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Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!
Powerful event management that hits a wall when you pay for Pro.
HealthyDecliningPoor rating
61/100
The free version is excellent but the Pro tier suffers from broken licenses and poor support.
Active installs
~122,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 70k+
Rating
4.2★
545 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-20%
Declining
321 → 255 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.79★
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -20% in the last year
321/day a year ago→255/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayEvents Manager is a highly capable and flexible events plugin with a strong free version, but the Pro upgrade experience is marred by serious support failures, licensing issues, and misleading documentation.
What people like
- +Extremely feature-rich and flexible, covering a wide range of event management needs×5
- +Free version is considered generous and sufficient for clubs or small organizations×3
- +Highly customizable without requiring developer skills, given willingness to explore available resources×2
- +Support is noted as responsive for free users
- +Performs well without slowing down the backend, unlike some competing plugins
Common complaints
- −Version 7.3 crashed sites for multiple users (since 7.3)×2
- −Pro support is largely unresponsive — users report weeks or months of silence on forums and via email×4
- −Pro license activation fails for some users, rendering the paid product completely unusable×2
- −Documentation for Pro is inaccurate or misleading — at least one user was told a feature required a higher-tier plan (Pro+) despite documentation stating it was included in Pro, with no refund offered
- −New Gutenberg blocks have significant limitations: no custom scope, no tag/search filter, forced heading output, and format not inherited from shortcode settings
- −Publishing events broken after upgrade — events save only as drafts
- −Plugin leaves hundreds of orphaned database tables after uninstallation
- −Gutenberg/block editor integration is limited; most design adjustments require custom CSS and there is no modern block with sidebar formatting options
- −No ability to exclude specific dates from recurring events
- −Plugin is complex and some features are difficult to find; documentation does not cover everything×2
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.79★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 11%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 545 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-01★★★★★Don't Upgrade to 7.3.1a2withkids
- 2026-05-28★★★★★Excellent, but v7.3 crashed the siteMMZx
- 2026-05-28★★★★★Great but crashed my site.wannabewindsurfer
- 2026-04-11★★★★★Very customizable – Pro support can feel lacking.willpom
- 2026-04-07★★★★★Paid for license but it was not workinggeekery
- 2026-03-18★★★★★Calendar month picker breaks with non-English locales (fix inside)devhop
- 2026-03-03★★★★★Free, feature-rich & costomizableschrotie1-shot
- 2026-02-23★★★★★Rating is for PRO version only!BigBlueMan
- 2026-02-18★★★★★Be wary, documentation is not accurateRbkhrlstn
- 2026-01-28★★★★★Simply workswizard98x
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
252
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
258
Prior 7-day baseline
264
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
13,438
Mean release-day peak (30d)
15,907
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-2.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
12%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.81
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
59%
5★ share in analyzed sample
11%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+18%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.83 → 3.79★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered