Atte Moisio

<p>The purpose of this plugin is to add an event type similar to the normal post type. By design this plugin doesn’t provide any ready-made layouts, and allows the events to be fully integrated and customized to the theme of your choosing.</p>
<h3>Current Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Admin pages to view/create/modify events.</li>
<li>Available data fields for events: start date, end date, venue, category</li>
<li>Create weekly or biweekly recurring events</li>
<li>Fully customizable widget for displaying upcoming events.</li>
</ul>
<p>The custom post type created by the plugin is named ‘am_event’ and has two taxonomies: ‘am_event_categories’ and ‘am_venues’. Dates are stored as post metadata. Displaying the events is done in the theme files using WP_Query and the template tags provided by the plugin. This allows full control over the layout and what elements to show.</p>
<p>The widget for displaying upcoming events uses a simple template system for full control of the layout.</p>
<p>If you think something critical is missing, feel free to send me a request.</p>
<p>The plugin is available in the following languages (pot-file included for additional translations):</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Norwegian</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
</ul>
<h3>TUTORIAL</h3>
<p>For integrating AM Events to an existing theme, I suggest creating a <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes" rel="nofollow ugc">child theme</a> with custom page templates. You can find an example of a working Twenty Twelve child theme from <a href="https://github.com/attemoi/am-events-child-theme" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/attemoi/am-events-child-theme</a> containing three different page templates for event pages.</p>
<h4>Widget</h4>
<p>Here are the shortcodes available in the upcoming events widget template.</p>
<ul>
<li>[event-title]</li>
<li>[start-date]</li>
<li>[end-date]</li>
<li>[event-venue]</li>
<li>[event-category]</li>
<li>[content]</li>
<li>[thumbnail]</li>
<li>[excerpt]</li>
<li>[permalink]</li>
<li>[meta]</li>
</ul>
<p>Conditional shortcodes:</p>
<ul>
<li>[if cond=”startdate-is-enddate”]</li>
<li>[if cond=”startdate-not-enddate”]</li>
<li>[if cond=”startday-is-endday”]</li>
<li>[if cond=”startday-not-endday”]</li>
<li>[if cond=”has-venue”]</li>
<li>[if cond=”has-category”]</li>
</ul>
<p>The title can be linked to the event post with the ‘link’ attribute, e.g. [event-title link=true]</p>
<p>The category and venue can also be linked similarly to their respective archive pages using the ‘link’ attribute, e.g. [event-category link=true]</p>
<p>The number of words displayed in the title, content or excerpt can be limited by the ‘limit’ attribute, e.g. [content limit=25] or [event-title limit=10].</p>
<p>The dates can be formatted using the ‘format’ attribute, e.g. [start-date format=’d.m.Y H:i’] (see <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP date</a> for formatting options). If no format is given, the default WordPress date format is used.</p>
<p>You can use any shortcode as many times as needed in a single template. To separate date and time of start date for example you could write:</p>
<pre><code>[start-date format='d.m.Y']
<span>divider</span>
[start-date format='H:i']
</code></pre>
<p>Example usage of conditional shortcode:</p>
<pre><code>[start-date format='D d.m.Y H:s']
[if cond='startdate-not-enddate']
 - [end-date format='D d.m.Y H:s']
[/if]
</code></pre>
<h4>Template tags</h4>
<p>Template tags were introduced in version 1.3.0 and are listed below. More documentation can be found in the source files.</p>
<pre><code>// Template tags for getting and displaying event dates
am_the_startdate($format = 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $before = '', $after = '', $echo = true)
am_get_the_startdate( $format = 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $post = 0 )
am_the_enddate($format = 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $before = '', $after = '', $echo = true)
am_get_the_enddate( $format = 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $post = 0 )

// Template tags for getting and displaying event venues
am_get_the_venue( $id = false )
am_in_venue( $venue, $post = null )
am_get_the_venue_list( $separator = '', $parents='', $post_id = false )
am_the_venue( $separator = '', $parents='', $post_id = false )

