Events & Ticketing Made Easy in WordPress

Ever wished there was a straightforward method to show calendars, handle occasions, and promote occasion tickets out of your WordPress web site?

Most occasion calendar plugins are both manner 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 simpler and quicker.

About Sugar Calendar

Sugar Calendar has been some of the beginner-friendly occasion calendar plugins for WordPress. My good friend, Pippin Williamson, created the plugin 12 years in the past with a aim of constructing 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 contemporary, trendy look and an easy-to-use structure that can make you surprise 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 simple so as to add new occasions to your calendar. Should you want a refresher, you may shortly discover hyperlinks to the documentation.

All of the choices it is advisable arrange occasions in WordPress are organized in a streamlined manner.

Listed here are just a few choices you’ll discover in our WordPress occasion builder:

• Length: Simply assign a begin and finish time in your occasion.
• Recurrence: Make the occasions recurring on the calendar in order for you.
• 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 web site.
• Particulars: You possibly can add related occasion particulars both with the basic editor or block editor. Your most popular editor will be chosen from the plugin settings.

After setting up events in the event builder, you may publish and embed it on any web page of your web site.

This permits your customers so as to add occasions to their calendar of alternative, equivalent to Google Calendar / Microsoft Outlook / Apple Calendar, and even obtain the occasion as an ICS file.

Manage Occasions Into Calendars Like By no means Earlier than

Should you host a number of totally different kind of occasions, then you definitely want a straightforward manner for customers to seek out the occasion kind they’re in search of.

For instance, church buildings usually host totally different occasion sorts, like small teams, fundraising occasions, bible research, virtual sermons, and so forth. Companies, alternatively, additionally host various kinds of occasions, equivalent to conferences, webinars, consultations, and extra.

Since attendees for every occasion kind are sometimes totally different, it is smart to arrange a separate calendar for every occasion kind that you simply provide.

With Sugar Calendar, you may simply swap between calendars, select your most popular view (month-to-month, weekly, every day, or record), and even filter occasions by date. Alternatively, you may seek for a particular occasion utilizing the search bar on the precise.

Drag-and-Drop Calendar Blocks to Present Occasions

Sugar Calendar makes it simple 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 may configure which calendar to show, customise accent colours, and choose the popular view – whether or not it’s weekly, month-to-month, or every day.

When revealed, this block permits customers to toggle between totally different calendar views on the entrance finish, guaranteeing a customized expertise for each customer.

2. Occasions Checklist

With the Occasions Checklist block, you may show your occasions in a summarized record.

This block is your best option should you solely wish to spotlight occasions from the upcoming week.

In contrast to displaying the whole calendar, the record block doesn’t take up loads of area on the web page to show the occasions.

Promote Occasion Tickets with out a Problem

The Occasion Ticketing addon permits you to handle ticket gross sales for each digital and in-person occasions proper out of your WordPress web site. The plugin helps you to course of the payments with Stripe.

We even have a seamless WooCommerce integration that you should use as effectively. It permits you to allow a regular WooCommerce checkout expertise for promoting tickets.

Extra Options That Make Sugar Calendar Standout

Beneath are just a few options that you simply’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 form builder plugin and permit customers to submit occasions straight from the frontend of your web site.
• 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 in regards to the enhancements we made up to now with Sugar Calendar.

I’m additionally extraordinarily happy with the group response up to now, as everyone seems to be loving the brand new options.

This new launch is already out there for all customers, so please give Sugar Calendar a try to share your ideas by posting a remark right here.

You too can get began without cost by putting in the Sugar Calendar free plugin from WordPress.org. This free model gives all of the important occasion administration and calendar options to get you up and working.

The journey doesn’t finish right here. In case you have concepts on how you can enhance the plugin in your wants, please don’t hesitate to share them here.

As at all times, I’m grateful in your continued help and stay up for listening to from you.

Yours Actually,

Syed Balkhi
Founding father of WPBeginner