Comparing some of the top event calendar plugins for WordPress.

2. About Me
• Co-owner of Adcock Creative in Newnan, GA
• Freelancing since 2010
• Website Design since the 90’s
• WordPress since 2010
• Specializes in Churches, Ministries, and
Retirement Communities

3. Let’s Look At The
Contenders
• The Events Calendar and The Events
Calendar Pro
• Modern Events Calendar Lite and Modern
Event Calendar
• All in One Events Calendar
• Event On
• Sugar Calendar Lite and Sugar Calendar

4. Ask The Right
Questions
Do you need a calendar to show everything or just featured events?
Do you need to connect it to a google calendar or other hosted calendar?
Do you need frontend submissions?
Do you have recurring events?
On recurring events do you want only the first to show?
Do you need to have people register for events?
Do they need to pay for events?
Will you have an online store as well?
Do you need to collect any information beyond name and address for events?
Do you need that information for every attendee?
What kind of layouts do you want? Monthly, Weekly, list, grid, category, etc?

5. The Events Calendar
• By Modern Tribe - theeventscalendar.com
• Free and Pro Version

6. The Events Calendar
• Additional Addons: Event Tickets (Free and Plus), EventBrite, Filter Bar, Community
Events, Event Aggregator
• It has a large extension library for customization and a documentation library for
event more customization. You can override templates by adding files to your theme
folder. There are also some free extensions in the WordPress Repository.
• Love-hate relationship with this plugin. It works great 99% of the time. When it fails it
can be epic.
• Currently my default plugin for events

7. The Events Calendar
• Well documented.
• Recurring settings are robust (Pro Version).
• Works on Multisite ($349 more).
• It can show only one instance of a series of
upcoming events.
• Integrates with Beaver Themer.
• Event Tickets Plus addon integrates with
Woocommerce.
• Requires Pro version for recurring
events.
• Layouts are dated looking (new update
coming).
• Glacial support.
• Pricey for lots of sites but does have an
unlimited plan.
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8. Modern Events
Calendar
• By Webnus -webnus.net/modern-events-calendar/
• Lite and Full Version - just had a major price increase

9. Modern Events
Calendar• Additional Addons: Woocommerce, Elementor Shortcode Builder, Elementor Form
Builder, Elementor Single Builder, Elementor Bundle, Event API, Multisite Sync, User
Dashboard
• One of my favorite new calendar plugins. Beautiful layout options even on the free
version. Can also show a single instance of recurring events on some layouts. Best
Demo site to show all the options
• Works on Multisite
• My second favorite event plugin

10. Modern Events
Calendar
• Most layouts options of all the plugins.
• Beautiful modern appearance
• It can show only one instance of a series of
upcoming events
• Decent support.
• Lifetime purchase.
• Integrates with Woocommerce and
Elementor
• It can be pricey for lots of sites. No
unlimited plan
• Shows a single instance of recurring
events on some layouts but not all
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11. All In One Events
Calendar
• By Time.ly - time.ly
• Free, Extended, and Hosted Calendars

12. All In One Events
Calendar
• Additional Addons: Extended Views for Photo and Stream layouts
• Robust recurring events in the free version.
• Pushing their hosted calendar solution
• Import Feeds
• Recently changed pricing structure to yearly from Lifetime.
• New activation system doesn’t work on Multisite

13. All In One Events
Calendar
• Well documented.
• Recurring settings are robust in free
version.
• Has shortcode options
• Imports Feeds
• Difficult to create custom layouts
• Layouts are dated looking
• Very Slow support.
• Shows all instances of events
• Not for Multisite
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14. • By myeventon.com
• AddOns: A Huge List including Tickets, Bookings, layouts, and more
EventOn Calendar

15. EventOn Calendar
• Lots of features in base version
• Additional Addons: Sold Separately and in Bundles.
• Modern layout options
• Priced per site

16. EventOn Calendar
• Well documented.
• Recurring events
• Add-ons galore.
• Appears to have good support
• Has shortcode options
• Easy to copy events
• Paypal in base version
• Priced per site
• Not for Multisite
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17. • By Sandhills
Development, LLC
• Free “Lite” Version
and Paid Version
Sugar Calendar

18. Sugar Calendar
• Simple Event Management
• Beautiful Admin Interface
• Ajax Enabled Calendar View
• Events Custom Post Type
• Event Calendar Custom Taxonomy
• Simple Event Configuration
• Easily Set Event Dates
• Easily Set Event Start and End Time
• Events Archive, Listed by Start Date
• Widgets for displaying calendars
and event filters
• Shortcode for showing the calendar
of events
• Large and small calendar views

19. Sugar Calendar
• Well documented.
• Unlimited Site pricing not bad
• Appears to have good support
• Recurring events on paid version only
• Not many add ons
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