Best Events & Calendar Plugins for Churches (2026)
Churches typically need an events tool that handles worship services, Bible studies, youth nights, and one-off community events, while also tying into sermons, staff pages, and locations. Most generic calendars cover scheduling well but miss the sermon and people management that ministries expect. The plugins below range from a purpose-built church content system to general calendars that can still serve weekly service listings.
Plugins on this page are ordered by how strongly each one is built for churches in this category, with PluginCheck's quality score (popularity, maintenance, support health, user ratings, and WordPress compatibility) breaking ties. Every plugin listed clears our quality bar.
This is the only plugin in the list built explicitly for church websites, covering sermons, events, people, and locations in one interface. The description notes a compatible theme is required, so you will need to plan for theme work alongside installation. With a 98/100 rating across 49 reviews and an update in late May 2026, it is the most directly aligned choice.
A general event calendar with multiple view layouts, useful for showing recurring services and special events in a Google Calendar-style layout. It is not church-specific, so sermon and people data will need separate tools. Its 1,000 active installs and 86/100 rating suggest a smaller but steady user base.
Useful for tracking who is attending church services, small group meetings, or special events like Christmas services or VBS. The use cases explicitly include church service attendance tracking, which is rare for a general RSVP tool. At 3,000 installs and an 88/100 rating, it has solid traction.
A modern-looking calendar that works well for churches that want a clean visual presentation of weekly services and ministry events. It is a general event tool, so it will not connect to your sermon library or staff directory. With only 18 ratings, community feedback is thinner than the top picks.
Only useful if your church already runs The Events Calendar plugin and wants Gutenberg block layouts for service and event pages. It is an add-on, not a standalone calendar solution. The 66/100 rating across just 6 reviews makes it harder to lean on as a primary choice.
The most installed plugin on this list at 20,000 active sites, with a strong 94/100 rating across 157 reviews, signalling dependable accessibility and recurring event support. It is general purpose rather than church-focused, so it will not handle sermons or ministry-specific content. If accessibility matters to your congregation, this is worth a close look.
A polished general calendar with recurring schedules that can handle weekly worship times and special event series. Its design-led approach suits churches that care about visual presentation on event pages. Church-specific needs like sermon integration are not part of the package.
Lets you display a Google Calendar on your site, which can work well if your church staff already coordinate in Google Workspace. The use cases include church and nonprofit organizations. It was last updated in December 2025, so it is less recently maintained than most picks here.
This is a general-purpose iframe shortcode plugin for embedding content like videos, not an events or calendar tool at all. It does not fit the events and calendar category for churches. We include it only because it appears in the dataset.
A payments and donations plugin, not an events or calendar tool. Churches using it would likely pair it with a separate calendar. Listed here because it appears in the dataset rather than because it meets the category need.
How to Choose
If sermon management is central to your site, start with Church Content, since it is the only option designed for that workflow. If you just need a reliable calendar for services and events, My Calendar offers the strongest track record on installs, ratings, and accessibility. The main tradeoff is between a church-specific system and a general calendar that you would extend with other plugins.