#95 by installs
The Events Calendar
The Events Calendar: #1 calendar plugin for WordPress. Create/manage events (virtual too!) on your site with the free plugin.
- Installs
- 600,000+
- Rating
- 4.2 (2.5K)
- Updated
- 2 days ago
Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, Appointments and more!
Events calendar and booking system: bookings, reservations, appointments, scheduling, event registration, tickets and recurring events.
- Active installs
- 60,000+
- #617 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 6.7M
- 6,688,616
- Downloads, 30 days
- 216.9K
- 61.3K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5
- 551 reviews
- Last updated
- 5 days ago
- Oct 26, 2026
- Version
- 7.4.12
- 250 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 26, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.1 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.0 or newer |
| First published | August 6, 2008 |
| Support, last two months | 25 of 41 threads resolved (61%) |
Reviews
4.2 / 5 from 551 reviews
| 5 stars | 389 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 41 |
| 3 stars | 24 |
| 2 stars | 35 |
| 1 star | 62 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Events Manager is a full-featured event calendar and booking system for WordPress: bookings, reservations, appointments, scheduling, event registration and ticketing, ideal for everything from simple meetups to full-scale event planning. Schedule one-off dates, recurring series or timeslots, take online bookings and sell tickets, all from one plugin built with flexibility, reliability and powerful features in mind.
- Demo
- Documentation
- Tutorials
Main Features
- NEW Integrate easily with your favourite AI via MCP, unlock the power of AI-powered Events!
- NEW API Rest Integration
- NEW EU Compliance Tools for “Right of withdrawal” (EU ‘Widerrufsbutton’)
- Beautiful calendars, search pages, lists, grids and booking forms to enhance your site events.
- Availability and reservation calendar: real-time availability per event, ticket and timeslot, shown on booking forms and exposed via the REST API
- Easy event registration and booking forms (single day with start/end times), with custom form fields in Pro
- Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration
- Build complex recurrence patterns with exclusion/blackout dates
- NEW Multiple time slots (timeslots) within the day for events with advanced creation options, so any event can work as a simple appointment scheduler
- Overlapping timeslots
- Buffer between timeslots
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
What can I use Events Manager for?
Events Manager is built to handle a wide range of use cases, including:
- Managing events, meetups, workshops and webinars
- Scheduling appointments and recurring events
- Planning and promoting conferences or festivals
- Handling event registration, RSVP, ticketing and ticket sales
- Accepting bookings with optional payments
- Managing venues and multiple event locations
Latest changelog entry
- Security: Fixed an unauthenticated information disclosure where the event and location map data endpoints could expose pending and private venue details, reported by 0xtrung via the Security Hunt
Screenshots
Innovative responsive calendar with rings to show eventful dates, colored by category, clickable to expand more event information. 
Completely customizable event widgets/blocks and shortcodes. 
Beautiful event pages which can be completely customized via our settings page. 
Share your events to popular calendar clients.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.