Ever wished there was a straightforward strategy to show calendars, handle occasions, and promote occasion tickets out of your WordPress website?
Most occasion calendar plugins are both approach too easy or overly advanced. That’s why I acquired Sugar Calendar just a few years in the past.
Immediately, I’m excited to announce that we’ve fully revamped Sugar Calendar from the bottom up (free version here).
With Sugar Calendar 3.0, we’ve fully reimagined how the plugin works. Now, managing occasions & ticketing in WordPress is less complicated and quicker.
About Sugar Calendar
Sugar Calendar has been one of the vital beginner-friendly occasion calendar plugins for WordPress. My buddy, Pippin Williamson, created the plugin 12 years in the past with a aim of creating a easy occasion administration & ticketing plugin for WordPress.
In 2021, I acquired the plugin as half of a bigger deal that introduced Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, WP Simple Pay, in addition to Sugar Calendar to the WPBeginner household of manufacturers.
With the most recent Sugar Calendar replace 3.0, we’ve fully redesigned the plugin from the bottom up, prioritizing your productiveness. You’ll discover a recent, fashionable look and an easy-to-use structure that can make you marvel the way you ever managed occasions with out it.
Let’s discover these new options:
New Admin Space: Creating Occasions Made Simple
Sugar Calendar’s brand-new occasion plugin administration dashboard makes it straightforward so as to add new occasions to your calendar. In the event you want a refresher, you possibly can shortly discover hyperlinks to the documentation.
All of the choices it is advisable to arrange occasions in WordPress are organized in a streamlined approach.
Listed here are just a few choices you’ll discover in our WordPress occasion builder:
- Period: Simply assign a begin and finish time to your occasion.
- Recurrence: Make the occasions recurring on the calendar if you need.
- Location: Show an interactive map with Google Maps pointing to the occasion’s location.
- Tickets: Handle ticket gross sales for each digital and in-person occasions proper out of your WordPress website.
- Particulars: You possibly can add related occasion particulars both with the traditional editor or block editor. Your most well-liked editor could be chosen from the plugin settings.
After organising occasions within the occasion builder, you possibly can publish and embed it on any web page of your website.
This enables your customers so as to add occasions to their calendar of alternative, akin to Google Calendar / Microsoft Outlook / Apple Calendar, and even obtain the occasion as an ICS file.
Set up Occasions Into Calendars Like By no means Earlier than
In the event you host a number of completely different sort of occasions, then you definately want a straightforward approach for customers to seek out the occasion sort they’re on the lookout for.
For instance, church buildings usually host completely different occasion sorts, like small teams, fundraising occasions, bible examine, digital sermons, and so on. Companies, however, additionally host various kinds of occasions, akin to conferences, webinars, consultations, and extra.
Since attendees for every occasion sort are sometimes completely different, it is sensible to prepare a separate calendar for every occasion sort that you just provide.
With Sugar Calendar, you possibly can simply change between calendars, select your most well-liked view (month-to-month, weekly, each day, or record), and even filter occasions by date. Alternatively, you possibly can seek for a particular occasion utilizing the search bar on the proper.
Drag-and-Drop Calendar Blocks to Present Occasions
Sugar Calendar makes it straightforward so as to add occasions to any posts or pages in WordPress.
It comes with 2 Sugar Calendar blocks.
1. Occasions Calendar
Show your occasions in a clear and engaging calendar view.
Throughout the block choices, you possibly can configure which calendar to show, customise accent colours, and choose the popular view – whether or not it’s weekly, month-to-month, or each day.
When revealed, this block allows customers to toggle between completely different calendar views on the entrance finish, making certain a customized expertise for each customer.
2. Occasions Checklist
With the Occasions Checklist block, you possibly can show your occasions in a summarized record.
This block is the only option when you solely wish to spotlight occasions from the upcoming week.
In contrast to displaying your complete calendar, the record block doesn’t take up quite a lot of house on the web page to show the occasions.
Promote Occasion Tickets with no Problem
The Occasion Ticketing addon lets you handle ticket gross sales for each digital and in-person occasions proper out of your WordPress website. The plugin helps you to course of the funds with Stripe.
We even have a seamless WooCommerce integration that you should utilize as nicely. It lets you allow a typical WooCommerce checkout expertise for promoting tickets.
Extra Options That Make Sugar Calendar Standout
Beneath are just a few options that you just’ll love about Sugar Calendar:
- Automate Workflow with Zapier: Connect with over 7,000+ apps to streamline your occasion administration processes.
- Frontend Occasion Submission: Combine Sugar Calendar with a kind builder plugin and permit customers to submit occasions instantly from the frontend of your website.
- Calendar Feed Subscription: Allow guests to get occasion updates on to their private calendars on Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and extra.
Strive Sugar Calendar Immediately
I’m excited concerning the enhancements we made thus far with Sugar Calendar.
I’m additionally extraordinarily happy with the group response thus far, as everyone seems to be loving the brand new options.
This new launch is already accessible for all customers, so please give Sugar Calendar a attempt to share your ideas by posting a remark right here.
You too can get began at no cost by putting in the Sugar Calendar free plugin from WordPress.org. This free model supplies all of the important occasion administration and calendar options to get you up and working.
The journey doesn’t finish right here. If in case you have concepts on find out how to enhance the plugin to your wants, please don’t hesitate to share them here.
As at all times, I’m grateful to your continued help and look ahead to listening to from you.
Yours Actually,
Syed Balkhi
Founding father of WPBeginner
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