Easily manage events and sell tickets on your WordPress site. Sugar Calendar is easy-to-use, reliable, and exceptionally powerful. See for yourself.
As of April 2026, Sugar Calendar is a WordPress events plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 22 reviews. It has been downloaded 182K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.2+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 252% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: The Events Calendar.
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.
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The core free version of Sugar Calendar provides a comprehensive toolkit for creating a functional event calendar and managing basic…
I have tried several different calendar plugins (free and paid) and have come to the conclusion that there just isn’t one that is easily configurable to my clients needs and easy to customize (including formatting). So far this one (paid) is working well. I had one particular issue that only occurred on 1 of the 3 sites I installed it on (all three were built the same way), but their support kept at it, found the conflict, and fixed it for me. I commend them for that and keeping me updated on the status.
Support was ace but code and functionality are crap, felt like a beta tester installing and working with the paid version. Markup also rubbish. Since switched to Simple Calendar Free version and am much happier with results. I was basically suckered by the review on WPBeginner, which appears to be an affiliated company (DOH!) so cannot by definition be trusted and independent 😉
love the simplicity of this plugin. Easy with Elementor. And the Support is awesome and very helpfull, if you are in need!
I was just looking for a simple calendar to display a short events list inside a sidebar and a calendar on a single page. This plugin accomplishes this exactly as expected and, unlike the other many calendar plugins, this one provides two blocks which include the events list and also the calendar optically into the themes look.
The plugin works great, and the support crew is very responsive.
| WordPress | 6.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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