Event Registration Plugin For Wordpress

Event Registration Plugin For WordPress

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Today I tried 2 event registration plugin for WordPress, Events Manager and Eventr. Here is a quick review of the two.

Events Manager
Installation is straight forward as what WordPress plugins always are. There is categories for your event. Interesting features are obvious use of ajax in storing location information, as well as Google Map integration. Use of WordPress shortcode makes it very flexible, however require slightly more competence than what most bloggers have.
Good: Notification email to event manager and attendee.
Bad: Space available for event cannot be more than 127. When I try to put in 1000 seats available, it automatically revert to 127.

Eventr WordPress Plugin for Event Registration
Eventr seems to be easier and simpler among the two. You just need to submit the event information, and paste a certain text-string generated within your post.
Good: You can put the registration form anywhere within your posts.
Bad: When I register for an event, it flash some error message in a while before redirecting back to the post. I can’t ascertain what error message is that, but apparently the registration is recorded in the attendee list. There is no notification email.

UPDATE: Davide – the developer of Events Manager plugin – dropped-by and told us the fix for the 127 max seat issue.

For now what you can do is manually change the field type in via phpmyadmin, setting it to int or smallint.

November 6th, 2009 Posted by Fernando Hal in Software & Tools |

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6 Responses to “Event Registration Plugin For WordPress”

Davide says:

November 7, 2009 at 4:20 am

Hey,
this is Davide, the guy behnh Events Manager. The 127 limitation is my fault (my bad!), I am aware of the issue, I naïvely used a tinyint the in the table creation function. Presently I am quite busy with agency job, but I am going ot fix this issue in the future releases. For now what you can do is manually change the field type in via phpmyadmin, setting oit to int or smallint.
Cheers,
Davide
Fernando Hal says:

November 8, 2009 at 12:38 pm

Hi Davide,
A pleasure to welcome you here.
I’ll try the suggestion.
Thanks for sharing this with us, and many thanks for the great plugin.
Seth says:

January 29, 2010 at 4:35 pm

Have you tried the Advanced Events Registration by Seth Shoultes? It is an Out-of-the-box Events Registration system integrated with PayPal IPN for your WordPress blog/website.

http://shoultes.net/wordpress-events-registration-with-paypal-ipn/
Fernando Hal says:

February 1, 2010 at 1:06 am

Thanks Seth. The plugin looks good. But I do not need to use event registration anymore now. Probably will try it when need to organize some events again.
Nora says:

June 14, 2010 at 5:21 am

Hey Fernando, you could just use one of the online event registration softwares out there like amiando and integreate it into wordpress via iframe
Fernando Hal says:

June 14, 2010 at 8:45 am

Yes, that is a possible solution, but the extra work needed is a sure turn-off. Besides, i understand that iframe isn’t exactly a good design decision.