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Free Plugin by Stephen Harris v3.12.10

Event Organiser

Create and maintain events, including complex reoccurring patterns, venue management (with Google Maps or OpenStreetMap), calendars and customisable e …

Event Organiser

The facts

Rating
4.6★ from 139
Active installs
20k+
Price
Free
Last updated
28 Jun 2026
Added
Dec 2011
Requires WP
3.8.0
Tested up to
WP 7.0.0
Downloads
1,787,113

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Event Organiser is a WordPress plugin designed for managing events on your website. It allows you to create both one-time and recurring events with complex schedules, and manage venues with Google Maps integration. The plugin provides an intuitive user interface for viewing events in a list or calendar format within the WordPress admin area.

This plugin is suitable for users who want to integrate event management functionality into their WordPress sites, whether for personal use or for businesses that host events. Developers can also benefit from its extensive API and support for custom templates.

Best for: This plugin suits anyone looking to manage events on a WordPress site, including businesses and individual users.

What it does well

  • Creates one-time and recurring events
  • Supports complex scheduling patterns
  • Integrates with Google Maps for venue management
  • Offers widgets for displaying events and calendars
  • Extensive documentation and developer support

Where it falls short

  • Limited information on pricing for extensions
  • No details on specific compatibility with themes or other plugins

Verdict

Event Organiser provides a robust solution for event management within WordPress, though further information on extensions and compatibility would be beneficial.

From the developer

Stephen Harris's own description of Event Organiser, lightly tidied.

Event Organiser adds event management that integrates well with your WordPress site. By using WordPress’ in-built ‘custom post type’, this plug-in allows you to create events that have the same functionality as posts, while adding further features that allow you to manage your events. This includes the possibility of repeating your event according to complex schedules and assign your events to venues. This can all be done through an intuitive user interface, which allows you to view your events in the familiar WordPress list or in a calendar page in the admin area.

User Docs
| Function Reference
| Forums
| Demo
| Booking Add-on

Available Extensions

A full list of available extensions can be found here.

Features

For the user

  • Create one-time events or recurring events.
  • Allows complex recurring patterns for events. You can create events that last an arbitrary time, and repeat over a specified period. Supports complex schedules such as On the third Tuesday of every fourth month or Every month on the 16th.
  • Ability to add or remove specific dates to an event
  • Event functions available which extend the post functions (e.g. the_title(),get_the_author(), the_author()) to output or return event data (the start date-time, the venue etc). For examples of their use see the documentation or the included template files.
  • Create and maintain venues for your events, with Google maps support and a fully-featured content editor.
  • Widgets:
    • Calendar widget – displays a calendar (identical to the standard WordPress Calendar)
    • Event List widget – displays a list of events, with options to specify the number of events, restrict by categories or venues etc.
    • Event Agenda widget
    • (full)Calendar, includes optional category & venue filters.
    • (widget) Calendar
    • Event List (similar to Event List widget)
    • Event Agenda (similar to Event Agenda widget)
    • Venue map
    • Subscribe to event feeds

    For the developer

    • Adds an event custom post type that fits naturally into WordPress and allows for all the functionality of ‘posts’.
    • Respects the template hierarchy. Default templates can be over-ridden by including the appropriately named template files in your theme folder.
    • Plug-in actions and filters are provided to modify the behaviour of the plug-in (hook reference
    • Extensive function API & documentation
    • Javascript actions and filters to modify interaction with the calendars and maps
    • Provide custom templates for shortcodes, widgets and ICAL export
    • Custom metaboxes and meta data support for venues (see tutorial).
    • Minified javascript files are used, with the originals provided for ease of developing
    • Booking add-on available

    Localisation

    A big thank you to those who have provided translations for Event Organiser. If you wish to help out with translating the plug-in, you can do so here.

    • Arabic – Layla, Mohamed Nazir
    • Bulgarian – Parvan Voynov
    • Catalan – jordioniric, marc.antje
    • Chinese – sdsunqian
    • Czech – Jan Kupsa
    • Croatian – Branimir
    • Danish – Intox Studio, Malthe, Morten Lyng
    • Dutch – Ingrid Ekkers, Roel
    • English (Canada) – GhostToast
    • Estonian – Kristjan Roosipuu
    • Finnish – Kari Tolonen, Juhani Marttila
    • French – Remy Perona, Arnaud
    • German – Martin Grether & Henning Matthaei
    • Greek – Vasilis, Panagiotis
    • Hebrew (Israel) – heli
    • Hungarian – Csaba Erdei
    • Icelandic – HrHagedorn
    • Indonesian – Daniel Tampubolon
    • Italian – Emilio Frusciante, Pio Muto, Daniele Piccoli
    • Japanese – ogawa, tkj, takeshi terai, haya.
    • Latvian – Kristaps
    • Lithuaniun – Stephan Siegi
    • Macedonian – Aleksandar
    • Norwegian – Erlend Birkedal
    • Norweign (Bokmål) – DagC
    • Persian (Iran, Islamic Republic of) –
    • Polish – Bartosz Arendt
    • Portuguese (Brazil) – Rafael Wahasugui, rafaelkvidal
    • Portuguese (Portugal) – Emanuel Teixeira
    • Romanian – raduanastasedev
    • Russian – Sergei
    • Slovak – ViRPo
    • Slovenian – Matej
    • Spanish (Spain)- Joseba Sanchez, jagarre, jelena kovacevic, courtesy of WebHostingHub
    • Spanish (Peru) – Pedro Valverde
    • Swedish – Sofia BrÃ¥vander, Urban Norlander
    • Thai – Nibhon, Wuttichai Songprapai
    • Turkish – Gökhan DAMGACI
    • Ukranian – Максим Кобєлєв

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