// Template tags for getting and displaying event categories
am_get_the_event_category( $id = false )
am_get_the_event_category_list( $separator = '', $parents='', $post_id = false )
am_in_event_category( $eventCategory, $post = null )
am_the_event_category( $separator = '', $parents='', $post_id = false )
</code></pre>
<p>Example of displaying the first category of the current event post:</p>
<pre><code>$categoryArray = am_get_the_event_category();
echo $categoryArray[0]->name;<h3>Creating a WP_Query</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>The custom post type is named ‘am_event’<br />
The taxonomies are named ‘am_venues’ and ‘am_event_categories’.</p>
<p>The event post has metadata named ‘am_startdate’ and ‘am_enddate’ that are formatted like ‘yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm’</p>
<p>So suppose I wanted to display all events with a category of ‘other’ and venue ‘mcdonalds’. I would then make a WP_Query like this:</p>
<pre><code>$args = array(
        'post_type' => 'am_event',
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'tax_query' => array(
                'relation' => 'AND',
                array(
                    'taxonomy' => 'am_venues',
                    'field' => 'name',
                    'terms' => 'mcdonalds',
                ),
                array(
                    'taxonomy' => 'am_event_categories',
                    'field' => 'name',
                    'terms' => 'other'
                ),
        ),
    );

$the_query = new WP_Query($args);

if ($the_query->have_posts()) {
    while ($the_query->have_posts()) {
        $the_query->the_post();

        $postId = $post->ID;

        // Use template tags to get start and end date
        $startDate = am_get_the_startdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        $endDate = am_get_the_enddate('Y-m-d H:i:s');

        // Use template tags to get venues and categories in an array
        $venues = am_get_the_venue( $postId );
        $eventCategories = am_get_the_category( $postId );

        // All the other functions used for posts like
        // the_title() and the_content() work just like with normal posts.

        // ...  DISPLAY POST CONTENT HERE ... //

    }
}
</code></pre>
<p>If you want the events ordered by start date, add the following to $args:</p>
<pre><code>'orderby' => 'meta_value',
'meta_key' => 'am_startdate',
'order' => 'ASC',
</code></pre>
<p>If you need to display only upcoming events, add the following meta_query argument to $args:</p>
<pre><code>'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key' => 'am_enddate',
            'value' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time()),
            'compare' => ">",
        ),
),
</code></pre>
<p>The plugin folder also contains a file “examples.php”, which contains an example function for displaying upcoming events in a table.</p>


AM Events

This event plugin is a great foundation to build a custom calendar implementation on top of. It works well and provides many powerful options right out of the box.



Powerful, flexible, easy to mod

This plugin got loads of nice features unfortunately it hasn't been updated for quiet a while now.

I tried to use this plugin on a site the other day but unfortunately the date picker didn't returned the right format as well as the date field value send is not converted correctly to an unix timestamp it somehow always returns 0. Leaving you with only "1970-01-01 00:00:00" dates. Please look into this issue try different translations. I'm sure you have to use php's function strtotime() here.

Good luck,

Cheers Fleuv

Dead or still maintained

Manage and display your events. Allows fully customizable layouts and includes a widget for upcoming events.

