Events calendar and booking system: bookings, reservations, appointments, scheduling, event registration, tickets and recurring events.
- Installs
- 60,000+
- Rating
- 4.2 (551)
- Updated
- 5 days ago
The Events Calendar
The Events Calendar: #1 calendar plugin for WordPress. Create/manage events (virtual too!) on your site with the free plugin.
- Active installs
- 600,000+
- #95 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 88.4M
- 88,404,202
- Downloads, 30 days
- 1.3M
- 307.8K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5
- 2,461 reviews
- Last updated
- 2 days ago
- Oct 29, 2026
- Version
- 6.18.3
- 422 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 29, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.9 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | January 19, 2010 |
| Support, last two months | 53 of 59 threads resolved (90%) |
Reviews
4.2 / 5 from 2,461 reviews
| 5 stars | 1,832 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 137 |
| 3 stars | 89 |
| 2 stars | 75 |
| 1 star | 328 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Easily create and manage an events calendar on your WordPress site with The Events Calendar free plugin. Whether your events are in-person or virtual events, this WordPress calendar plugin boasts professional features backed by our world-class team of developers and designers.
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Packed with loads of features, The Events Calendar is ready to go out of the box. It’s also extensible, easy to use, and completely customizable.
📅 The #1 Calendar for WordPress
See the calendar in action on our demo experience. Just getting started? Read through the New User Primer to get set up.
Looking for additional features like recurring events, ticket sales, user-submitted events, automatic imports, and more?
Check out Events Calendar Pro, Event Aggregator, and more add-ons.
🔌🎨 Plug and Play or Customize
The Events Calendar is built to work out of the box. Simply install the plugin, configure your settings, and start creating events in minutes.
Want to add your personal touch? Use The Events Calendar as the foundation for customization. Personalize to your heart’s content with the help of a skeleton stylesheet, partial template overrides, template tags, hooks and filters, careful documentation, and a library of free extensions.
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
Are there any troubleshooting steps you’d suggest I try that might resolve my issue before I post a new thread?
First, make sure that you’re running the latest version of The Events Calendar. If you’re running Events Calendar PRO or any other add-ons, make sure those are current / running the latest code as well.
The most common issues we see are either plugin or theme conflicts. You can test if a plugin or theme is conflicting by manually deactivating other plugins until just The Events Calendar is running on your site.
I’m still stuck. Where do I go to file a bug or ask a question?
Users of the free The Events Calendar should post their questions in the plugin’s WordPress.org forum, which we visit about once a week. Please make sure to read our sticky post providing an overview of the support we provide free users BEFORE posting. If you find you’re not getting support in as timely a fashion as you wish, you might want to consider purchasing a license for Events Calendar Pro.
What’s the difference between The Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro?
The Events Calendar is our cornerstone plugin, and it’s required in order to run any of our premium calendar add-ons, including Events Calendar Pro, Community Events, Filter Bar, and others.
In other words, Events Calendar Pro runs alongside The Events Calendar and enhances it with extra features, including recurring events, additional calendar views, calendar shortcodes, advanced widgets, custom event fields and…
What add-ons are available for The Events Calendar, and where can I read more about them?
The following add-ons are available for The Events Calendar:
- Events Calendar Pro, for adding premium calendar features like recurring events, advanced views, cool widgets, shortcodes, additional fields, and more!
- Event Aggregator, a service that effortlessly fills your calendar with events from Meetup, Google Calendar, iCalendar, Eventbrite, CSV, and ICS.
Can I import events to my calendar?
Yes! The Events Calendar has a built-in CSV import tool. If you want to step it up and automatically import events from Google Calendar, Meetup, Eventbrite and more, check out Event Aggregator.
How do I sell tickets to events on my calendar?
You’ll want to use our Event Tickets plugin for that. This free plugin works alongside The Events Calendar and lets you create RSVPs and tickets for events. Event Tickets integrates with PayPal so you can collect payments for tickets, while our premium solution, Event Tickets Plus fully integrates with WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads.
Latest changelog entry
- Language – 0 new strings added, 34 updated, 0 fuzzied, and 0 obsoleted.
- Security – Hardened access control checks for linked Organizers, Venues, and the Ignored Events admin action. Props to fcc for reporting.
- Security – Hardened how Event details are saved. Props to fcc for reporting.
- Security – Hardened the calendar export and add-to-calendar links. Props to ngvuthdanh for reporting.
- Security – Hardened the rendering of the Event timezone-change link in the classic Event editor. Props to fcc for reporting.
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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.