Trevan Hetzel

<p>Smooth Calendar is a straightfowrward solution to displaying events on a WordPress site. First and foremost, the calendar view allows users of your site to quickly see events for a given month. Multiple events can be displayed on a single day and there is an option to display a single page for each event, perfect for linking people to an event page from social media!</p>
<p>The plugin uses JavaScript to fetch data, which provides for a fast and easy to use experience for users. The experience in the Dashboard is also very user friendly, as each event is a custom post type with easy to understand fields.</p>
<p>While the plugin can certainly be installed and used right out of the box, there is much room for flexibility and extending the plugin. From styling it to fit your site’s theme to adding even more functionality, this plugin was written in an extendable way to fit you as a site owner’s or developer’s needs.</p>
<p>A lot of time has been spent to make this calendar plugin as user friendly on as many devices as possible. It’s fully responsive and works on every modern device it’s viewed on. Phone, tablet, laptop or desktop, the user experience is just the same!</p>
<p>There is an abundance of WordPress calendar plugins, but if you’re looking for a responsive, easy to get going (and easy for clients to manage) calendar plugin, Smooth calendar is your best bet!</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Responsive</li>
<li>Supports multiple events on a single day</li>
<li>“Quick view” of event</li>
<li>Ability to have single pages for each event (which makes it SEO friendly)</li>
<li>Customizable colors</li>
<li>Easily extendable</li>
<li>Uses custom post types and metadata, which makes creating your own theme very straightforward</li>
<li>Allows the display of an event title, date, start/end time, location and description</li>
<li>Google Calendar integration</li>
</ul>


Smooth Calendar

Marcus (aka @msykes)

Pixelite

Marcus

nutsmuggler

<p>Events Manager is a full-featured event calendar, bookings, appointments, scheduling, and registration management plugin for WordPress ideal for everything from simple meetups to full-scale event planning. Built with flexibility, reliability and powerful features in mind.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://eventsmanager.site" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tutorials</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Beautiful calendars, search pages, lists, grids and booking forms to enhance your site events.</li>
<li>Easy event registration (single day with start/end times)</li>
<li>Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration
<ul>
<li>Build complex recurrence patterns with exclusion/blackout dates</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>NEW</strong> Multiple timeslots within the day for events with advanced creation options
<ul>
<li>Overlapping timeslots</li>
<li>Buffer between timeslots</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!)</li>
<li>Multiple Tickets</li>
<li>Fully-featured graph and statistics including bar/line/pie with comparison and stacking</li>
<li>MultiSite Event Support
<ul>
<li>Cross-Network Event Sharing – show your events and booking fromss on other subsites or main site</li>
<li>Network-wide Global Booking Management</li>
<li>BuddyPress and BuddyBoss Support</li>
<li>Create modular (independent) event subsites or inter-networked events</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>NEW</strong> Multiple custom event types (Archetypes), such as Workshops, Events, Webinars, Appointments etc.
<ul>
<li>Customize your labels, slugs and CPT names</li>
<li>Enable or disable specific features for specific event archetypes.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Multiple Location Types
<ul>
<li>Physical Locations</li>
<li>Online Events (URLs)</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager-zoom/" rel="ugc">Zoom Webinars/Meetings Integration</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>BuddyPress & BuddyBoss Support
<ul>
<li>Submit Events</li>
<li>Group Events</li>
<li>Personal Events</li>
<li>Activity Stream</li>
<li>more on the way</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Guest/Member Event submissions</li>
<li>Assign event locations and view events by location</li>
<li>Event categories</li>
<li>Easily create custom event attributes (e.g. dress code)</li>
<li>Google Maps <a href="https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/google-maps/api-usage/?utm_source=repo&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=gmaps-api" rel="nofollow ugc">(see our API usage recommendations)</a></li>
<li>Advanced permissions – restrict user management of events and locations.</li>
<li>Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars</li>
<li>Fine grained control of how every aspect of your events are shown on your site, easily modify templates from the settings pages and template files</li>
<li>iCal Feed (single and all events)</li>
<li>Add to Google Calendar buttons</li>
<li>RSS Feeds</li>
<li>Compatible with SEO plugins</li>
<li>Timezone Support – create events in different timezones</li>
<li>Plenty of template tags and shortcodes for use in your posts and pages</li>
<li>Actively maintained and supported</li>
<li>Lots of documentation and tutorials</li>
<li>And much more!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Data Privacy and GDPR Compliance</h4>
<p>We provide the tools to <a href="http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/data-privacy-gdpr-compliance/" rel="nofollow ugc">help you be GDPR compliant</a>, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>export/erasure of data via the WordPress Privacy Tools, including booking, event and location data</li>
<li>consent checkboxes on our booking, event and location forms on the frontend</li>
<li>settings to control what can be exported/erased as well as where/when to place consent requests</li>
<li>sample text for your site privacy policy describing what Events Manager does with personal data</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Features</h4>
<p>We have a premium <a href="http://eventsmanagerpro.com/gopro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro add-on for Events Manager</a> which not only demonstrates the flexibility of Events Manager, but also adds some important features including but not limited to:</p>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce integration (<a href="https://em.cm/wc" rel="nofollow ugc">sold separately</a>)</li>
<li>PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net and Offline Payments</li>
<li>Custom booking forms</li>
<li>Individual Attendee custom forms</li>
<li>Upload fields for bookings, attendees and users</li>
<li>Printable Invoices and Tickets</li>
<li>Send PDF tickets/invoices by email automatically</li>
<li>Check In/Out</li>
<li>Move bookings to other dates/times</li>
<li>QR Scanning
<ul>
<li>Manage bookings on your phone</li>
<li>Check In/Out users</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Waitlists</li>
<li>Automation – ultimate flexibility in automation!
<ul>
<li>Triggers:</li>
<li>X time before/after events start</li>
<li>When a booking status changes</li>
<li>When a booking was booked x time ago</li>
<li>Actions</li>
<li>Send Webhook (Zapier, MS Automation and many other services)</li>
<li>Send Email</li>
<li>Send WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram notifications</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram integration and interactive flows</li>
<li>Coupon Codes</li>
<li>Custom booking email per event and gateway</li>
<li>Faster support via private Pro forums</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information or to go pro, <a href="http://wp-events-plugin.com/features/" rel="nofollow ugc">visit our plugin website</a>.</p>
<h4>Additional Plugin Integrations</h4>
<p>Whilst there’s many third party integrations with our own plugin, here’s some we’ve integrated ourselves!</p>
<ul>
<li>Included in Events Manager (automatic integration)
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/" rel="ugc">BuddyPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fullcalendar/" rel="ugc">WP FullCalendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/thrive-automator/" rel="ugc">Thrive Automator</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Additional Add-Ons
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager-zoom/" rel="ugc">Zoom</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager-wpml/" rel="ugc">WPML Multilingual Sites</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!

This is a very nice solution for custom designed sites, where you need powerfull event functionality but to be able to design the looks your way. Great job.

A very capable plugin, and very flexible.


This plugin is extremly flexible in the configuration. You choose if you want to use custom WordPress templates, or adapt right in the admin area those that come with their built in template engine. You have robust support of recurring and multi day events. There are even various options to have registration right on the site. You have the possibility to enable registration on the front end and if needed you can extend almost everything with custom programming, and there is a good documentation on how to do that. Quite satisfied to have chosen this option, and am using it already for years!


Extremly flexible event manager

Events calendar with bookings, scheduling, appointments, event registration, tickets, recurring events, and venue management.

Smooth Calendar vs Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!