davidfcarr

<p>RSVPMaker is an event and email marketing tool. Use PayPal or Stripe to collect event payments. RSVPMaker handles scheduling, event marketing, and RSVP tracking. You can send email to small lists through your web server or take advantage of the integrations with Postmark and Mailchimp to scale up.</p>
<p>When implemented in combination with Postmark for reliable email delivery, RSVPMaker can function as an alternative to Mailchimp or MailPoet that allows you to format messages in the WordPress editor and easily incorporate events (for invitations) and blog posts or excerpts from posts (for email newsletters and promotions).</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6zp_NaGb7qs?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>Use RSVPMaker to:<br />
– Schedule and promote events of all sorts: conferences, classes, seminars, speaking events, parties and weddings are a few common uses.<br />
– Register attendees, prompting them to enter whatever information you need, including the names of guests.<br />
– Collect money using PayPal or Stripe.<br />
– Create webinars and other online events leveraging free resources like the YouTube Live service.<br />
– Create, format, and edit email newsletters within the WordPress block editor, rather than learning another content composer tool. Use dynamic blocks or shortcodes to incorporate dynamic content like lists of recent blog posts or upcoming events.<br />
– Power membership-oriented websites with tools for emailing all your members or just those who have or have not registered for a specific event.<br />
– Send email using your own web server, an SMTP plugin or the integrations with Mailchimp and Postmark.<br />
– Postmark integration has the advantage of supporting both broadcast / mailing list and transactional messages (like RSVP Confirmations).</p>
<h3>Creating and Managing Events</h3>
<p>RSVPMaker events are created and edited just like blog posts in the WordPress editor, with the addition of parameters like event date (so the items can be listed chronologically and displayed on a calendar grid).</p>
<p>Explore the editing experience with this <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https%3A%2F%2Fquickplayground.com%2Fwp-json%2Fquickplayground%2Fv1%2Fblueprint%2Frsvpmaker_editing%3Fx%3D1768757330%26user_id%3D1%252" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Playground demo</a> (created using the author’s Quick Playground plugin)</p>
<p>You can use RSVPMaker for event announcements, or turn on the Collect RSVPs function and set additional options for sending email notifications, customizing confirmation and reminder messages, and setting a price or prices if you will be requesting online payments via PayPal.</p>
<p>RSVP reports can be viewed on the administrator’s dashboard or downloaded as spreadsheets.</p>
<p>If you hold events on a recurring schedule, such as First Monday or Every Friday, you can define a template with the boilerplate details and quickly generate multiple entries that follow that schedule. Individual event posts can still be customized. For example, you might book a series of monthly events for the year and add the names of speakers or agenda details as you go along.</p>
<p>The RSVP Mailer tool allows you to use the familiar WordPress editor to format email newsletters and promotional messages, which can include embedded events and other dynamic content from your website. You use the same tools to format transactional messages such as confirmation and reminder messages.</p>
<h3>Hosting and Support</h3>
<p>RSVPMaker is a free plugin that doesn’t hold much back in terms of “premium” features.</p>
<p>The plugin author is available to consult on customizations, but most generally useful enhancements are folded back into the core plugin code. RSVPMaker also aims to be developer-friendly, allowing you to build event-centric applications on top of it.</p>
<p>Hosting and support of pre-configured websites is available through <a href="https://rsvpmaker.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">RSVPMaker.com</a>. RSVPMaker.com uses Siteground hosting behind the scenes and Postmark for reliable delivery of email newsletters and transactional messages.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:david@rsvpmaker.com?subject=RSVPMaker Postmark customizations" rel="nofollow ugc">Contact the plugin author</a> for details about additional customizations for reselling Postmark services across WordPress multisite networks.</p>
<p><a href="https://rsvpmaker.com/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>RSVPMaker.com</strong></a><br />
<a href="https://github.com/davidfcarr/rsvpmaker" rel="nofollow ugc">RSVPMaker on GitHub</a></p>
<p>Free Extensions:</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/rsvpmaker-for-toastmasters" rel="ugc">RSVPMaker for Toastmasters</a> provides meeting management for public speaking and leadership development clubs that are part of Toastmasters International.</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/rsvpmaker-volunteer-roles/" rel="ugc">RSVPMaker Volunteer Roles</a> Sign up people to fill specific roles at an event.</p>
<p>Translations (some may be out of date):</p>
<p>German: Markus König, Björn Wilkens</p>
<p>Dutch: Els van der Zalm</p>
<p>Spanish: Andrew Kurtis, <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>WebHostingHub</strong></a></p>
<p>Polish: Jarosław Żeliński</p>
<p>Norwegian: Thomas Nybø</p>
<p>Turkish: Göksel UÇAK</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Translators please reach out to me if you want an updated POT source file</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<pre><code>RSVPMaker
Copyright (C) 2010-2023 David F. Carr

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

See the GNU General Public License at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.

