10 Best My Calendar Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
My Calendar sits at #3 in the WordPress.org Event Plugins ranking. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to My Calendar
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Events Manager
Closest matchEvents Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!
4.2 (548) 60,000+ active installsEvents calendar with bookings, scheduling, appointments, event registration, tickets, recurring events, and venue management.
#2 in the WordPress.org Event Plugins ranking. About 3 times the installs, rated 4.2 against 4.7, last updated 11 days ago.
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EventPrime – Events Calendar, Bookings, Tickets & AI
4.5 (84) 7,000+ active installsAI Events Calendar plugin for creating free or paid events. Supports Event Types, Bookings, Tickets, Venues, Performers, AI abilities, and a lot more.
#10 in the WordPress.org Event Plugins ranking. About a third of the installs, rated 4.5 against 4.7, last updated 3 days ago.
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WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce
4.0 (248) 20,000+ active installsLightweight, scalable and full-featured event listings & management plugin for managing events & tickets from the Frontend and Backend.
#8 in the WordPress.org Event Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, rated 4.0 against 4.7, last updated July 22, 2026.
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Sugar Calendar – Events Calendar, Event Tickets, and Events Management Platform
4.5 (24) 10,000+ active installsEasily manage events and sell tickets on your WordPress site. Sugar Calendar is easy-to-use, reliable, and exceptionally powerful. See for yourself.
#6 in the WordPress.org Event Plugins ranking. About half the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
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4.9 (212) 10,000+ active installsAdd The Events Calendar shortcode, Gutenberg block, or Events Widget Element (Bricks Builder) to show events listing on any WordPress page using smart …
#4 in the WordPress.org Event Plugins ranking. About half the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.7, last updated 6 days ago.
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4.5 (108) 10,000+ active installsThe Events Calendar Elementor widgets help you manage and display an upcoming events list with date, time, venue and event ticket booking details.
#5 in the WordPress.org Event Plugins ranking. About half the installs, rated 4.5 against 4.7, last updated 6 days ago.
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4.0 (57) 80,000+ active installsUserWay’s Accessibility Widget creates a simpler and more accessible browsing experience for your users.
#4 in the WordPress.org Accessibility Plugins ranking. About 4 times the installs, rated 4.0 against 4.7, last updated December 8, 2025.
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4.1 (32) 10,000+ active installsFix accessibility issues & make your site accessible with an AI-powered accessibility service.
#10 in the WordPress.org Accessibility Plugins ranking. About half the installs, last updated February 23, 2026.
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Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker
Paid version availableEqualize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance
4.9 (78) 10,000+ active installsFind and fix accessibility issues with confidence. Real-time reports, automated fixes, and guidance. Reduce compliance risk and reach more users.
#5 in the WordPress.org Accessibility Plugins ranking. About half the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.7, last updated 6 days ago.
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Alt Text AI – Automatically generate image alt text for SEO and accessibility
4.7 (35) 20,000+ active installsAutomatically sets the descriptive alt text of your images. Boosts your SEO and accessibility.
#9 in the WordPress.org Accessibility Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, last updated 4 days ago.
My Calendar against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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My Calendar vs Events Manager20,000+ vs 60,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 4.2
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My Calendar vs EventPrime20,000+ vs 7,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 4.5
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My Calendar vs WP Event Manager20,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 4.0
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My Calendar vs Sugar Calendar20,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 4.5
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My Calendar vs Events Shortcodes For The Events Calendar20,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 4.9
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My Calendar vs Events Widgets For Elementor And The Events Calendar20,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 4.5
Switching from My Calendar: common questions
What is the best alternative to My Calendar?
Events Manager is the closest match: it shares the Event Plugins top 10 with My Calendar and has 60,000+ active installs with a 4.2 out of 5 rating.
Which My Calendar alternative has the most users?
Accessibility by UserWay, with 80,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which My Calendar alternative is rated highest?
Events Shortcodes For The Events Calendar, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 212 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these My Calendar alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with My Calendar score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against My Calendar on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Events Manager is the closest match to My Calendar by the data we track, and Accessibility by UserWay has the widest reach with 80,000+ active installs. EventPrime shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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