WordPress Events Plugins

The Events category includes 438 WordPress.org plugins, covering several related areas such as calendars, ticketing and booking. Install counts are concentrated in a small number of plugins, while recent update activity varies across the category.

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Calendar, ticketing and booking overlap

Events plugins span several connected areas rather than one narrow use case. The calendar tag appears on 169 plugins, while tickets appears on 42 and booking on 37.

The schedule tag covers 27 plugins, adding another area of overlap within the category.

Install counts cluster below the category leader

The Events Calendar has substantially more active installs than the other listed plugins.

  • The Events Calendar: 600,000 active installs, making it one of the most installed plugins in this category.
  • Events Manager: 60,000 active installs.
  • Other listed plugins: Install counts range from 8,000 to 50,000; only one category plugin has at least 100,000 installs, and 11 have at least 10,000.

Ratings and update dates vary across established plugins

The listed plugins have rating summaries from poor to excellent, alongside different review counts.

  • Good ratings: The Events Calendar and Events Manager are rated good, with many reviews; WP Event Manager is rated good with a moderate number.
  • Excellent ratings: Event Organiser, ICS Calendar, Eventin, Events Widgets For Elementor And The Events Calend, Sugar Calendar, The Events Calendar Shortcode & Block, and VS Event List have excellent summaries, with review counts ranging from few to moderate.
  • Other ratings: Simple Calendar is rated mixed with a moderate number of reviews, while WP Events Manager is rated poor with few reviews.
  • Updated this month: Most listed plugins were updated this month. WP Events Manager, The Events Calendar Shortcode & Block, and VS Event List were updated two months ago.

A large, fragmented category with uneven recent maintenance

The 438-plugin category has a clear gap between its leader and the broader field: one plugin reaches 100,000 or more active installs, while 11 reach 10,000 or more.

That distribution points to concentrated reach among the highest-install plugins, with many smaller options in the category. 58% of plugins were updated within the last year, so recent maintenance is not uniform across the full category.