For WordPress Sites
Turnout gives WordPress sites a working registration workflow without a ticketing add-on to license or a form plugin bolted onto the event page. Create your event in Turnout, paste one script tag into a Custom HTML block, and visitors register without leaving your site.
Works in the Gutenberg Custom HTML block, an Elementor HTML widget, or a Divi Code module. Same script tag either way.
How it usually works now
WordPress has no single, built-in way to take event registrations. Most sites end up with a paid plugin add-on, a general-purpose form, or a redirect to Eventbrite.
What changes with Turnout
Turnout adds the registration workflow WordPress is missing, without the add-on licence fee or the form plugin’s blind spots.
It runs in whatever block editor the site already uses, and it replaces the add-on and the form plugin with one piece of registration built for events specifically.
No Plugin
Add the snippet to a Custom HTML block in Gutenberg, an HTML widget in Elementor, or a Code module in Divi. Nothing to install from the plugin directory, nothing to keep updated, no licence to renew.
Inline Registration
They read about the event and sign up on the same page, in the same layout. The confirmation comes from your site, not a platform they do not recognise.
Capacity & Waitlist
Set a capacity limit once. When the event fills, the form switches itself to a waitlist and promotes the next person when a spot opens — none of which a general form plugin can do.
Automatic Emails
Every registrant gets a confirmation with the event’s actual date, time, and location, and a reminder 24 hours out. No export, no separate email tool.
| Feature | Turnout embed | Events Calendar + Tickets addon | Form plugin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Works without a paid add-on | Yes | No — $99–199/yr | Yes |
| Capacity limit with automatic waitlist | Yes | Yes | No |
| Reminder email before the event | Yes | Yes | No |
| Confirmation matches the event, not a generic form receipt | Yes | Yes | No |
| Plugin to install and keep updated | No | Yes | Yes |
Who It Fits
The starting point varies. The gap is the same: registration that is not built for events.
The calendar and event pages already work. Turnout adds registration without the paid ticketing add-on.
Elementor or Divi sites where events are just pages, with nowhere for people to actually register.
Weekly classes, lunch and learns, or volunteer orientations that need capacity limits and reminders every time.
Registration that currently redirects away, and a site owner who would rather keep visitors on their own domain.
Why Switch
Because the two common answers, a paid ticketing add-on or a general form plugin, both make you pay for something you do not need — in cost, or in missing features.
Multiple ticket types, seat maps, and complex pricing justify $99–199 a year if you are running that kind of programme. Most small businesses need headcount and a reminder, not a box office.
WPForms and Gravity Forms are general-purpose. Nothing stops registrations at capacity, and nothing sends a reminder unless you build that yourself.
It solves registration by moving the visitor to a platform that is not yours, with its own suggested events and its own name on the confirmation.
Common Question
Skip the plugin step entirely. Create the event in Turnout — title, date, time, location, and an optional capacity limit — then copy the embed snippet from the Embed tab.
In WordPress, open the page where the form should appear. In the Gutenberg editor, add a Custom HTML block and paste the snippet in. In Elementor, drag in an HTML widget and paste it there. In Divi, use a Code module.
Publish the page. The registration form renders where the block sits — no plugin installed, nothing added to the plugin directory, and nothing to update when WordPress ships its next release.
The setup happens once, in the block editor you already use.
Step 1
Add the date, time, location, capacity, and any custom fields you need beyond name and email.
Step 2
In Gutenberg, search "Custom HTML." In Elementor, use the HTML widget. In Divi, use the Code module.
Step 3
Registrations, reminders, and the waitlist run from your dashboard. The WordPress page just displays it.
Try Turnout
Start a free trial, paste one script tag into a Custom HTML block, and replace the ticketing add-on or the form plugin with registration built for events.