6 Must Have WordPress Event Plugins To Unlock Full Event Website Potential

Choosing a correct event and conference WordPress theme helps you to reduce your work and also attracts the visitor into your event website. To make the user experience easier, choosing right WordPress event plugins is important.

When you come to a event website there are lot of functionalities needed. You are gathering people together so your event website should also able to manage all the users. The WordPress event plugin should be interactive sometimes it should also enables the user to submit their own data.

During the development of Livesay WordPress event and Conference website theme we have listed many WordPress event plugins to make the theme very effective. We found some of the WordPress event plugins are very effective, those plugins are listed here.

Must Have WordPress Event Plugins

WordPress Event Calendar Plugin
Event Manager
Event Tickets
Community Events
Social Warfare Plugin
Site Performance Improvement Plugins

WordPress Event Calendar Plugin

The first thing came up when you make a event and conference theme is Event calendar plugin. Staying organized helps us to be more productive. There are numerous event calendar plugin out there to help you organize and display your events.

Event calendar plugin is the most preferred calendar plugin by WordPress users, it is easy to use and being a developer it will be easy to customize with your theme. The reason for this the plugin is REST API friendly. You can also integrate other plugins with this plugin easily.

This plugin also provides pro version starting at $89 for advanced version. There are number of free and premium addons available to improve its functionality.

Features

• Rapidly create events and also show saved venues & organizers
• Display events in a cleaner and interactive way with calendar month view, List view, Day view
• Event search options to help the user easily find the events they want
• Integrate with Google maps to provide navigation to the venue
• Widget for Upcoming events list
• Manage events effectively with Events Taxonomies (Categories & Tags) and is also helpful in event search.
• Integrate with Google Calendar and iCal exporting
• Completely ajaxified for super smooth browsing
• Completely responsive from mobile to tablet to desktop
• Increase your SEO with Microformats
• Multiple stylesheets (Skeleton, Default, Tribe Event Styles) to improve integration

Event Manager

Event manager plugin is another important WordPress event plugin this is a close competitor to Event calendar plugin. This allows you to sell ticket, allow users to submit their event and lot more out of the box. But we chose Event calendar over this. One reason is developer friendly, you will find the reason when you read the complete plugin list.

Saying that let us see the features of the Event manager WordPress event plugin.

Features

• Easy event registration single day and recurring and long event registration
• Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!)
• Manage event easily with features like submit events, group events, personal events and guest/Member Event submissions
• Categorize event for easy event management
• Integrate with Google Maps. Assign event locations and view events by location
• Advanced permissions – restrict user management of events and locations.
• Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars
• iCal and Google calendar supported
• This plugin also provide pro version starting at $75

Event Tickets

Another important functionality in a event website is selling tickets. Tickets are a very crucial part in a event website, when you put a permutation to the possible scenarios there will be a lot of possibilities. In fact the complexity is equal to a e-commerce store.

Another big thing is you have to integrate these ticket with your different events and the event calendar. Luckily we have Event tickets. Event ticket is an addon form Event calendar plugin. It helps you to collects RSVP and manage event registration easily.

Event managers are able to access RSVP information from the admin, allowing them to check in registered attendees when your event begins. Better option right?

Event tickets can also be connect with Eventbrite for more ease of ticket selling and also letting you to take your event to more audience.

In order to sell ticket within your website and integrate this with e-commerce platforms like WooCommerce and Easy digital download you need to get the pro version. The pro version starts at $89 features of the pro version are listed below.

Features

• Sell tickets directly within your event listings
• No ticket fees for site admins or buyers
• Create all tickets from directly within the WordPress admin
• Add multiple tickets to any event, page, or post
• Ticket stock countdown lets customers know how many tickets are left, with a clear Sold Out message once they’re gone
• Set windows of time for when you want given ticket types to be on sale
• Custom attendee registration allows you to collect information from your attendees
• Limit how many tickets of a given type are available, share stock between ticket types, or allow unlimited attendees
• Include QR codes on tickets to expedite your event check-in process
• QR check-in can be configured to work with multiple user roles so staff or volunteers can easily manage attendees

Community Events

When you are planning a event based on a community, there must be an option to let your users add an event by themselves. For example, take WordCamp organized by the users at different area and bringing the community together.

To achieve this you can use WordPress event plugin like Community events. This plugin is also developed by Event Calendar plugin.

Features

• Users can fill out a simple form with event title, description, date and time to their event. For this no admin access required. You can make the form with the form elements
• You can choose whether events can be automatically published or held as a draft for moderation.
• Users can input their event title, description, date, time, and more using our standard event fields
• Registered user settings helps you to take control of who can create an event
• Choose whether users can edit or delete their events after submission
• Restrict events to existing venues and organizers or allow users to add their own
• Add reCAPTCHA to your event submission form to prevent spam from anonymous submissions
• Create alerts to receive an email notification when new events are submitted
• You can use Community Tickets addon to let the users sell the ticket for the community event they organize

So simply you can add, organize customize the functionality needed for your WordPress event website easily with these Event Calendar addons.

The reason we choose this for our Live say theme is we need more user friendly WordPress event plugin with lot of options and customizable options as a developer. As a user you also must feel easy to customize in the future.

Other Important WordPress Event Plugins

Apart from the core functionality you must also need other important plugins to take your event to more audience and also to improve your site performance.

Social Warfare Plugin

One important thing in a WordPress event website is being social. There must be an option to let the users to share the events they like. Social Warfare is one of the best social sharing plugin here for event website becomes one of the must WordPress event plugin.

There is both free and pro version for this plugin. It gives plenty of options to customize your social sharing options. You also get the option to use custom Tweet option like below

Apart from the custom tweet you can also add quotes design, it helps to highlight your keynote speaker’s famous words.

Site Performance Improvement Plugin

Being an event website it should be able to handle thousands of users at a time. It must be snappier and responsive also.

To improve a site performance includes lots of factors. One simple way is to add a cache plugin. W3 total cache will be a better option for the cache plugin.

When you choose an responsive WordPress event theme there isn’t much need for separate mobile friendly plugins. But in case if you want to make your mobile website far more better take a look at the plugins listed in the post recommended below.

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