Stachethemes

<h4>WooCommerce Seat & Table Booking System</h4>
<p>Stachethemes Seat Planner is a WooCommerce plugin for selling assigned seats, tables, and event tickets. Interactive maps, temporary holds during checkout, QR validation at the door, and a single dashboard to run the venue.</p>
<p><strong>Ideal for:</strong> cinemas, theaters, concerts, events, and restaurant table booking.</p>
<p><strong>Replace separate booking, seating, and ticketing plugins in WooCommerce</strong> with a single unified seat-based system—no second checkout, no disconnected inventory.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>Seat Planner Lite is the core seat booking system for WooCommerce—maps, holds, checkout, and check-in in one plugin. Upgrade to <strong>Stachethemes Seat Planner</strong> (Pro) for multi-date events, discounts, custom fields, PDF tickets, CSV import/export, unlimited layout objects, and more – see <strong>Premium Features</strong>.</p>
<h4>Core booking & seat management</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Table & seat support</strong> – Build both table layouts and seating charts in the same system.</li>
<li><strong>Drag-and-drop seat planner</strong> – Design your venue with seats, tables, screens, labels, and static objects.</li>
<li><strong>Interactive seat selection</strong> – Customers pick seats in real time on a map with zoom, pan, and seat details.</li>
<li><strong>Cart hold timer</strong> – Temporary seat holds while customers checkout to help prevent double bookings.</li>
<li><strong>Handicap / accessible seats</strong> – Mark accessible seats so they stand out on the map.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-fill and pattern tools</strong> – Place rows or sections quickly when building your layout.</li>
<li><strong>Per-seat pricing</strong> – Set prices by location, section, or individual seat.</li>
<li><strong>On-site-only seats</strong> – Restrict selected seats to on-site purchase via seat status.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Checkout & customer experience</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Standard WooCommerce cart and checkout</strong> – No separate ticketing checkout to learn.</li>
<li><strong>Configurable redirect after adding seats</strong> – Send customers to the cart, checkout, or a custom URL; optional cart timer on the storefront.</li>
<li><strong>Unique QR code per seat</strong> – Generated for each purchased seat for validation at the door.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-complete paid auditorium orders</strong> – Configurable, including mixed-cart behavior.</li>
<li><strong>Front-end dark mode and accent color</strong> – Brand the seat-selection experience.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce coupon seat limits</strong> – Require a minimum or maximum number of auditorium seats in the cart before a coupon applies.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Manager & day-of operations</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Run the venue from one screen</strong> – See what is free, block seats for holds or VIPs, and fix availability without waiting on a customer order.</li>
<li><strong>Sell at the door or comp a seat</strong> – Create a single-seat order from the floor when someone pays in person or gets a complimentary ticket.</li>
<li><strong>Fix mistakes without re-checkout</strong> – Move a customer to another seat on an existing order when they picked the wrong one.</li>
<li><strong>Know who is inside</strong> – Filter by scanned tickets and reset check-in when staff scans the wrong code.</li>
<li><strong>Detect and fix double bookings and stale inventory</strong> – Automatically find conflicts, seats stuck as taken, and unpaid orders still blocking sales.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Check-in & ticket validation</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Built-in web scanner</strong> – Validate tickets with a camera QR scanner in your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li><strong>Scan records</strong> – Each scan updates ticket status; invalid or already-scanned tickets are shown clearly.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations & layout tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Shortcodes</strong> – Embed a “Select seat” button or live seat counts on any page.</li>
<li><strong>Elementor widgets</strong> – Select Seat Button and Seat Count widgets.</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg blocks</strong> – Select Seat Button and Seat Count blocks.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Statistics & analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>See how the event is selling</strong> – Seats sold, occupancy, revenue, and order counts at a glance; trends over time; breakdown by order or date; a simple read on how fast you are filling the house.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium Features</h3>
<p>Upgrade to <strong><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/stachethemes-seat-planner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Stachethemes Seat Planner</a></strong> on WooCommerce for the full feature set, including everything in Lite plus:</p>
<h4>Core booking & seat management</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Unlimited layout objects</strong> – No 100-object cap in the seat planner editor.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple event dates on one product</strong> – One seat map, many performances.</li>
<li><strong>Best Available</strong> – Auto-select the best contiguous seats; filter by price when seats have different rates.</li>
<li><strong>Optional sales rules</strong> – Stop sales before the event; prevent isolated empty seats; min/max seats per purchase.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pricing, discounts & upsells</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Seat-level discounts</strong> – Percentage or fixed amount on selected seats or groups; optional role restrictions.</li>
