1. WordPress Events Calendar Plug-ins
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WordPress Events Calendar Plug-ins

2. Lots and lots (and lots) of Options
There’s no right or wrong here. It all depends on what you want to do and what your plans are. Isn’t that always the way?
Rather than an exhaustive survey (we’d be here all night!), we’ll take a peek at handful of plugins so you can get an idea of what different types can do and how they function as well as Pros and Cons I’ve included a link to the developer’s site and demo when available.

3. Disclaimer
I don’t endorse any of these plugins particularly. I’ve used some more extensively than others so have a bit more information about them. As we know, familiarity breeds contempt. So….

4. All-in-One-Event Calendar http://time.ly/
Comes with a ton of functionality built in
Unlimited Events
Recurring Events
Images
Locations/Maps
Filtering by Category or Tag
Theme Options
Calendar View Themes
Multiple Views

5. All-in-One Pros Cons Can use a Google Cal feed.
Easy to add events to Google Cal and pull in the feed
Uses shortcodes
Can pull in multiple feeds
Each event becomes a post - making each event searchable
Can also create events within the plugin itself as a post
Can create recurring events within a post
Easy to use widgets
Cons
Not a lot of cons here - especially for a free plug-in. There are a number of add-ons, to include:
More detailing on the venue
More views
Ticketing for Events
Front end submissions for subscribers - if not using a Google Cal feed
Support

6. Modern Tribe
Demo: Modern Tribe:
This too is a really good out-of-the-box plugin with a ton of functionality built-in
Unlimited Events
Recurring Events
Images
Locations/Maps
Filtering by Category or Tag
Multiple stylesheets
Multiple Views
Responsive
And more!

7. Modern Tribe
Pros
Each event becomes a post - making each event searchable
Can also create events within the plugin itself as a post
Can create recurring events within a post
Easy to use widget for sidebar
Looks good
Cons
Unable to use a Google Cal feed - or any other feed.
No shortcodes
Does take more effort to customize
Add-Ons do add more functionality
More views
Event Ticketing/Ticket Purchases
Filter Bar
Recurring Events
Saved Venus and organizers
Community submissions

8. Events Manager Developer Description
Demo: Website:
Developer Description
Easy event registration (single day with start/end times)
Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration
Bookings Management (including approval/rejections, export CVS, and more!)
Multiple Tickets
Guest/Member Event submissions
Assign event locations and view events by location
Event categories
Easily create custom event attributes (e.g. dress code)
Google Maps
Guest/Member Event submissions
Assign event locations and view events by location
Event categories

9. Events Manager Pros Cons
Each event becomes a post - making each event searchable
Can also create events within the plugin itself as a post
Can create recurring events within a post
Easy to use widget for sidebar
Looks good
Able to use an iCal feed
Shortcodes!
Submissions by members or guests
Widgets
Cons
Does take more effort to customize
Add-Ons add more functionality
PayPal, Authorize.net and Offline Payments
Custom booking forms
Coupon Codes
Faster support via private forums

10. GCal - A Google Calendar Plugin
Developer’s description: Features
Parses Google Calendar feeds to extract events.
Displays events as a list or within a calendar grid.
Events from multiple Google Calendar feeds can be shown in a single list / grid.
Lists and grids can be displayed in posts, pages or within a widget.
Options to change the number of events retrieved, date / time format, cache duration, etc.
Complete customisation of the event information displayed.

11. GCal Pros Cons Uses a Google Cal feed.
Easy to add events to Google Cal and pull in
Uses shortcodes
Can pull in multiple feeds
Cons
A little difficult to configure
The feeds don’t translate into posts (at least I don’t think so!) so not great if you want your event calendar to be found in search

12. As mentioned earlier, there are loads of event calendar plugins - these a tiny fraction of what’s available.
Special note:
If you are considering ANY of these plugins for use with ongoing events such as an exhibitions, think again! Adding an exhibition as a recurring event means it shows up every single day from the start of the show ‘til the end. That’s really not such a terrible thing if it’s only one show, but if you’ve got more than one or you’re consolidating lots or organization’s shows on one calendar, then your calendar looks pretty bad - the calendar becomes cluttered with the exhibitions and it’s hard to see the individual events. One way around this is to have a separate section for Current, Upcoming and Past Exhibitions.
A good example is The Met - they handle it this way:
Events at the Met look like this