Complex, powerful, needs too much attention

I’ve looked at all sorts of membership & event plug-ins. I have actually installed and uninstalled this one twice. Installed because it does 90% of what you could want in a membership and event management tool. Uninstalled because it is extremely complex and arcane in its approach to just about everything. Re-installed because I wanted to give it another shot. Uninstalled again due to daunting complexity. My biggest gripe is that so many of the pieces and parts require building from the ground up. New member form? You have to create a template from scratch. New event form? Same. And something simple like asking for State turns into an adventure down the rabbit hole of setting up massive drop-down lists that can’t be re-formatted easily. While there are CSS hooks for many elements, not all are either obvious or documented. So something simple like entering the State on a new member form becomes a drop-down that takes up the entire container width and there’s no clear way of limiting its size. It seems to be hard-coded into the #_State template tag.

I suspect for the professional developer, this could be the best events plug-in out there. But for part-time hackers like me, it’s too complicated.

I give the developer credit, he does respond to questions within a day or so but some of those responses are a bit terse. And his own site continually throws up an automated bot error making it impossible for me to search on solutions in his forums.