Event plugins divide by what you’re actually selling: a calendar people browse (The Events Calendar Pro, EventON, Modern Events Calendar Pro), tickets you sell (Event Espresso Premium, WP Event Manager Pro), or appointments you book (Amelia Premium). The boundary matters because a calendar-first plugin bolted onto ticketing usually serves neither well. Figure out which of the three jobs is yours, then use our comparisons to pick within it.

LatePoint is one of the smoothest appointment booking plugins on WordPress — the free core handles agents, services, calendars, and…

WP Booking Calendar is the oldest booking plugin in the WordPress directory — first released in 2009, and the original…

When booking is a product rather than a side feature, the WooCommerce-native answer is WooCommerce Bookings: sell time or date-based…

Car rental sites need real fleet management — cars as bookable units with locations, hourly and daily rates, damage deposits,…

Running a hotel, B&B, or vacation rental on WordPress usually means bolting a booking widget onto a website and managing…

Scheduling software for service businesses has two very different failure modes: the lightweight calendar plugin that can’t express employees, buffers,…

If your business sells time — salon chairs, consultancy hours, therapy sessions, training slots — a booking system that actually…

If you run events where people register and pay — workshops, conferences, classes, fundraisers — you need more than a…

EventON is the calendar-first choice: the month grid IS the interface, visitors click a date to see what’s happening, then…

Modern Events Calendar Pro is the events plugin for sites where events are a community activity, not just a calendar:…

The Events Calendar Pro is the events platform for sites where publishing matters as much as managing: multiple calendar views…

WP Event Manager is the event-listing platform play: a modular system where free core handles event listings, and official add-ons…