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WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce
An ambitious event suite that frequently crashes your site during updates.
DecliningPoor rating
41/100
Abundant features cannot compensate for frequent crashes and unresponsive support.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.0★
246 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-45%
Declining fast
299 → 165 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 2.82★
- MINORdownloads down 45% vs a year ago
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 fast · -45% in the last year
299/day a year ago→165/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Event Manager is a feature-rich events plugin with an appealing layout, but it has a deeply troubled reputation for chronic code instability, breaking updates, and poor support that makes it a risky choice for production sites.
What people like
- +Plugin concept and layout are considered modern and feature-rich×2
- +Some users report positive, timely support experiences×2
Common complaints
- −Updates frequently break sites, including fatal PHP errors and complete site outages, with no backward compatibility×6
- −Support is slow, unhelpful, or unresponsive — tickets go unanswered for weeks×8
- −Breaking changes to function names and templates are pushed without changelog notice, forcing users to redo customizations×2
- −Serious functional bugs reported: calendar failing to load, ticket prices resetting to £0, seat selection errors, and events not expiring as configured×3
- −Refund policy is rigid or inconsistently applied — users report promised refunds never materializing or being reversed×2
- −Plugin does not follow established coding standards and lacks sufficient hooks, making safe customization difficult×2
- −Support demands invasive access (FTP credentials) to investigate bugs rather than offering alternative diagnostics
- −Pre-sales support described as dismissive and unprofessional, combined with a no-refund policy that leaves buyers with no recourse
- −License activation failures reported, with support deflecting blame rather than resolving the issue
Review trustReviews look organic
- 2.82★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.00★
- 18%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 · 246 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-03★★★★★Bad supportjustokaycoding1-shot
- 2026-05-05★★★★★Serious issues and no resolutionyourlondontutor1-shot
- 2026-03-27★★★★★Terrible development practicesanu
- 2026-03-27★★★★★Lots of errors, hard to maintain.eff16
- 2026-03-25★★★★★License problem since 2025.Sauron
- 2026-03-24★★★★★Good idea, but too many bugs.eva55
- 2026-03-06★★★★★Expensive stack, unstable system, and support that cannot resolve core issuesstanislavmitov
- 2026-02-27★★★★★Code Issues and No Support = Disastercustomk9
- 2025-10-01★★★★★Great Supportcharbel90
- 2025-09-23★★★★★Support is getting betterfriswebdesign
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to WP Event Manager
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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.
193
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
165
Prior 7-day baseline
133
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
333
Mean release-day peak (30d)
333
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+17.0%
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.
10%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.14
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
39%
5★ share in analyzed sample
18%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+14%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
2.88 → 2.82★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered