Description
Suffering with a complicated and feature-bloated event management plugin is not a situation you need to be in. You’ll want an intuitive, snappy way to create events fast. What’s more, you’ll need a quick way to set events up regardless of whether they are in-person, virtual, or everything in between. WP Event Manager is a lightweight and scalable plugin that helps you implement a full-featured event management system within WordPress for both live and virtual events.
WP Event Manager works out of the box with practically every WordPress theme, so you won’t need to develop any custom solutions or make extra purchases. It also offers a number of ways to customize the look of your events listings, and you can even supercharge your event management using premium add-ons.
Both attendees and site owners love to use WP Event Manager, and our team is ready to stand by your side to help you run any and every event you hold:
“…users rave about the developer support for the free version of the plugin…”
– Brian Jackson, woorkup
It’s the number one way to set up and list events on your WordPress website.
👉🏻 WP Event Manager: Everything You Need to Manage Your Events for Free
If you want to set up events in a hurry, WP Event Manager has all the core features and functionalities you need to create a robust event management system in just a few minutes:
- Add, remove, and organize your event listings using the familiar WordPress interface – you won’t need to leave the dashboard.
- Assign event locations to each of your events, and group them by those locations.
- Create custom event fields, to help you personalize your events and make them unique.
- Event organizers can log in and access full event management features, such as viewing, editing, deleting, and canceling events.
- Get live previews of every event you create, so you’ll know how your attendees will see your event listing.
- Display each event listing by simply using shortcodes within your content. There are different shortcodes to help you present your events in many different ways.
👉🏻 Give Users the Power to Find Events Through Search
Once you add events to your site, you’ll want users to find them. WP Event Manager includes lots of ways to direct your users towards your events, fast:
- You can search and filter events on the front-end using shortcodes. Each listing is ‘AJAX-powered’ for a super slick presentation.
- Guests and registered users can submit and manage event listings using a front-end form.
- You’re able to easily attach an email address and/or website URL to each event listing, so users have more ways to find your event, and search engines get the opportunity to index it.
- A user can also employ built-in RSS functionality to subscribe to similar events, meaning they’ll never miss your next one.
- There is full-featured taxonomy management included in WP Event Manager, and users can also filter events based on their current location.
There’s more to discover about WP Event Manager, and our website and documentation have everything you need to know about the complete experience.
👉🏻 WP Event Manager Provides a Class-Leading User Experience
WP Event Manager is a user-focused event management solution, and provides a class-leading experience for every user:
- The plugin offers typical cross-browser support for Google Chrome, Firefox, Apple Safari, and Opera.
- The interface is smooth to scroll through, thanks for AJAX-powered design elements. What’s more, it looks fantastic on all screen sizes.
- There are widgets available for recent events, upcoming events, and featured events. This means you can display your events almost anywhere on your site. With our premium Calendar add-on, you can display calendar events in multiple places on your website, in a number of different ways.
- Every user gets comprehensive documentation and video tutorials on how to get the best out of WP Event Manager.
- There are lots of different ways to get support if you need it. Free WP Event Manager users can submit a request to our dedicated WordPress.org forum. There’s also a support forum to provide a community that’s ready to help you solve any issues you have with WP Event Manager.
Site owners love WP Event Manager, and so do users. This is why it’s the leading event management plugin on the market:
“…This is a valuable plugin that many WordPress users can benefit from.…”
David Coleman – WP Mayor
You’ll find plenty of five-star reviews and recommendations across our site, and here on WordPress.org too!
👉🏻 A Developer-Focused Event Management Plugin for Serious WordPress Businesses
Developers will also love to work with WP Event Manager. It’s a clean, well-coded solution under the hood that comes with a number of helpful inclusions:
- Search engine optimization built into the code as standard.
- A translation-ready codebase to help globalize event copy.
- Caching support, to keep things running fast and friction-free.
- Plenty of endpoints and template files to provide deep customization to the core WP Event Manager code.
- A debug mode to ensure your WP Event Manager installation runs smooth at all times.
You can also contribute to WP Event Manager – the WP Event Manager GitHub Repository is always looking for Added contributors to help with the project. Regardless of whether you are a stie owner, end user, or developer, WP Event Manager is the go-to event management plugin for WordPress.
