The Best Event Management Plugins for WordPress

Are you planning to manage events on your WordPress site? Event management may not be built into WordPress, but there are some fantastic plugins for getting the job done.

With multiple event management plugins available available for WordPress, it can be difficult to choose the right plugin for your needs. Hence, we’ve come up with a list of the best event management plugins you can use to manage your events seamlessly. Later, we’ll also share ways to automate your event management tasks to make your life easy. Let’s get started.

The Events Calendar

With more than 800,000 active installations, The Events Calendar is one of the most popular event management plugins in the WordPress industry. You can use this feature-rich plugin to create and manage an events calendar for virtual and in-person events.

This plugin allows you to highlight your events with multiple views – month, day, week, list, photo, map, and more. You can set the time zone for the event, feature specific events to increase engagement, and import events from other calendars. With the help of shortcodes, blocks, and advanced widgets, you can embed the calendar or event on posts, pages, and sidebars. You can also display countdowns for your events if you want.

The Events Calendar comes with a free version, a pro version, and a library of extensions. You can use different extensions to take your event management to the next level. In addition to the extensions, products like Events Tickets (manage event tickets and RSVPs), Promoter (email marketing for events), Filter Bar (advanced search filter for calendar), and more work seamlessly with The Events Calendar plugin to extend its functionality.

Modern Events Calendar

Modern Events Calendar is a responsive events management plugin for WordPress. It can be used to manage events for small businesses, associations, communities, nonprofit organizations, social groups, and more.

The best part about this plugin is it offers 50+ stylish display layouts to choose from. Also, you can easily set up events using their detailed settings and options. This plugin allows frontend event submission – so your users can submit their own events with the necessary details.

Want to sell event tickets and register attendees? You can use the Tickets and Invoice addon for this purpose. This addon allows you to design custom event registration forms, accept payments, offer invoices, and display QR codes on the tickets.

Modern Events Calendar also offers multiple addons like User Dashboard, Advanced Maps, Waiting list, and much more for enhancing its functionality. This plugin can also be integrated with popular plugins and web apps like WooCommerce, Elementor, WPML, Google Calendar, Stripe, PayPal, MailChimp, and more.

Events Manager

The Events Manager plugin is a free event management plugin that allows you to create single or recurring events easily. With it, you can customize your events by adding descriptions, locations, and even custom event attributes (like dress code). You can then display your events using shortcodes or widgets on your WordPress site.

Just like other plugins, Events Manager also offers premium addons for adding extra features. For example, you can use the WooCommerce addon to sell event bookings directly from your website. You can also use addons to accept payments using PayPal, Stripe, and Authorize.net. You can even create custom booking forms and display them on your website for event registration.

Use Uncanny Automator to Automate Your Event Management Tasks

All the event management plugins mentioned in this article does a great job. However, you can take them to the next level by automating various event management tasks with the help of the Uncanny Automator plugin.

For those who are new here, Uncanny Automator is a powerful automation plugin for WordPress. You can use it to automate different tasks by connecting WordPress plugins and 3rd party web apps. All you need to do is create a recipe, add at least one trigger and one action, and you’re good to go.

Uncanny Automator offers useful triggers and actions for The Events Calendar, Events Manager, and Modern Events Calendar. And you can use these triggers and actions to connect to popular WordPress plugins and premium web apps for automating different tasks.

For example, you can register a user for a live event when someone submits a form (built using WPForms, Ninja Forms, Formidable Forms, or Gravity Forms), makes a donation (via GiveWP), or purchases a product (via WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads). You can also perform the following actions when someone registers for an event:

• Add the user to a mailing list
• Enroll the user in a course
• Add a tag to them in your CRM
• Add the user to a discussion group
• Send a notification to a Slack channel

Adding multiple triggers and actions is also supported in Uncanny Automator. Doing so will help you to create complex workflows. For example, when a user completes a course and fills out a course evaluation form, automatically register them for an event. Or, you can add a user to a mailing list, add a tag to them, and send them an email when they register for an event.

Final Thoughts on the Best Event Management Plugins

In this article, we’ve shared 3 of the best event management plugins for WordPress. You can use any of them to manage your events, register users, accept payments, and much more. You can also use the Uncanny Automator plugin with Modern Events Calendar, Events Manager, and The Events Calendar for automating your event management tasks.

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