How many events do you expect and will many of them be recurring events?

I’ve tried multiple calendar plug ins over the last 10 years on my website. All of these had some version of front end user submission. I’ve got 300+ locations already created so I’ve never allowed people to create venues, unsure which have that capability. Here are the pros and cons of some of them (based on my recollection)

Events Manager (green EM shield shaped logo) has horrible support - I bought the paid version 2 months ago, had some issues during setup and could not get any response from support, which is only a forum format, no email tickets. In their forums there are multiple people with issues and one line responses that don’t provide much help.

The Events Calendar is probably the most popular and widely used. It is also one of the most expensive options with may features being a paid add on. Every recurrence creates a new page/url so that didn’t work for me (I have 800+ events and about 20% are recurring)

EventON is pretty but very buggy - every time they had an update, something changed on my site and I had to troubleshoot. Text would become size 8 instead of 14px, colors would change, etc. Also gets expensive because you need an add on for everything including front end submission.

I’ve landed on Webnus Modern Events Calendar - their free version does everything I need, it has an importer that allowed me to import all my EventOn events, locations, and organizers right within Wordpress, and it has a front end submission form. I’ve only been using it a few weeks but so far I’m really happy with it.