Comparison of Event Calendar Plug-ins

A quick look in no particular order (except mine first of course) .  Yes I am checking out the competition – I love developing, but need to get some return on it.  Hence some research on what others are doing.

Update as at: Feb 2012

amr-ical-events-list

• free at wordpress (4 star rating, 2012 updates)
• input via  ics file subscription
• most customisable calendars, agendas, schedules etc, variety of views
• date navigation and pagination
• widgets

amr-events

• paid addon to the above ($40)
• full event creation, custom post types, taxonomies, locations
• filtering
• filters, pluggable functions
• variety of map plugin integrations
• multi lingual integration
• produce ics feeds
• uses wordpress as intended so you get benefits of being able to integrate other plugins

event espresso ($$$!)

• lite version at wordpress (3 star rating)
• paid version not cheap (lots of addons – top price $500, base at $90)
• registration, ticketing, payment gateways
• recurring events an addon

all in one event calendar

• free version at wordpress (5 star rating, 2012 update)
• is it error prone? (7 brokens for last version, but 13 works)
• paid support at $120 hour
• recurring, ics import/export, variety of views, widgets

events manager

• free version at wordpress (4 star rating, last update 2010/10)
• paid version $75
• bookings, paypal

• free at wordpress (4 star, but last update 2010)

events calendar

• free version at wordpress (3 star)
• create and present calendar for events

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