Plugin: events-manager (Used by 15,895 domains)

Events Manager is a full-featured event calendar, bookings, appointments, scheduling, and registration management plugin for WordPress ideal for everything from simple meetups to full-scale event planning. Built with flexibility, reliability and powerful features in mind.

• Demo
• Documentation
• Tutorials

Main Features

• Beautiful calendars, search pages, lists, grids and booking forms to enhance your site events.
• Easy event registration (single day with start/end times)
• Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration
  • Build complex recurrence patterns with exclusion/blackout dates
• NEW Multiple timeslots within the day for events with advanced creation options
  • Overlapping timeslots
  • Buffer between timeslots
• Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!)
• Multiple Tickets
• Fully-featured graph and statistics including bar/line/pie with comparison and stacking
• MultiSite Event Support
  • Cross-Network Event Sharing – show your events and booking fromss on other subsites or main site
  • Network-wide Global Booking Management
  • BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Support
  • Create modular (independent) event subsites or inter-networked events
• NEW Multiple custom event types (Archetypes), such as Workshops, Events, Webinars, Appointments etc.
  • Customize your labels, slugs and CPT names
  • Enable or disable specific features for specific event archetypes.
• Multiple Location Types
  • Physical Locations
  • Online Events (URLs)
  • Zoom Webinars/Meetings Integration
• BuddyPress & BuddyBoss 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

Premium Features

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:

• WooCommerce integration (sold separately)
• PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net and Offline Payments
• Custom booking forms
• Individual Attendee custom forms
• Upload fields for bookings, attendees and users
• Printable Invoices and Tickets
• Send PDF tickets/invoices by email automatically
• Check In/Out
• Move bookings to other dates/times
• QR Scanning
  • Manage bookings on your phone
  • Check In/Out users
• Waitlists
• Automation – ultimate flexibility in automation!
  • Triggers:
  • X time before/after events start
  • When a booking status changes
  • When a booking was booked x time ago
  • Actions
  • Send Webhook (Zapier, MS Automation and many other services)
  • Send Email
  • Send WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram notifications
• WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram integration and interactive flows
• 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.

Additional Plugin Integrations

Whilst there’s many third party integrations with our own plugin, here’s some we’ve integrated ourselves!

• Included in Events Manager (automatic integration)
  • BuddyPress
  • WP FullCalendar
  • Thrive Automator
• Additional Add-Ons
  • Zoom
  • WPML Multilingual Sites