000+4.3
2Event Espresso Addon Payments1.130
3Woo Events Manager1800+4.5
4WP Events Manager WooCommerce1700+5
5Events Calendar Plugin – Press Events0.910+5
6Awesome Event Booking0.910+0
7Event SEO: Event Schema / Structured Data: Google Rich Snippet Schema for Event0.9500+4

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 207
4 Stars 19
3 Stars 15
2 Stars 13
1 Star 28
Unresolvable problems with submissions
by
I was really happy with this until I tried to get user submissions. The date picker didn't work. Repeatedly told that it was conflict with my theme or plugins. But once I uninstalled everything and the theme the problem STILL continued. This meant user submissions were never going to happen (no suggestion on how to resolve after two days of waiting) and I have to move everything over to another platform.
Causes Conflicts
by
This Events Manager plug in causes a conflicts with the Participant Database plugin on Wordpress web sites. The Event Manager developper is not interrested to solve the issue caused by Event Manager. So be very carefull when installing the Event Manager plugin. Back up any other database first in case EM will disturb your data.
Super !
by
Super plugin d’événement récurrent ou non, avec possibilité de faire un système d'inscription au événement. Simple, efficace, GRATUIT
Excellent, great, awesome!
by
Excellent, great, awesome!
Not for the novice
by
This plugin has a lot of capabilities IF you purchase the PRO version AND are willing to put the time in to make it yours. I will add that if you want a good events plugin, you should plan to spend some money. The difficulty with this plugin is you do need quite a lot of programming experience to make it look the way you want. Out of the box is not the way you want it to look if you care about the appearance of your site. Additionally, the pro support pages are painfully slow, if you have any questions, be prepared to spend some time on that too. Be sure you know .php before delving in to this product.
Awesome
by
This plugin is really well built. Developers can find so many customization tools (placeholders and shortcodes), but non experts can use it as well, although maybe not at 100%. Don't be upset by the tons of settings, it's really worth spending little time to learn them. Great job, guys!
So glad I found this plugin!
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I've used other more well-known plugins in the past, and they're just fine. But when building a more complicated website recently I found that even the premium versions of the plugins didn't do everything I needed. I found Events Manager and the free version in the WordPress repository gave me exactly what I needed for front-end submissions, and also gave me a much deeper level of integration options with their Placeholder content. I’m using it on another in-development site right now. The level of available customization is light years beyond what I was getting with those premium plugins. And thus far the support here in the WordPress forum has been great too!
Top Booking Manager
by
As a web developer I use this plugin for a fitness center booking. Around 20 bookings/day. It does all the job very smoothly. And the support is wonderful. Good luck to this team.
Activating this Plugin destroyed my dashboard
by
I downloaded and installed Events Manager. Everything went fine. When I clicked Activate this happened: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 41943040 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /home/fairmeadowchurch/public_html/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php on line 2265 Now this is all I see when I login to my site. No fix in site.
Full featured, powerful, great product!
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I have used this plugin for several years. I like that it does allow me to do a substantial amount of customization without having to know how to do any coding. Just CSS and using a comprehensive admin panel will let you tweak this to look exactly how you want, and deliver all the ticket customizations you can imagine. I have used the Pro plugin as well, and it has managed returns and refunds nicely. Reporting capabilities are excellent. The whole event, ticketing, booking, reporting logic flow of this product are exactly how my brain thinks they should be. That made learning this product very easy for me. I have used other ticket plug-ins that had the same feature set, but they just seemed less intuitive and harder to learn that Event Manager/Pro. This plugin is well documented and well supported. Been around a long time, and it is nice to be able to rely on a steady, consistent product. My only beef is that to take online payments you need to use the pro version. Pro adds even more features too, but I think they might be missing the market by not having a lite version that just supports paypal for a price point that is less than the very full featured Pro license.

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