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the events calendar: Powering over 1 billion events

Create, promote, and
sell out events online.

The Events Calendar plugin gives you everything you need to build, manage, and grow events on WordPress, without sending your audience somewhere else to complete registration.

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A monthly calendar on a website created with The Events Calendar shows scheduled events, previews of venues, attendees, an event ticket purchase screen, and a seating map.

800K

Active plugin installs

1B+

Events created

4.8

Trustpilot score

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Pricing & Plans

the events calendar Pricing

One simple price.
A complete event calendar platform.

Renews annually, cancel any time.

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For independent organizers

Essentials

$259 /year

Get Essentials

Launch and list your first event today.

  • Unlimited events, tickets, RSVPs
  • Seven different calendar views
  • Event filters
  • Ticket sales (Stripe, PayPal, Square)
  • Real-time ticket availability
  • Recurring events & series
  • Virtual & hybrid events
  • Attendee management & reports
  • Fees & coupons
  • Community event submissions

Pro

$399 /year

Get Pro

Sell tickets, promote events, keep attendees coming back.

  • Everything in Essentials
  • No ticket commission fees
  • WooCommerce ticket sales integration
  • Split revenue with community organizers
  • Custom attendee registration forms
  • Ticket QR codes & tailored check-in app
  • Attendee management & reports
  • Event importing (200 imports/day)

For organizers running at scale

Elite

$599 /year

Get Elite

Full control over promotion, attendance, and experience. Built for high-volume events.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Custom seating map builder
  • Assigned seating & seat selection
  • Hold timers & seat reservations
  • Email promotion campaigns
  • Scheduled & triggered emails
  • Audience segmentation
  • Campaign analytics & attribution
Essential event tools

Make your events calendar look and work the way you want.

Your calendar should look like yours, not a generic embed. Choose from seven views, make it fully responsive, and customize it to match your site’s design, all without touching a line of code.

Seven calendar views for any content type

Display events the way your audience actually browses them: month, list, week, day, photo, map, or summary. 

A user interacts with a WordPress website's calendar, switching between views of month, day, week, and more.

Help attendees find events faster

Attendees can filter by category, tag, or custom fields like venue, price, and city. You define which filters are available and how they display.

A series of website buttons with The Events Calendar where a user can filter by options like ticket cost, city, accessible events, recurring events, venues, day of the week, and distance.

Set recurring events once, manage them individually

Create an event series as a pattern, like “monthly on the first Tuesday,” or choose custom dates manually. Edit each event one individually or manage all of them at once.

A section of a website showing a recurring event that happens on Tuesdays.

Let your community add events

Grow your calendar without managing every entry yourself. Open event submissions to your community. You approve the events, they appear on your calendar.

Interface where a user is dragging and dropping events between days of the week in the WordPress editor.
Advanced ticketing options | Pro & Elite plans

Sell tickets and manage attendees

Sell free and paid tickets directly from your WordPress site. No third-party checkout, no commission on sales, and no sending your attendees somewhere else to complete registration. Available on the Pro and Elite plans.

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Sell unlimited tickets, keep 100% of your revenue

Sell unlimited tickets on your WordPress site. Keep 100% of revenue with no per-ticket fees.

Check in attendees from any device

Scan attendees with a QR code on their phone or printed ticket. Check-in works offline too, so a spotty venue connection doesn’t slow down your door.

Collect exactly the registration data you need

Create custom attendee registration forms to include specific details like dietary restrictions, t-shirt sizes, and session preferences.

Registration forms built with The Events Calendar plugin show fields to put in names, email addresses, experience level, interests, t shirt size, and accessibility requests.

Sell tickets inside your existing checkout with WooCommerce

Sell event tickets alongside merchandise, products, and add-ons, all in one WooCommerce cart. Coupons and bundle discounts apply automatically. 

A shopping cart page shows subtotal, shipping cost, and discounts applied for a soon-to-be customer.
Multi-venue tools

Run events across multiple venues

Scale from a single venue to dozens. Manage them from one platform, without rebuilding your setup.

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Unlimited venues, no complexity penalty

Build and manage as many venues and events as you need. The Events Calendar doesn’t get harder to use as you grow.

A chef hosts a cooking school event, students in aprons watch her chop vegetables, one is taking notes.
A theater with two individuals on stage, facing each other in chairs and talking, an audience watches.
A yoga class with several attendees sitting in Sukhasana pose.
A concert, the band plays electric guitars and drums, the standing audience has their hands raised and some are filming with their mobile phones.

Create interactive seating maps per venue

Create interactive seating maps with custom seat types, sections, and amenities to match your venues.

A grid-based seating map layout built with The Events Calendar plugin, a user selects a seat and chooses between Main Floor and Children's Admission.

Split ticket sales revenue automatically

Configure ticket sales revenue splits so partners and co-hosts earn their share automatically. No manual calculations, no awkward conversations.

An events organizer sets venue fees in the WordPress editor, with fixed amount fee type, ten dollar amount, and apply fee to venue.
Email marketing | Elite plan

Drive event attendance with
email that fires itself

Send the right message at the right time, triggered automatically by what your attendees actually do. Available on the Elite plan.

Automate event lifecycle emails

Emails go out when events are published, updated, or approaching. Nothing falls through the cracks because there’s nothing to manually remember.

A list of three automated emails to promote an event, asking if the recipient is excited for the meetup, last minute venue change, and that was fun let's do it again, the first two are sent, the last one is scheduled.

Send the right message to each audience segment

VIP attendees get different messaging than general admission. Segment by ticket type, past attendance, or purchase history.

Three email campaigns for different attendee types, meetups, season passes, and attendee lists.

Track what’s actually driving ticket sales

Monitor open rates, clicks, and conversions in one place. Know which campaigns are working before your next event, not after.

An automated event email shows 36% opens, 29% clicks, 54% conversions.

Build awareness with branded templates

Customize templates to match your brand. No generic platform branding in every email you send to your own audience.

Examples of email templates built with The Events Calendar that contain tickets, the emails have brand names and customizations.

the events calendar: Full Feature List

Find the right plan for you.

for independent organizers

Essentials

$259 / year

Get Essentials

Most popular

Pro

$399 / year

Get Pro

For organizers running at scale

Elite

$599 / year

Get Elite

The Events Calendar Pro (recurring events, views, custom fields)

Event Aggregator

100 imports/day

200 imports/day

300 imports/day

Community Submissions (user-submitted events)

Recurring Events & Series

Filter Bar

Multiple Calendar Views (month, list, day, week, photo, map)

Shortcodes & Blocks

Eventbrite Tickets Integration

Event Tickets Plus (full ticketing)

0% Ticket Commission

Community Sold Tickets (revenue splitting)

Event Schedule Manager

QR Code Check-in

Custom Registration Fields

WooCommerce Ticket Integration

Attendee Management & Reports

Promoter (email marketing for events)

Seating Builder (interactive seating maps)

VIP Seat Types

The Events Calendar plugin FAQ

Questions, answered.

Still have questions? Check out our FAQs below for answers to common questions.

The Events Calendar is a WordPress event management plugin that helps site owners create, promote, and sell tickets for online and in-person events. First launched in 2009, The Events Calendar is the most installed event management plugin in the WordPress ecosystem – with 800,000+ active installs powering over 1 billion events. As part of Liquid Web and Nexcess, The Events Calendar is backed by decades of experience building tools for serious web professionals.

The Events Calendar is built for businesses, venues, agencies, universities, and organizations that need a reliable way to manage events on WordPress. Whether you’re running a community calendar, a conference series, or a full ticketing operation, The Events Calendar gives you the flexibility and control to grow without switching platforms.

Yes. The Events Calendar is built to scale with your operation—from a handful of local events to a high-traffic ticketing platform—especially when paired with managed hosting for WordPress from Liquid Web. It handles recurring events, high-demand ticket sales, large attendee volumes, and traffic spikes without requiring you to rebuild or switch platforms.

Yes. The Events Calendar includes built-in ticketing tools that let you sell unlimited free and paid tickets directly from WordPress or WooCommerce. No third-party checkout, no redirect to external platforms, and no commission on sales. You keep full ownership of your attendee data, ticket revenue, and customer relationships.

Yes. The Events Calendar Essentials includes flexible recurring event management—daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or any custom interval. You can manage each occurrence individually, set exceptions, and let attendees register for a single event or an entire series.

Yes. The Events Calendar Elite includes a drag-and-drop seating map builder that lets you define sections, general admission zones, and assigned seating—with integrated ticket pricing per section and QR code check-in sync. All without leaving WordPress.

Yes. The Events Calendar is built for agencies and freelancers managing event sites for clients. Agencies and web professionals can deploy The Events Calendar with zero hosting lock-in and no proprietary dependencies.

Unlike third-party ticketing platforms like Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, or RSVPify, The Events Calendar keeps everything directly on your site: your attendee data, your ticket revenue, and your brand. You avoid sending your audience to someone else’s checkout, pay zero commission fees on ticket sales, and eliminate platform dependencies that restrict your event data.