We believe event management should be simple! Sugar Calendar is a powerful yet lightweight events management plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to create event calendars , manage event registrations, and sell tickets, without the bloat. With Sugar Calendar, you get just the features you need fo
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 6.2 and PHP 7.4.
SourceWordPress plugins · Nov 12, 2026
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Aboutthistool.
We believe event management should be simple! Sugar Calendar is a powerful yet lightweight events management plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to create event calendars , manage event registrations, and sell tickets, without the bloat.
With Sugar Calendar, you get just the features you need for handling events of all types without a complicated setup or slow interface. You can easily manage in-person, virtual, one-time, and recurring events with just a few clicks.
Want recurring events, venues, RSVPs, frontend submissions, and more? Get Sugar Calendar Pro Today →
Key Features at a Glance
The free version of Sugar Calendar covers the essentials: publish an event calendar, take event registrations, and sell tickets right away.
Simple Event Creation & Management
New to event management? Our step-by-step guide walks you through creating your first event, from the event name and description to the duration, recurrence, and venue.
Create events within your WordPress dashboard using our clean, clutter-free interface. Define event details like dates and times (including all-day or multi-day options), and manage your events calendar entries just like standard posts.
Calendar and List View Displays
Show your events as a monthly event calendar or an upcoming events list. Visitors can switch between month, week, and day views, and both layouts are responsive, with an optional dark mode.
Sell Tickets with Stripe
Monetize your events without needing extra extensions! Sugar Calendar integrates directly with Stripe, enabling secure credit card payments for paid event registration.
Sugar Calendar is a verified Stripe partner .
Running a free event? Turn on ticketing without connecting a payment provider and let visitors claim free tickets. You still get a full attendee list for every event.
Registration Forms for Attendee Details
Collect more than a name and email during ticket checkout. Build a registration form and ask each attendee for a meal choice, t-shirt size, company name, or anything else your event needs. Answers are saved with each attendee, so the details are there when you need them.
Email Notifications for Event Attendees
When plans change, send an email to every ticket holder of an event straight from your WordPress dashboard. Handy for schedule changes, venue updates, and last-minute reminders.
Online Events with Zoom and Google Meet
Connect your Zoom or Google account once, then add a Zoom meeting or a Google Meet link to any event right from the event editor. Sugar Calendar creates the meeting and shows the join details on the event page. With Pro, a recurring event’s Zoom meeting uses one join link for the whole series.
Connect your Google account, pick a calendar, and choose which way events sync. Events you create in Sugar Calendar show up in Google Calendar, and changes made in Google come back to your site, so both calendars stay up to date. Lite brings a recurring Google event in as one event on its first date; Pro syncs the whole series both ways.
Multiple Calendars (Event Categories)
Structure your events by organizing them into distinct calendars or categories. Create unique calendars for different event types, departments, or topics, and let visitors filter the events calendar to the ones they care about.
Migrating from The Events Calendar?
Moving away from The Events Calendar plugin? One click migrates your events, calendars, and other details from The Events Calendar to Sugar Calendar.
Calendar Feeds and Add to Calendar Buttons
Sugar Calendar Pro provides archive calendar feeds, calendar subscriptions, provider controls, and Add to Calendar controls on event pages. Visitors can use Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Calendar, or a direct .ics download.
Google Maps Integration
Display a Google Map for your event venue/location on the event details page. Just enter the event address, and Sugar Calendar will show an interactive map, helping attendees easily find your event.
Event Tags for Filtering
Organize and categorize your events using customizable tags, similar to WordPress post tags. Assign relevant tags to events, allowing visitors to easily filter the events calendar on the frontend to find exactly what they’re looking for.
Attendee Management & Export
Keep track of attendees and ticket orders in your WordPress dashboard. For each event, you can view the list of attendees/ticket holders and their details. Need to share or analyze data? Export attendees or event lists to CSV with one click.
Customizable Event Emails
Make ticket, receipt, and RSVP emails match your site. Pick the Modern template, add a header image and your colors, and preview any email before it goes out. Smart Tags fill in names, dates, and event details for you. Modern ticket and RSVP confirmations also include an Add to Calendar button and an .ics file, so attendees can save the date in one click.
Import/Export Events
Migrate or back up your event data easily. Export your events as a JSON file, or as a CSV file ready for Excel and Google Sheets, and pick a custom date range so you only export what you need. You can also import events from a JSON export file.
AI Assistants & Automation
Sugar Calendar supports the WordPress Abilities API, so AI assistants and automation tools can work with your events. The AI tab under Tools installs the WPVibe.ai plugin in one click and shows you what AI assistants can do with your event calendar.
Custom Date and Time Formats
Customize how event dates and times are displayed to match your locale or preference. Choose from common date/time formats or use your own format – perfect for international sites.
Dashboard Events Widget
See your upcoming events right on the WordPress dashboard. With Pro, the widget also shows venues, speakers, and quick links to recurring events and attendee lists.
Gutenberg Blocks & Elementor Widgets
Add your event calendar or events list to any page, post, or sidebar with a Gutenberg block or an Elementor widget. Shortcodes cover every other editor.
Modern, Lightweight Design
Sugar Calendar is optimized for speed, so it won’t slow down your site. The admin interface is clean and intuitive, and your frontend event calendar inherits your theme’s styles, with dark mode support included. Developers can override any template in the theme.
Translation Ready
Fully localized and ready for translation. Sugar Calendar has already been translated into 10+ languages and can be easily translated into your language, so your events calendar can serve audiences worldwide.
Sugar Calendar Pro Features
Want to unlock more advanced event management capabilities? Sugar Calendar Pro (available with a premium license ) includes all the free features plus many powerful enhancements to help you stay organized and grow your events:
Advanced Event Registration & RSVP Management
Take control of your guest lists with the RSVP system, included with Sugar Calendar Pro via the RSVP Addon. It adds an RSVP tab to the Sugar Calendar menu where you can track who is “Going” or “Not Going” to each event, with every attendee’s details in one screen.
Recurring Events
Schedule events to repeat automatically on a daily, weekly, monthly, or custom schedule. Save time by creating recurring events (including complex recurrence patterns like the first Monday of the month or every other Thursday) instead of manually duplicating events in your events calendar.
Event Venues & Locations
Create and manage reusable venue profiles. Store addresses, maps, contact details, and website links for each location.
Assign venues to events to display rich location information (and a Google Map) easily, perfect for recurring events at the same place and enhancing your overall events management.
Speakers Management
Easily add speaker or performer profiles to your events. Include names, titles, bios, photos, and social links to highlight who will be featured, enhancing your event listings.
Frontend Event Submissions
Accept event submissions from your community or team without giving them backend access. Sugar Calendar Pro integrates with popular form plugins (WPForms, Gravity Forms, Formidable Forms) to allow frontend event submission forms.
Visitors can submit events through a form on your site, and you can review/publish them at your convenience. Perfect for community calendars and user-submitted events.
Event Duplication
Clone any event with one click and use it as a template. Duplicate an event with all its details and settings, make a couple of edits, and publish, instead of recreating similar events from scratch.
Import Events from Google, Apple, Outlook, and other 3rd party Calendars
Import events from any calendar with an ICS URL, including Apple, Google, and Outlook. Pro can re-sync your ICS URLs on a schedule you choose and keeps a history of past runs, so imported calendars stay current on their own.
Event Link (Custom Event URLs)
Need to send an event to an external page or ticketing site? Pro lets you set a custom URL for each event, used instead of the default event page.
Priority Support
Get access to our top-notch support team with prioritized email support for Pro users. Need help or have questions? Pro license holders receive fast, dedicated support from the Sugar Calendar team via email
Take Your Events to the Next Level! Get recurring events, event venues, speakers, frontend submissions, and automatic calendar imports with Sugar Calendar Pro. Get Sugar Calendar Pro Today →
Sugar Calendar Pro Addons
Sugar Calendar also offers official addons to extend functionality even further. These addons integrate Sugar Calendar with other platforms and tools. If you purchase a Plus, Pro, or Elite license to Sugar Calendar, you get access to all current and future addons.
RSVP – Collect and track RSVPs directly in your WordPress dashboard. See who responded “Going” or “Not Going”, keep guest details in one place, and collect extra attendee information with registration forms.
Event Ticketing – Connects your events calendar to WooCommerce so you can sell tickets as
See it in action
Screenshots & previews.
Show your events anywhere with a clean monthly calendar, color coded by calendar.Week view with filters for featured events, calendars, days, times, speakers, venues and tags.Manage every event from the admin calendar in month, week or day view.Create events faster with Gia, the built-in AI assistant.Event editor with dates, times, featured events and calendars in one place.Advanced recurring events that repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly (Pro).Online and hybrid events with automatic Zoom meeting links.Custom registration forms to collect attendee details at checkout (Pro).Attendees fill in registration details when they RSVP (Pro).Sell tickets with Stripe and manage every order.Ticket purchase receipt page.Ticket details page with QR code and registration answers.Venue pages with a map and upcoming events (Pro).Speaker profiles with upcoming events (Pro).Organize events into color-coded calendars with subscribable feeds (feeds are Pro).Admin week view.Admin day view.General settings for date and time formats, editor and time zones.Payment settings to connect Stripe and set your currency.Sync events with Google Calendar and add Google Meet links.
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Gettingstarted.
01Install Sugar Calendar Lite either via the WordPress.org plugin repository or by uploading the files to your server. (See instructions on how to install a WordPress plugin )
02Activate Sugar Calendar Lite.
03Navigate to the Sugar Calendar area in the WordPress admin and start creating events.
04Need more help? Get priority support with a premium Sugar Calendar license .
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Frequently asked questions.
Can I customize how the date is displayed?
Yes! You can control and customize date and time formatting. Go to Sugar Calendar > Settings.
The most commonly used formats are pre-populated for you to select, or you can select ‘Custom’ and format things exactly what you want.
Be sure to click the ‘Help’ button on the top-right of the admin screen to get details on how everything works. You can achieve just about any result imaginable.
Help! I need support or have an issue.
Limited support is available for Sugar Calendar Lite users via WordPress.org support forums.
Email support and set up assistance is available to premium Sugar Calendar license users.
Can I sell tickets to my events?
Yes. Sugar Calendar has built-in event ticketing with Stripe for paid tickets, and you can offer free tickets without connecting a payment provider. You can also add a registration form to collect extra details from each attendee during checkout, and export your attendee list to CSV.
Can I add Zoom meetings to my events?
Yes. Connect your Zoom account under Sugar Calendar > Settings > Integrations, then add a Zoom meeting to an event from the event editor. The join details appear on the event page.
Can I sync my events with Google Calendar?
Yes. Connect your Google account under Sugar Calendar > Settings > Integrations, choose a Google calendar, and pick the sync direction. You can also add a Google Meet link to any event from the event editor.
Can I migrate from The Events Calendar?
Yes. Sugar Calendar includes a one-click migration tool for The Events Calendar. Go to Sugar Calendar > Tools > Migrate, and your events, calendars, and other details come across automatically.
Can I have recurring / repeating events?
The premium versions of Sugar Calendar have recurring / repeating event features, where you can configure even the most complex repeating event schedules.
Can I display Google Maps with my Events?
Yes, you can display a Google Maps map of the event location on the event details page. The only thing you need is a Google Maps API key that you can configure in the Sugar Calendar settings.
I am getting a 404 / “page not found” error.
If you are getting these types of errors when viewing an event page, you may need to resave your permalink structure. Go to Settings > Permalinks and click “Save Changes”. Then try viewing the page again.
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