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The Events Calendar Shortcode & Block
The perfect sidekick for your busy event schedule.
HealthyDeclining
82/100
This plugin adds useful display options to the core events plugin. It is stable and reliable.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
97 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-19%
Declining
85 → 69 installs/day
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 · -19% in the last year
85/day a year ago→69/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayThe Events Calendar Shortcode & Block is a well-regarded companion plugin for The Events Calendar that users find genuinely useful and stable, with no notable recurring complaints surfaced in these reviews.
What people like
- +Stable and reliable over long-term use with no reported breakage×3
- +Adds shortcode/block display flexibility that is missing from The Events Calendar core×3
- +Responsive and helpful developer×2
- +Works well for RSVP and event scheduling use cases×2
- +Compatible with various themes and page builders
Common complaints
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.64★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 97 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-02-13★★★★★Easy to Use!allegraportage
- 2026-02-12★★★★★Absolutely Stunning!ideahost
- 2026-02-09★★★★★Useful and valuable!passas
- 2026-02-05★★★★★A great simple event trackerfmickey
- 2026-01-06★★★★★Works as it shouldeworldlinx
- 2025-11-20★★★★★Responsive Developervmgenie
- 2025-11-17★★★★★Great pluginjayjayel
- 2025-10-14★★★★★Works great and reliablyspringthistle
- 2025-09-04★★★★★Thank youhelenmyers007
- 2025-05-15★★★★★Work great, exactly what we needed.rossisbg1-shot
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.
67
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
59
Prior 7-day baseline
51
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
132
Mean release-day peak (30d)
72
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+13.6%
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.
14%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.23
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
84%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+25%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.66 → 4.64★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered