While websites like Eventbrite and Eventzilla are great to manage your events online, and you can also have an event calendar for website through software that is pretty nifty and should fulfill your needs, you might prefer to manage your events from the dashboard if you have a WordPress-based site. We have collected some of the best event management plugins you can install on WordPress.

A good event management plugin is the one that not only allows you to manage attendees, event schedules, booking forms, RSVPs, and so on.

One of the advantages of using an event management plugin is that you don’t need to share the profit of your ticket sales with a third-party as an online management tool commonly requires you to share the ticket sale with it. The following are the most recommended event management plugins for WordPress.

1. WP Event Manager

One of the event management plugins you can install on your WordPress site is WP Event Manager. As described on its official site, WP Event Manager is a lightweight, open source event management solution. You can install and use this plugin for free, but only for basic functionality. You can use this plugin to manage event listings from the WordPress dashboard and allow users to post event listings to your site. WP Event Manager generates money by selling add-ons. While you can use this plugin for free, you need to buy the add-ons to get features like calendar, Google Maps, registration, ticketing, notifications, and so on.

At the time of writing, WP Event Manager has over 3,000 installations. This plugin works seamlessly on the vast majority of WordPress themes.

2. Event Organiser

Event Organiser is a WordPress event management plugin developed by a Scottish developer named Stephen Harris. You can also use this plugin for free with basic features. This plugin allows you to create whether one-time events or recurring events. Event Organiser comes with a calendar feature. If you want to add booking management and payment gateway, the pro version is also available with the price of $50 for a single site. Event Organiser has been used by over 40,000 users according to a brief stat on the WordPress plugin directory page. The user interface of Event Organiser is easy enough to learn for new users.

3. Events Manager

Events Manager is one of the most popular event management plugins for WordPress with over 100,000 installations. It is a feature-rich event management plugin, allowing you to create events, accept bookings, and manage attendees. Like the first two plugins above, Events Manager is also released as a freemium plugin, but the free version of this plugin has more features than two plugins above. Features like Google Maps and capacity management are available on the free version. You just need to upgrade to Events Manager Pro if you want to use it to sell event tickets and integrate it with PayPal or Authorize.net. The pro version of Events Manager also comes with a discount management feature. You can visit the demo page of Events Manager to learn how this plugin works.

4. All-in-One Event Calendar

All-in-One Event Calendar is a plugin developed by Timely, an online calendar tool for website. This plugin has over 100,000 installations, indicating that it is popular enough event management plugin. Just like the three first plugins above, All-in-One Event Calendar by Timely can also be used for free. This plugin has a great filtering feature that allows you to color-coded events based on category. Timely offers add-ons to extend its basic functionalty. While the core of this plugin has basic event management features you can install add-ons to add features like front end submission form and ticketing.

5. Event Espresso

Event Espresso is another feature-rich event management plugin for WordPress. You can use also this plugin to sell your event tickets and manage attendees, but you need to upgrade to the pro version to do so since the free version only comes with the basic event management features. You can use this plugin to create signup forms to collect information about your attendees and create reports. If you want to use Event Espresso to sell your event tickets, you can add multiple payment methods as Event Espresso supports PayPal, Authorize.net, and bank transfer. At the time of writing, Event Espresso has roughly 2,000 installations.

6. The Events Calendar

The Events Calendar can be a great plugin if you are an indie musician and want to display your performing schedules on your website. At the time of writing, The Events Calendar has over 700,000 according to a stat on the WordPress plugin directory page. The Events Calendar allows you to create one-time events or recurring events. You can visit this page to see a demo of this plugin. Just like other plugins above, The Events Calendar can also be used for free if you just need to manage event listings.

7. My Calendar

My Calendar is an event management plugin for WordPress developed by a developer named Joseph C Dolson. This plugin is also great enough to display your events on your website to let your fans, consumers or your users know about your schedules. Your event calendars can be displayed by categories, locations, and author. It is also possible if you want to add user-submitted events feature on your website, but you need to upgrade to the pro version to add this feature. Your calendar can be viewed in either list or grid. At the time of writing, My Calendar has about 30,000 active installations.

8. Calendarize it! for WordPress

Calendarize it! for WordPress is a paid plugin that you can get on CodeCanyon. This plugin is especially a great option if you use WPBakery Page Builder as it supports the page builder plugin. The developer of Calendarize it! for WordPress has also optimized it with Gutenberg editor.

9. Modern Events Calendar

Modern Events Calendar is another great plugin if you have an event website or want to add a booking service on your website. This plugin is easy enough to use. This plugin allows you to create different single or recurring events and show them in frontend of your website using many modern skins and styles. Modern Events Calendar is developed by Webnus, a website that sells WordPress themes and plugins. This plugin has over 20,000 active installations at the time of writing.