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GatherPress
Build events, together. Open source event tools for the communities that run on WordPress.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 1
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 16 Aug 2026
- Added
- Jun 2024
- Requires WP
- 7.0
- Tested up to
- WP 7.1
- Requires PHP
- 8.1
- Downloads
- 7,922
Our analysis
AI-assistedGatherPress is a WordPress plugin designed for managing events, allowing you to publish details such as date, time, and venue. It enables you to collect RSVPs, including anonymous listings, and allows attendees to bring guests without requiring an account. The plugin is suitable for meetup organizers, user groups, and conference teams who want to manage events directly from their WordPress site.
The plugin supports in-person and online events, integrates maps for physical venues, and offers email communication with attendees. It is built with the WordPress community in mind and is free and open source, encouraging contributions from users.
Best for: This plugin suits event organizers looking to manage gatherings on their WordPress site.
What it does well
- ✓Free and open source
- ✓Allows anonymous RSVPs
- ✓Supports in-person and online events
- ✓Built for event organizers
- ✓Multisite ready and fully translatable
Where it falls short
- •Limited feature details provided
- •No pricing information available
Verdict
GatherPress provides essential tools for event management within WordPress, making it a practical choice for those who regularly organise events.
From the developer
GatherPress's own description of GatherPress, lightly tidied.
Running a meetup, a user group, a conference, or a class? GatherPress gives you what you need to publish events, collect RSVPs, and keep everyone in the loop, all from your own WordPress site.
Your events live on your site. You own the data, you control how it looks, and you keep the relationship with the people who show up.
GatherPress is built by the WordPress community for the people who organize it: meetup organizers, WordCamp teams, user groups, and anyone else who gets people together in a room. It is free, open source, and shaped by the people using it every day.
What you can do
- Publish events with the date, time, venue, and everything people need to know
- Collect RSVPs, with anonymous listing for attendees who would rather not be named
- Let people RSVP without an account, so nobody bounces off a signup wall
- Let attendees bring guests
- Email everyone who is coming, or everyone who is not, without leaving WordPress
- Run events in person, online, or both, with maps for physical venues
- Build and arrange it all in the block editor
- Multisite ready and fully translatable
Try it before you install
Hit the Live Preview button on this page to open a working demo in your browser. No signup, no setup, and real data to click around in.
Prefer to watch first? There is a short intro demo.
Join our community
GatherPress is built in the open, and contributions are always welcome, whether that is code, translations, documentation, or just telling us what broke.
External Services
This plugin connects to external services to provide address autocomplete, geocoding, and map tiles for venues. Each service has its own filter so you can point at a self-hosted alternative or disable the feature.
Photon geocoding (photon.komoot.io)
Used to resolve venue addresses into latitude/longitude coordinates and to power the address autocomplete dropdown while editing a venue. The plugin proxies these requests server-side: your WordPress site sends the search query string and a User-Agent identifying the site (plugin version, WordPress version, site home URL) to the Photon API. Responses are cached on your site for 15 minutes.
- Photon homepage / terms: https://photon.komoot.io/
- Komoot privacy policy: https://www.komoot.com/privacy
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