Business owners and non-profit organizations have shifted to arranging meetings as well as professional and social events within a virtual environment.

Online events offer you a captive audience. Attendees are people who want to be there. They want to learn about your cause, your product, and/or your information. They absolutely want a part of what you’re offering.

Advantages of setting up virtual events, as opposed to a traditional offline event include:

• More Cost-Effective
• Broader Audience Reach
• Promotes Stronger Connections
• Boosts Connections into Sales
• Time-Saving with More Flexibility
• Ability to Collect Feedback in Real-Time

Popular WordPress Event Plugins to Consider

WP Event Manager

Requires WordPress version 4.1 or higher.

Plugin Download Page

The free version of this plugin works just fine for most personal and small business websites, but optional premium add-ons are available for advanced or complex functionality.

Seamless Zoom integration is available as an add-on.

Free version features include:

• Compatible with all WordPress themes.
• Fully Responsive with Cross Browser support.
• Bootstrap compatible.
• SEO Friendly and Compatible with SEO plugins.
• Multilingual Supported Translation.    
• Setup wizard for easy creation of pages and shortcodes.
• Preview button allows users to see an exact copy of the submitted event before it goes live.
• Listings can be associated with an email or website address, allowing for easy event registration.
• Events and view events can be assigned by location.
• Events can be organized in categories and sub-categories. 
• Easily create custom event fields.
• Widgets for recent, upcoming and featured events.
• Template tags and shortcodes for outputting events in various formats to your pages and posts.

Demo | Add-Ons | Help Center

Events Manager

Requires WordPress version 5.2 or higher.

Plugin Download Page

Free and Pro versions of this Plugin are available. Compare both versions here

Free version features include:

• Easy event registration (single day with start/end times).
• Recurring and multi-day event registration.
• Bookings Management, including approval/rejections.
• Multiple Tickets.
• Multiple Location Types

- Physical Locations
- Online Events (URLs)
- Zoom Webinars/Meetings Integration

• BuddyPress Support

- Submit Events
- Group Events
- Personal Events
- Activity Stream

• Guest/Member Event submissions.
• Event categories.
• Create custom event attributes.
• Widgets for Events, Locations and Calendars.
• Control of how every aspect of your events are shown on your site, easily modify templates from the settings pages and template files.
• Compatible with SEO plugins.
• Template tags and shortcodes for use in posts and pages.

Demo | Tutorials

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