What’s New in WP Event Manager: SMS notification, AI Matchmaking & More

The WP Event Manager team started the year 2025 with a resolution to make the plugin. stronger, better, and more powerful in terms of features and user experience. Considering the tech advancements and customer demands and requirements, we introduced various new features in our existing plugins to make their event management journey better and smoother. 

Technical advancements have redefined the way events are planned and managed today. Most of the major event management tasks are automated today. Moreover, the AI intervention has also brought significant changes to the industry.

Our brand new feature enhancements are mostly driven by factors like the growing usage of mobile phones, AI adoption, and automation. In this article, we have shared all the major advancements that we have made in our WordPress event plugins and how they are going to help users. Lets explore.

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As a part of our regular updates, we have worked on various bugs, fixed them promptly and introduced new features based on the demands of our customers.

AI-powered matchmaking

One of the most important features that we have empowered our plugin with is the AI-powered matchmaking facility. This specific feature is added to our Registration plugin to help boost networking opportunities in events. 

Highlights of our AI-based matchmaking feature: 

• Collecting attendee data seamlessly through registration. 
• AI-driven analysis of attendee profiles, including their likes, dislikes, interests etc. 
• Detailed attendee matchmaking profile creation. 
• Relevant match suggestions to attendees based on their preferences. 
• The facility to activate and deactivate matchmaking profiles for attendees. 
• Direct messaging opportunity for all participants.
• Sending meeting requests to attendees before the event. 
• Meeting requests can be accepted or rejected as per preferences. 
• Detailed dashboard for all event meetings scheduled or canceled. 
• Real-time email notification for meeting requests, confirmation, cancellation, and more updates. 
• Facility to bookmark matches. 
• Advanced reports and analytics. 

To know more about our AI-powered matchmaking system, discover the feature now!

SMS notification Plugin

SMS notification is our brand new plugin that we have launched to bring the entire event communication system to mobile devices. The Twilio integrated plugin is developed to keep admins, organizers, and attendees informed about all types of event updates through SMS. 

Key features of the plugin include: 

• Real-time SMS notifications for new registrations, ticket purchases, and other event updates. 
• Twilio integration to ensure smooth and secure message delivery. 
• Customizable messages for each update. 
• Easy SMS tracking through a detailed dashboard that contains all your event messages along with their status. 
• Use predefined SMS templates or create your own using placeholders like {name}, {event_name}, {order_id}, etc.
• Set role-based SMSes with ease. 
• Enhance personalization in your messages through dynamic shortcodes. 
• Simplified management of SMS settings, SMS history etc for organizers through a detailed frontend dashboard. 

Note: though SMS notification is a brand new plugin, it only works when you have the Registration plugin installed in your system because you need to enable the phone number field in the registration form to help attendees connect their mobile phones to the system to receive SMS.

Pre-scheduled meetings

The next in our list is the pre-scheduled meeting feature. This feature is introduced to make event networking more powerful and easier for event participants. 

Highlight of the Pre-scheduled meeting feature: 

• Meetings can be arranged between and many people through the feature. 
• Simplified calendar integration for better schedule management. 
• Sharing meeting agendas in real time. 
• Interacting with only relevant matches. 
• Control over meeting visibility for all participants. 
• Comprehensive admin control on meeting, tracking engagement rate, measuring ROI, and networking success rates.

Real-time name badge printing

We have empowered our existing addon Name badges with additional features. Now event organizers can easily create name badges for each event in real time for their attendees. 

Highlights of Name Badges Printing:

• Customize badges for events to add a personal touch to them. 
• Improves networking in events. 
• Real-time badge printing based on demand 
• Boost brand awareness. 
• Improve user experience.

WP Seats plugins

WP Seats plugin is another newly launched addon of WP Event Manager that is designed to revolutionize seating arrangements at events. The plugin represents the combined strength of WP Event Manager and WP Seats. It is enriched with robust features to make seating super convenient for attendees and organizers. 

Key features of the WP Seats 

• Effortless seat arrangement with drag and drop facility. 
• Customizable seating layout 
• Create unique seat charts for multiple events.
• WooCommerce compatibility. 
• Seating details in tickets. 
• Seating maps on event pages. 
• Responsive seating layouts. 
• Reports and analytics. 

For more features and details on WP Seats, discover the plugin now!

What is the future of WP Event Manager?

At WP Event Manager, we are dedicated to offering the things that our customers look for. With constant updates and feature enhancement,s we have plans to make our plugins more useful and technically advanced. More AI driven tools are also there in our plans for better event management experience.