<li><strong>Custom fields per seat</strong> – Free or paid add-ons, upgrades, meal choices, and more (with conditional display).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Checkout & customer experience</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>PDF tickets</strong> – Attach ticket details and QR codes to order emails; optional My Account downloads.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Manager & day-of operations</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bulk create orders</strong> – Create orders for multiple seats at once from Manager.</li>
<li><strong>Full booking edits</strong> – Change seat, date, discounts, and custom fields on existing orders.</li>
<li><strong>Move bookings to another date</strong> – For multi-date products (bulk action supported).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Check-in & ticket validation</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Free Android app</strong> – Door check-in; pairs with your site via integration settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations & layout tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>CSV import & export</strong> – Seat layouts in the seat planner editor; export bookings from the product or Manager (filter by date, choose columns).</li>
<li><strong>Script embed</strong> – Run seat selection on external sites with an allowed-origins whitelist.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Statistics, reports & analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>CSV export</strong> – Statistics tables and booking exports.</li>
<li><strong>Automated email reports</strong> – Scheduled occupancy and sales summaries, with CSV and optional color-coded seat-map snapshot.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/stachethemes-seat-planner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check it out on WooCommerce</a></p>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p><a href="https://stachethemes.com/seat-planner/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a></p>
<h3>Source Repository</h3>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zbozhilov/stachethemes-seat-planner-lite" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repository</a></p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mui.com/material-ui/material-icons/" rel="nofollow ugc">Material UI Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://react-hot-toast.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">React Hot Toast</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-zoom-pan-pinch" rel="nofollow ugc">React Zoom Pan Pinch</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Gutenberg blocks – “Select Seat Button” (embed the add-to-cart flow on any page) and “Seat Count” (display available, sold, or other seat totals for a product).</li>
<li>Added: Site Health tools – now check for problems with QR Code.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Dark mode option for the front-end interface. Turn it on in Dashboard -> Settings -> Colors to apply a dark theme to the date/time picker, seat selector form fields, and cart timer.</li>
<li>Added: WooCommerce coupon seat limits for auditorium products. On the coupon edit screen you can set a minimum and/or maximum number of auditorium seats required in the cart before the coupon applies.</li>
<li>Added: Elementor widgets – “Select Seat Button” (embed the add-to-cart flow on any page) and “Seat Count” (display available, sold, or other seat totals for a product and optional date). Find them under the Stachethemes Seat Planner category in the Elementor editor.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Update: QR Code now supports PHP 8.5</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.1</h3>
<p>Added: A new option for “Redirect Customers After Successful Addition” enabling admins to send customers to a custom URL after seats are added to the cart.</p>
<h3>1.6.7</h3>
<p>Added: Stalled Orders check in Dashboard -> Tools -> Booking Integrity. Lists pending/failed orders that hold auditorium seats without payment markers or an active slot lock (same rules as checkout conflict auto-cancel). Report only; does not modify orders.<br />
Update: Refreshed General tab UI for auditorium products in the admin.<br />
Fixed: Saving the seat planner, dates, discounts, or custom fields no longer fails when text includes certain characters (for example in seat labels).</p>
<h3>1.6.6</h3>
<p>Added: QR code scanner – choose which camera device to use<br />
Update: Various small improvements to the Seat Editor</p>
<h3>1.6.5</h3>
<p>Update: Security improvements<br />
Added: Better protection against double bookings. The plugin now checks seat conflicts earlier and helps prevent stale pending reservations from blocking available seats.</p>
<h3>1.6.4</h3>
<p>Update: Faster and more reliable seat updates when order statuses change (e.g. payment received, order completed)<br />
Update: Manager section now processes seat changes more efficiently</p>
<h3>1.6.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: RTL Support (beta) for right-to-left languages</li>
<li>Fixed: Orders with only seat tickets now automatically move to “Completed” after payment (e.g. Stripe) instead of staying at “Processing”</li>
<li>Update: Clearer description for the “Force Auto-Complete Mixed Orders” setting</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Option in Manager -> Availability to filter seats by scan status using the “Scanned” toggle, showing only seats that have been scanned (QR code checked in)</li>
<li>Added: Option in the Manager Edit Seat page to unscan a ticket, view scan details, and clear scan status when needed</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed: Closing the color picker without choosing a new color no longer clears the color from your selected items</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Price input now allows decimal values</li>
