Comments on: Event and Event Management, Registration Plugins for WordPress

By: John Hawkins

John Hawkins — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:26:02 +0000

You may also want to check out WP Event Ticketing. A free plugin in the WordPress directory.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpeventticketing/

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:33:14 +0000

Hi Garth,

You are totally right on about that! I will be rewriting this post soon to include Event Espresso and do a more thorough review of each plugin. Thanks for commenting!

Angela

By: Garth

Garth — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:32:23 +0000

I know Event Espresso is a more advanced plugin and has great support behind it. Should have made your first list.

http://eventespresso.com
http://eventespresso.com/about/testimonials/

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:19:37 +0000

Hi Rex,

The best event application to use to allow people to post events to your site would be Helios Calendar: http://www.helioscalendar.com/

It is a php application. We are using it on http://www.bouldercountyarts.org/cal/events

It doesn’t expressly work with WordPress and does not promise to integrate with it, but you can mirror your navigation and theme in it’s theme and then people won’t feel like they’ve left the WordPress site.

Angela

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:09:20 +0000

Hi Stuart,

There has been a great discussion on the WordPress LinkedIn Group on event calendar and even registration plugins. There are a couple new ones out that do have payment options. Here are a couple I’ve come across recently:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-events-registration/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/ – this one has optional ticketing with EventBrite integration.

Please let me know what you decide to use! I will update this post with some of the newer and improved plugins.

Angela

By: Stuart Bagley

Stuart Bagley — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:24:07 +0000

Great list of event plugins. I am looking for an event calendar that has a calendar and payment options.

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:41:53 +0000

Hi Rex,

The one application that I most recommend to people is the Helios Calendar: http://www.helioscalendar.com/. It’s not a WordPress plugin. It’s a standalone PHP application, but you could link to it from a menu on your site. It really rocks.

For more ideas, I’d highly recommend you get on LinkedIn and join the WordPress group there. There was a lengthy discussion on event calendar plugins, so you might find a WordPress specific one there. However, I’ve been hard pressed to find something more robust than Helios Calendar. We are using it with a Drupal site at: http://www.bouldercountyarts.org/cal/events

Let me know what you find!

Angela

By: Rex

Rex — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:42:02 +0000

Hi Angela,

Great blog post – thanks for sharing. Do you know of an event plugin that allows people to post an event on wordpress site? Most just allow the admin to do it.

Regards,
Rex

By: Frederic VUONG

Frederic VUONG — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:48:09 +0000

I am glad to announce the release of wp-simpleMeetingConfirmation. Available at the following address:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-simplemeetingconfirmation/

By: CYrus Ghorani

CYrus Ghorani — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:18:12 +0000

I have been using http://www.eventstorm.com The nice thing about them is that they have ALL the tools I need for marketing my event in one location. I can send email invitations and text messages to thousands of subscribers. The nicest thing is I don’t have to transfer my contacts between multiple sites. Another nice thing EventStorm allows me to is to easily re-create my event in Facebook and I can leverage that as an additional tool to promote my event. The greatest bonus is that their pricing beats all the other competitors for event ticketing, email marketing and mass text messaging out of the water. Definitely check them out!