RSVPMaker also includes code derived from the software development kits for PayPal, 
Stripe, MailChimp, and Postmark under the license of their creators.
</code></pre>


RSVPMaker

Event and email marketing. Register guests and collect payment by PayPal or Stripe. Send invitations and newsletters.

dFactory

<p><a href="http://www.dfactory.eu/plugins/events-maker/" rel="nofollow ugc">Events Maker</a> is a fully featured event management plugin from <a href="http://www.dfactory.eu/" rel="nofollow ugc">dFactory</a> including recurring events, locations management, full calendar, iCal feed/files support and google maps integration.</p>
<h4>Powerful, flexible events management</h4>
<p>Events Maker allows you to easily create and manage your events. But at the same time is powerful and very flexible in customization.</p>
<h4>Responsive Events Calendar</h4>
<p>Users can browse for your events in a beautiful, responsive events calendar and display all events for the selected month, week od day.</p>
<h4>Automatic iCal support</h4>
<p>Events Maker automatically generates an iCal feed/files for all your events, categories, tags, locations, organizers and single events which can be used to import event information into calendar applications such as Google Calendar, iCalendar, Outlook, ThunderBird, etc.</p>
<h4>Locations with Google Maps</h4>
<p>Support for event locations and Google Maps has never been easier. Thanks to the geolocation you won’t need to mess around with latitude and longitude.</p>
<h4>WPML & Polylang compatibility</h4>
<p>Events Maker allows you to create and manage events, categories, locations and organizers in different languages using WPML or Polylang. So now, if you build a multilingual website, you won’t have to worry about the multilingual capability anymore.</p>
<h4>Recommended Community Themes:</h4>
<p>Browse beautiful WordPress themes compatible with Events Maker.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://themeforest.net/item/brentwood-golf-course-theme/13653957?ref=dfactory" rel="nofollow ugc">Brentwood</a> – Golf Course Theme</li>
<li><a href="http://themeforest.net/item/wise-mountain-vineyard-and-winery-theme/12368303?ref=dfactory" rel="nofollow ugc">Wise Mountain</a> – Vineyard and Winery Theme</li>
<li><a href="http://themeforest.net/item/the-food-truck-wordpress-theme/12995476?ref=dfactory" rel="nofollow ugc">The Food Truck</a> – Restaurant Theme</li>
<li><a href="http://themeforest.net/item/rock-harbor-church-wordpress-theme/10909693?ref=dfactory" rel="nofollow ugc">Rock Harbor</a> – Church WordPress Theme</li>
<li><a href="http://themeforest.net/item/growler-brewery-wordpress-theme/9177719?ref=dfactory" rel="nofollow ugc">Growler</a> – Brewery WordPress Theme</li>
<li><a href="http://themeforest.net/item/dining-restaurant-wordpress-theme-for-chefs/8294419?ref=dfactory" rel="nofollow ugc">Dining Restaurant</a> – WordPress Theme For Chefs</li>
</ul>
<p>Your favorite theme’s not listed here? Ask the theme developer to make it work with Events Maker – it’s quite simple.</p>
<h4>Features include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy Events management</li>
<li>Built using WordPress custom post types, custom taxonomies and custom post fields</li>
<li>Ajax Events Calendar</li>
<li>Event Search with customizable attributes</li>
<li>Display options for single events</li>
<li>Multiple Tickets and Pricing</li>
<li>Locations list page</li>
<li>Organizers list page</li>
<li>Full Calendar page</li>
<li>Automatic iCal feed/files support</li>
<li>Advanced recurring events, including daily, monthly, yearly and custom occurrences</li>
<li>Compatibility with Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen and Twenty Fifteen themes </li>
<li>Featured events</li>
<li>Event Categories and Tags</li>
<li>Event Ogranizers</li>
<li>Organizers contact details and image</li>
<li>Event Locations</li>
<li>Breadcrumb navigation</li>
<li>Google maps</li>
<li>Duplicating events</li>
<li>Builtin event gallery</li>
<li>RSS feed support</li>
<li>Customizeable template files</li>
<li>Events sorting</li>
<li>HTML description for event taxonomies</li>
<li>Google Rich Snippets ready</li>
<li>7 Events widgets</li>
<li>Multiple custom functions</li>
<li>Advanced hooks for developers</li>
<li>Custom permissions for Events</li>
<li>Multisite support</li>
<li>Compatible with WPML & Polylang</li>
<li>Compatible with SEO plugins</li>
<li>Customizable permalink structure</li>
<li>.pot file for translations included</li>
</ul>
<h4>Future plans:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Front-end events submissions</li>
<li>Event registration system</li>
</ul>


Events Maker by dFactory

Fully featured event management system including recurring events, locations management, full calendar, iCal feed/files, google maps and more.

RSVPMaker vs Events Maker by dFactory