<li>Added auto-fill mode in the Seat Planner Editor for faster objects creation</li>
<li>Added arc transform tool in the Seat Planner Editor</li>
<li>Added flip transform tool in the Seat Planner Editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.5.6</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added Statistics page in the Manager section with product analytics: summary cards (seats sold, occupancy, revenue, orders), revenue and sales over time (by event date or order date), sales-by-order and sales-by-date tables with CSV export, and velocity projection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.5.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>QR code styling updated to use accent color</li>
<li>Added rotation feature in the Seat Planner Editor for rotating elements</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.5.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added option to create Order from the Manager section</li>
<li>Added new shortcode [stachesepl_count] for displaying the total seat count for auditorium product(s).</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.4.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added seat details tooltip on mobile devices</li>
<li>Added new option in general settings to show or hide the seat details tooltip</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.4.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Manager section in the Admin Panel</li>
<li>Added option to hide the QR Code</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>New tool “Edit Order”, enabling admins to modify existing orders data, such as changing seat ID.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>New general option “Enforce WooCommerce Cart Calculation”. This option helps fix the issue with missing cart price on certain themes.</li>
<li>Fixed issue where the cart timer may not work properly on certain carts</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.42</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a bug where setting a non-existent or invalid product ID in the shortcode caused a crash.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.40</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option to disable the “Select Seat” button on product listings (product loops) such as the Shop page and category pages.</li>
<li>New Accent Color option for simpler front-end UI color customization. Legacy color customization options have been removed.</li>
<li>Merged Cart Timer and Add to Cart settings into a new Cart Behaviour tab in the plugin settings.</li>
<li>Front-end UI now displays the Close button at all times.</li>
<li>Front-end UI buttons and elements now follow the Accent Color setting.</li>
<li>Converted the Round Corners option to a slider for better control over element border radius.</li>
<li>Minor fixes and improvements.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.38</h4>
<ul>
<li>The Plugin now uses it’s own “Select Seat”, “View Cart” buttons.</li>
<li>Added option to change colors for “Select Seat”, “View Cart”, “Add to Cart” buttons.</li>
<li>Added Front-end seat tooltip</li>
<li>Added Compatibility mode for cache plugins (e.g. WP Rocket, LiteSpeed) when lazy loading breaks due to JS optimization.</li>
<li>Added New editor option “Additional Class Name” allowing custom CSS classes to be attached to objects.</li>
<li>Improved UI for adding dates to the product.</li>
<li>“Seat Reservation Time” and “Auto-Complete Orders” options moved to the new General tab in plugin settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.36</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added new plugin dashboard centralizing settings and features.</li>
<li>Added new option “Auto-Complete Orders”: automatically marks orders as Completed when payment is received for auditorium products.</li>
<li>Added new option to control whether users are redirected after adding seats to the cart.</li>
<li>Added new option to choose whether users are redirected to the cart or checkout page.</li>
<li>Added new option to control whether customers are shown a message during redirection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.35</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Dashboard Widget showing Seats Sold & Revenue for the last 30 days</li>
<li>Added Option to Lock objects in the Drag & Drop Editor </li>
<li>Added Visual UI for turning grid-snap on/off, grid color, grid size</li>
<li>Added message when user is redirected to cart/checkout page on the front-end</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.34</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix where product can be incorrectly flagged as Unavailable</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.33</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix where deleting a draft order can accidentally release slot reservation</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.32</h4>
<ul>
<li>UI/UX improvements</li>
<li>Added UI for Auto Incremental Patterns</li>
<li>Added Booking Integrity Checker Tools</li>
<li>Added option to check Reservation Details from the front-end if the user has Shop Manager role</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.28</h4>
<ul>
<li>Minor fixes & improvements</li>
<li>Enabled option to Scan QR Codes from the Dashboard</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.5</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add to cart seat validation improvements</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>Initial public release with core seat selection features.</li>
</ul>


Stachethemes Seat Planner Lite

Let customers select and reserve exact seats or tables in WooCommerce, prevent double bookings during checkout, and validate entry with QR tickets.

AM Events vs Stachethemes Seat Planner Lite