The Best of the Best
There are tons of plug-ins available for Event Calendars online. WordPress provides some of them directly from their main website, but there are also a variety of outside resources as well. After evaluating multiple plug-ins, the two in this article are the most useful overall.
One of the plug-ins available is the Event Calendar Pro, but in order to get the full benefit of the plug-in, you’ll need to upgrade. If you download the Events Calendar Premium plug-in for WordPress, it will enable you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.
Some of the features of the Premium plug-in include:
- Manage event details in the Events post type
- Upcoming Events Widget
- Provides full template to complement the 2010 theme out of the box (month and list view)
- Extensive template tags for customization
- Google Maps Integration
- Calendar Month view with tooltips
- Detailed List view
- In Depth Screencast and Documentation included just to be safe!
- Includes support for venue, cost, address, start and end time, Google maps link
- Support for international addresses, time and languages
Event Espresso is the premiere events registration and management plug-in for WordPress. WordPress developers use Event Espresso as an event registration framework to create customized event registrations for their clients. This premium plug-in for WordPress allows you to turn your existing blog or website into a fully featured event management website.
Event Espresso events are created from within the WordPress admin. The plugin even creates registration forms so attendees can sign up right on your website.
Here are some of the features of Event Expresso:
- Easily manage attendees from within your WordPress website.
- Manage all aspects of your event from the WordPress interface.
- Event Espresso users save hundreds and even thousands of dollars a year.
- Event Espresso is fully integrated with WordPress.
Best of all, attendee information is stored right in the WordPress database, allowing you to have access at any time.
The Winner Is . . .
While other plug-ins offer excellent calendars and easy-to-use interfaces, Event Expresso is the way to go. You can create as many events as you want. When you set one up you can add all of the information, including sign-up details, payment details and a Google map. You can also set time periods for registration, add custom email confirmations, limit the number of attendees as well as allow/prevent group registrations.
The Bonus: If you are running lots of different types of events, you can very easily put them all into different categories to a make them easier to manage. BIG smiley face!
The User Friendliest One Is . . .
. . . Event Expresso, and here are the reasons why. For the most part, there are a variety of filter controls on the Event Overview page including category, month, as well as active/inactive. There’s also a live search feature which filters events by their content based on the text that you enter as you type to quickly locate whatever events you might be looking for.
In WordPress, it just goes to show life is as easy as you make it, even when selecting a calendar plug-in. Happy coding!
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