Event Management – current free account

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  sfpvadmin · Member · Sep 25, 2017 at 12:57 pm

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  Hi,
  we have this site for our local club so we are using the free hosted version of WP currently.
  Next year we would like to run our event management through our site, however it seems to add the required widget(s) for this we would need to take a business subscription, is that correct?
  We only want to do this one thing and we certainly do not have the funds to support this at the stated business level of charges, is there any other way or will I have to look to a different hosted platform (like Godaddy maybe?)where I will be able to add these features?
  I just want to check I have understood the limitations correctly.
  Many Thanks

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  staff-imahappyengineer · Staff · Sep 25, 2017 at 1:17 pm

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  Hello @sfpvadmin,

  Yes, you are correct, you need to get a business subscription from WordPress.COM in order to use plugins(widgets as you called it) for event management. See https://en.support.wordpress.com/plan-features/

  Alternatively, if you’re to use self-hosted WordPress in order to use plugins, you can use Jetpack as well, so you can connect your website to your WordPress.com account.

  Regards,
  Rose

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  themagicrobot · Member · Sep 25, 2017 at 1:30 pm

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  Have you looked at https://en.support.wordpress.com/eventbrite/

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  sfpvadmin · Member · Sep 25, 2017 at 2:29 pm

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  staff-imahappyengineer – thank you that is great info.

  @themagicrobot – I had not, I am investigating that now, it could be the ideal solution, thank you.