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Events Maker by dFactory
Fully featured event management system including recurring events, locations management, full calendar, iCal feed/files, google maps and more.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.7★ from 33
- Active installs
- 1k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 30 Jan 2017
- Added
- Sep 2013
- Requires WP
- 4.0
- Tested up to
- WP 4.7.35
- Downloads
- 83,053
Our analysis
AI-assistedEvents Maker by dFactory is a WordPress plugin designed for managing events. It supports features such as recurring events, location management, and a responsive calendar for users to browse events by month, week, or day. The plugin also includes automatic iCal feed generation for easy integration with calendar applications and geolocation support for event locations using Google Maps.
This plugin is suitable for anyone looking to organise events on their WordPress site, particularly those who need multilingual support through WPML or Polylang. It can be beneficial for various types of sites, including restaurants, venues, and community organisations.
Best for: This plugin suits WordPress sites that need to manage events, particularly in a multilingual context.
What it does well
- ✓Supports recurring events and location management
- ✓Responsive events calendar for user browsing
- ✓Automatic iCal feed generation for calendar apps
- ✓Geolocation support for easy location setup
- ✓Compatible with WPML and Polylang for multilingual sites
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in January 2017, may not be compatible with newer WordPress versions
- •Limited information on additional features or support
Verdict
Events Maker offers a range of features for event management, but its age may affect compatibility and support. It is a practical choice for specific use cases.
From the developer
dFactory's own description of Events Maker by dFactory, lightly tidied.
Events Maker is a fully featured event management plugin from dFactory including recurring events, locations management, full calendar, iCal feed/files support and google maps integration.
Powerful, flexible events management
Events Maker allows you to easily create and manage your events. But at the same time is powerful and very flexible in customization.
Responsive Events Calendar
Users can browse for your events in a beautiful, responsive events calendar and display all events for the selected month, week od day.
Automatic iCal support
Events Maker automatically generates an iCal feed/files for all your events, categories, tags, locations, organizers and single events which can be used to import event information into calendar applications such as Google Calendar, iCalendar, Outlook, ThunderBird, etc.
Locations with Google Maps
Support for event locations and Google Maps has never been easier. Thanks to the geolocation you won’t need to mess around with latitude and longitude.
WPML & Polylang compatibility
Events Maker allows you to create and manage events, categories, locations and organizers in different languages using WPML or Polylang. So now, if you build a multilingual website, you won’t have to worry about the multilingual capability anymore.
Recommended Community Themes:
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Your favorite theme’s not listed here? Ask the theme developer to make it work with Events Maker – it’s quite simple.
Features include:
Tagged as
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WPML & Polylang
audience
Developers
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