👉🏻 WP Event Manager Offers Translations Into a Number of Different Languages
The WP Event Manager plugin offers over 40 inbuilt translations, making sure your events setup is easy and immediately available in your own language:
✔️ Arabic – (ar)
✔️ Arabic (Algerian) – (arq)
✔️ Arabic (Moroccan) – (ary)
✔️ Bengali – (bn_BD)
✔️ Bulgarian – (bg_BG)
✔️ Chinese (China) – (zh_CN)
✔️ Dutch – (nl_NL)
✔️ English (Australia) – (en_AU)
✔️ English (UK) – (en_GB)
✔️ English (Canada) – (en_CA)
✔️ English (Added Zealand) – (en_NZ)
✔️ English (South Africa) – (en_ZA)
✔️ French – (fr_FR)
✔️ French (Belgium) – (fr_BE)
✔️ German – (de_DE)
✔️ German (Switzerland) – (de_CH)
✔️ Greek – (el)
✔️ Hebrew – (he_IL)
✔️ Hindi – (hi_IN)
✔️ Icelandic – (is_IS)
✔️ Indonesian – (id_ID)
✔️ Italian – (it_IT)
✔️ Japanese – (ja)
✔️ Latvian – (lv)
✔️ Lithuanian – (lt_LT)
✔️ Nepali – (ne_NP)
✔️ Polish – (pl_PL)
✔️ Portuguese (Brazil) – (pt_BR)
✔️ Portuguese (Portugal) – (pt_PT)
✔️ Romanian – (ro_RO)
✔️ Russian – (ru_RU)
✔️ Serbian – (sr_RS)
✔️ Sinhala – (si_LK)
✔️ Slovak – (sk_SK)
✔️ Spanish (Spain) – (es_ES)
✔️ Spanish (Mexico) – (es_MX)
✔️ Spanish (Colombia) – (es_CO)
✔️ Spanish (Chile) – (es_CL)
✔️ Swedish – (sv_SE)
✔️ Turkish – (tr_TR)
✔️ Ukrainian – (uk)
✔️ Vietnamese – (vi)
WP Event Manager also supports Right-To-Left (RTL) languages as standard, so you can use the plugin for international events, regardless of your target primary language.
More languages are earmarked for addition in the future too. We’d love more contributors to our translation efforts, and you can assist through the translate.wordpress.org website!
👉🏻 Get More From Your Event Management Using Premium Add-Ons
The free version of WP Event Manager is full-featured and ready to use. However, if you want more functionality without learning to code (or hiring a developer), the plugin lets you purchase and install a number of add-ons to enhance your experience.
👥 Registrations
Attendees can register for events using a form, and organizers can view and manage registrations from WordPress.
🎟 Sell Tickets
Gives you the ability to integrate the ability to sell tickets for your events with WooCommerce – the most popular e-commerce platform for WordPress. You can create multiple event tickets for purchase (or that you can redeem) during submission.
🗓 Calendar
This lets you display an event calendar that lists upcoming events on your website. We think calendar events are the most convenient way to display your listings!
🗺 Google Maps
This add-on lets you integrate the popular map functionality on your site. You can find events based on location, and the add-on also enables proximity search on your site.
📆 Recurring Events
If you need to create a batch of events to generate on a regular basis, this add-on will be perfect.
📝 Attendee Information
Coordination is a big part of event management, and this add-on lets you collect information about the attendees at the point of registration.
✉ Emails
Getting notifications about your events will help you manage them better. This add-on will send you notifications in three situations: when you submit an event, when you approve an event, and when an event is over.
🎨 Colors
While there is a lot of customization within WP Event Manager, the Colors add-on gives you more options. With this add-on you’re able to change the colors for the event type and categories, to help direct visitors to the right event listing.
WP Event Manager can also be your virtual event platform too. Our Expo Networking add-on turns your WordPress website into a live streaming platform that includes a number of necessary features:
- A 360-degree experience, including one-to-one meeting rooms, virtual booths, and much more.
- A great-looking ‘reception area’, designed to greet attendees and direct them to the right room or booth.
- You can include polls, Question-and-Answer sessions, and other ‘fact-finding’ engagement features.
- Speaking of which, you can also implement other engagement functionalities including speed networking, breakout rooms, and more.
Combined with our Speaker and Schedule, and Registrations add-ons, you’ll have a complete live streaming platform ready to go, from within your WordPress dashboard.
👉🏻 Choose Bundles to Grab Related WP Event Manager Add-Ons for Your Site
We package a number of add-ons in three different bundles, to save you money and offer you related functionality at a steal:
👤 Personal Bundle
You’ll find every add-on we produce in one complete package.
📡 Virtual Bundle
This provides a collection of add-ons to help you run online events and expos, so you can set up a virtual event platform of your own.
💻 Developer Bundle
This bundle also provides all of our add-ons, but lets you use them on five different domains.
Whatever your budget, WP Event Manager has a solution to help you implement top-notch event management for your site. Regardless, the free version of the plugin is free forever, and its core functionality will always be free.
👉🏻 Documentation and Support
There are lots of ways to find out the information you need to use WP Event Manager in an optimal way:
- For answers to basic questions on WP Event Manager, WordPress, and our ecosystem, you’ll want to look at the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page on our site.
- For general information, our knowledge base is the best place to head to.
- If you’re a visual learner, the WP Event Manager YouTube channel offers lots of guides to both basic and advanced use cases.
- Social media users will want to join the Facebook community for WP Event Manager.
- Developers should head over to Slack or GitHub to ask any questions, and find out more about how WP Event Manager is customizable to fulfil different project requirements.
As with every WordPress plugin, you can ask for general support from the free version of WP Event Manager on the dedicated WordPress.org support forum. Premium support customers have a specific point on our site to direct tickets.