Wow! What a great plugin.

Full points for Frankie and Events Made Easy.

This is an incredibly powerful plugin and it works right out of the box. You can –literally – install the plugin, put the “events” page into your menus, and start adding events. Everything just works from there. The plugin will generate event listings, event description pages, booking forms, confirmation email and everything else you need to manage your calendar of events. Of course, some things need configuration ( like a reply-to email address ) but all the web pages work from default settings.

Payments are made easy too. It has simple, single click integration with a wide variety of payment platforms.

Fully integrated with your WordPress membership database, so you don’t need to run a second system. Everything is in one place.

If you want like to play, you can configure the output of the default web pages. Settings for every aspect of those pages are in your control. You can set up defaults for everything (and there is a lot) and you can over-ride everything.

In addition there are templates, a bit like Smarty, which can be almost everywhere. Templates can include conditional logic with IF statements and LOOPS, which are based on values from the event data. How cool is that!

Shortcodes allow you to integrate your events into posts and pages. Your shortcodes can include search queries based on date, time and category and they can call templates. The logic is simple and flexible. The mix of search and templates ( and conditional logic in the template ) means that you can do a lot (!) with shortcodes. In fact, the “basic usage” page in the documentation ( did I mention that there is good documentation ) says “you need to use shortcodes on regular pages to get anything done from EME.” That’s so not true, but it is does give you total control.

Plus, there are hooks and filters, so you can knock yourself out.