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Hello Event

Manage events and sell tickets through WooCommerce in an extremely easy way. Just drop in the plugin and you're ready to go.

By christer_f·Ical·Free
5(2 reviews)
·0 active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, Hello Event is a WordPress ical plugin with 0 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Simple Google Calendar Outlook Events….

5/52 reviews
0active installs
3.4K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018

Overview

Hello Event adds event management and ticket sales in an extremely easy way to any WordPress site! Just drop in the plugin and you’re ready to go. Welcome to the “Hello World” for events!

With this plugin you can easily create and manage events (like concerts, training camps or competitions). The events you create have fields for location, start and end dates (and optionally times for events that are not full-day events) and can be presented in different formats, both in lists and in calendars.

If you have installed WooCommerce you will be able to generate and sell tickets with a simple click. On the event page a link will point to the tickets in WooCommerce and in WooCommerce there will be a backlink from the ticket to the event. And in the backend dashboard you will i…

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Ratings & Reviews

52 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5
PHP7.4+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

= 1.3.17
* Tested up to WordPress version 6.6.1
* Minor bug fix
= 1.3.16
* New shortcode: hello-thumbnail-url, which does not include the IMG tag
* Added the property “Location Name” to the event
* Added shortcode hello-location-name to extract the Location Name
* Added shortcode hello-event-location-address as a synonym to hello-event-location
* Added the property “Advice” to the event
* Added shortcode hello-advice to extract the Advice
* Added a setting for automatical insertion of the Advice
* Modified the default presentation of events to include the Location Name and Advice
* Add end-time in the event list
* Accept slug in the shortcode hello-default-event
= 1.3.15
* Event custom page enabled also for calendar and tabbed display
* Minor fix in the width of thumbnails returned by the hello-thumbnail shortcode
* Text parameter to the shortcode hello-event-ics
* Text to book ticket in event list is localized
= 1.3.14
* Added possibility to display the event using a custom page. This also means there are several new shortcodes
* More debug info when debug setting is switched on in the settings
* Added Dutch language – courtesy of Wim De Kelver
* Removed language parameter from shortcodes. This parameter only impacted how dates are shown, but this is already handled in the plugin settings
* Bug correction: when settings are positioned to use other date format than ISO (yyyy-mm-dd) the test to show the link to an event ticket only for future events failed. Has been corrected
= 1.3.13
* Better info about Demo site on WordPress.org
= 1.3.12
* Fixed deprecation warning from PHP 8.1.27
= 1.3.11
* Tickets to past events can automatically be set to not visible so they don’t appear in the shop
* The calendar view of events can be set to show monthly, weekly or daily calendars as controlled by shotcode parameters
* Update of the Javascript Fullcalendar to version 6.1.5
= 1.3.10
* Added thumbnail parameter to the shortcode ‘hello-event-list’ making it possible to force the thumbails to be square or/and round
= 1.3.9
* Fixed the translation of excerpts generated from the description text.

1.3.8

  • Better generation of excerpts, including the possibility to support event categories (these are not defined in this plugin)
  • Made some functions public so they can be called from other plugins, in particular the new Hello Event Again plugin
  • Minor bug fixes
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

christer_fchrister_f
Plugin Info
Version
1.3.17
Last Updated
Aug 14, 2024
WP Requires
4.6+
Tested Up To
6.6.5
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
0
Downloads
3.4K+
Added
Jun 14, 2018
Business
Free

Tags

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Developer

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