Simple Event Planner

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 90% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ lancefrenchcom

   1.5y ago

   Lovely, simple, Event plugin, excellent support, well written code. Just what I was looking for.Cant say better than that.

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2. ★★★★★ Matt Knowles

   1.5y ago

   I would have thought a plugin designed to display events would at least be able to sort them either in ascending or descending order. Instead it displays them based on the date the event post was entered. Also it displays an unneeded search field, and even though their FAQ has a shortcode example to hide it, I could not get that feature to work. Not a usable solution and I deleted it. This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by Matt Knowles.

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3. ★★★★★ danielepais

   2.2y ago

   Fantastic, simple but effective plugin for your event calendar. I have paired it with forminator to add a booking form capability, and the two together form a rock solid solution.

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4. ★★★★★ wardencenter

   3.1y ago

   Great Plugin that works right of the box. It has the best looking single event page we’ve seen, and we’ve tried 13 event calendar plugins. It takes some careful thinking, but changing the templates is pretty easy if one wants to do some customizations. A big “thank you” to Simple Planner!

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5. ★★★★★ strellegedanser

   3.4y ago

   Is it somehow possible to show past events?

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6. ★★★★★ adkusterswp

   3.6y ago

   None of the shortcodes work except [event_listing] and [event_calendar]

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7. ★★★★★ sardorusmonov

   5.1y ago

   Shortcodes don’t work.

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8. ★★★★★ sancukosan

   5.5y ago

   Amazing plugin This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by sancukosan.

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2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.4 Simple Event Planner <= 1.5.4 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2022-03-23 CVE-2022-25611 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.5.4 Patched in 1.5.5
2. Medium · 4.1 Simple Event Planner plugin <= 1.5.4 - Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2022-03-23 CVE-2022-25612 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.5.4 Patched in 1.5.5

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 42 languages, 8 at 90% or more

Plus 18 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

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Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• My Calendar – Accessible Event Manager 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Eventin – Event Calendar, Tickets, Registration, Booking & WooCommerce 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Events Widgets For Elementor And The Events Calendar 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• Sugar Calendar – Events Calendar, Event Tickets, and Events Management Platform 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• Event Single Page Builder For The Events Calendar 6K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• EventON – Events Calendar 6K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B

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Simple Event Planner: 1K+ active installs, 4.3★ (23 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/simple-event-planner