The Events Calendar Community Events 5.0.15
Wordpress Plugins Events Calendar 4.8 (4.4K reviews)
The Events Calendar Community Events is a WordPress plugin developed by Modern Tribe, the same team behind the popular Events Calendar plugin family. It extends an existing Events Calendar installation by turning ordinary site visitors into event submitters. Instead of requiring every event submission to go through a site administrator, the plugin places a submission form directly on the frontend of your website. Anyone visiting your site can propose an event without ever seeing the WordPress admin dashboard. For organizations that manage community calendars, local event listings, or user-generated schedules, this removes a significant bottleneck. You no longer have to collect event details through email or separate forms and then manually re-enter them into the backend. This plugin acts as an add-on, meaning it assumes you run The Events Calendar and want to open the submission process to the public. It is not a standalone calendar tool; its purpose is to add a contribution layer on top of an existing calendar setup.
Similar products
Codecanyon
The main feature is the public submission form. Site visitors see this form on the frontend of your site and can fill in the details of their event themselves. They do not log in to the WordPress dashboard and never interact with admin screens. Once submitted, the event enters your calendar and appears alongside the events you publish yourself. This removes the need for you to act as a go-between. Submissions come directly from the people organizing the activities. Community members can describe their event, provide the date and location, and send it through in one step. For site owners, the advantage is that the calendar fills with content from the people who actually know their events best. It also keeps your data structured, because every submission follows the same form and lands in the same place. There is no need to copy text from an email or reconstruct missing details. Each event arrives with its information attached.
Because this is an add-on for The Events Calendar, the events submitted by your visitors show up in the same familiar layout and views you already use. It does not require visitors to have any level of WordPress access. That separation is useful for security and for keeping your site organized. Contributors never see menus, settings, or backend options that are not meant for them. Site administrators retain full control over the calendar itself, while the frontend form handles the intake of new events. Installation follows the standard WordPress flow: the plugin arrives as a zip file, you upload it through the plugin screen, activate it, and it becomes part of your calendar system. Once active, it sits quietly in the background and only becomes visible when you add the submission form to a page. You end up with a calendar that accepts input from your audience without exposing your administration area or complicating the publishing process for your regular editors.
The real value of this plugin is that it removes a layer of friction from event publishing. Community groups and local organizations often have a coordinator, but not everyone can log in and create posts. By giving those people a simple frontend form, the plugin lets them contribute directly. Site owners keep the final say because they still manage the calendar, yet they no longer have to chase down details or act as the only person who can add a listing. It is built for situations where events come from many different people, such as neighborhood calendars, club schedules, church groups, and school event pages. Since it works within the existing Events Calendar system, there is no new interface for visitors to learn; the submission flow is the only thing they encounter. The download contains the same installable zip file you would get from the original developers, so you can add it to WordPress and put the frontend form to work.
- Item type
- plugin
- Category
- Wordpress Plugins
- Version
- 6.0
- Availability
- In stock
- Delivery
- Digital
- Last updated
- August 2, 2026
The Events Calendar Community Events is cataloged as a Wordpress Plugins under plugin. Review the preview and recorded details alongside the original description before purchase.
Usage rights depend on the license selected at checkout. Review the complete terms before using this item for client work, redistribution, SaaS, or more than one end product.