EME is an excellent events plugin

I like Events Made Easy, because of its capabilities and flexibility to setup events. The fact that it’s absolutely free, there is no premium version available, is tremendous. The functions and flexibility alone are worth 5-stars.

If you want to setup EME to your liking. It comes with many placeholders, what makes it very flexible in arranging on how you present events inside its page or accept payments. It has many payment services already included. But this is not for users who are looking for an easy to setup events plugin. With basic HTML knowledge you can get want you’re looking for.

I wish settings area would be more “visual” to be easier to work with for basic users, who are no tech geeks. By visual i mean a way to move placeholders with the mouse or touch and place them where you want them, without typing. Setting up the booking/cancelling form(s) with that liking. Drag’n’drop is so easy, but I guess hard to code.

The best with this plugin is his developer, Franky. If he’s understood your problem, he’s eager to implement your suggestion. I think EME is side-project, a hobby, for him, and sometimes you have to wait for a response, but it’s coming.

The downside is, he’s the only one working on EME and the plugin doesn’t work with custom post/pages types and cannot simply share events to whatever we’d like to share it to. It does work with sharing buttons, but Openraph is tricky to setup and doesn’t work correctly for me, even when you follow the guidelines. When setup, it runs smoothly and it’s easy to add events.

Nevertheless, it’s a very helpful Events Management Plugin and if you are a developer, i guess the author would be thankful for code suggestions.

The crucial test is coming next month and if it works, i.e. sells tickets, a Donation is coming soon!

Thank you.