Terrible Block Editor integration!

It had been years since I last used this plugin, so I decided to give it another try. I was genuinely hoping things had improved, but I came away quite disappointed.

As a WordPress developer, I found the latest version unnecessarily complex and frustrating to work with. Simply activating it produced numerous PHP warnings in my development environment, which immediately raised concerns about code quality and attention to WordPress best practices.

The biggest disappointment, however, is the Block Editor integration. Astonishingly, it’s not even enabled by default, you first have to find and enable an option to use it. In 2026, that’s hard to understand!

Unfortunately, enabling it doesn’t improve the experience much. It doesn’t feel like a native WordPress experience at all. Event metadata is tightly coupled to the plugin’s blocks, so if you remove those blocks from a Single Event template, you also lose the ability to properly edit the event’s metadata. Rather than integrating with the Block Editor, the plugin forces you into its own awful editing model.

The blocks themselves don’t behave like native, composable WordPress blocks. Their UI feels inconsistent with the rest of the editor, the icons are oversized and visually out of place, and the overall editing experience feels clunky rather than seamless.

Overall, this plugin feels more like a large legacy framework layered on top of WordPress than a plugin that embraces Gutenberg conventions and philosophy. It offers many features, but at the cost of simplicity, consistency, and developer experience.

I can’t recommend this plugin in its current state. I hope the team behind it takes this feedback seriously and rethinks its approach to WordPress integration.