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Sugar Calendar

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Velocity5.0

Event management and calendar plugin for WordPress

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The changelog turned into a how-to blog — capability news now arrives disguised as tutorials.

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◆Current state
Sugar Calendar has stopped publishing version posts. The last three entries read as tutorials — building event pages in Elementor, setting tiered ticket prices for a single event, attaching a Zoom meeting without copying links by hand — where earlier entries were explicit 3.x release announcements. The bodies are truncated teasers, so what shipped versus what was always possible is not stated outright.
◆Where it's heading
Two things are moving at once. The product is filling in the integration surface an events plugin needs — page builder, video conferencing, flexible ticket pricing — and the communication has shifted from version-led to problem-led. That makes the feed better for prospective buyers and worse as a changelog: the release boundary is now invisible.
◆Prediction
Expect more problem-framed posts covering individual capabilities rather than a numbered 3.8 announcement. These entries do not say whether the Elementor and Zoom work ships as core or as paid add-ons, so the packaging is unclear.

◆Recent moves

  1. 8d ago

    Design Your Event Pages in Elementor

    Event pages become designable in Elementor rather than styled one at a time or left to plugin defaults. It closes the visual gap between event pages and the rest of an Elementor-built site, which is the recurring complaint this feed keeps addressing.

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  2. 15d ago

    Set Different Ticket Prices for One Event

    Multiple price points for one event — early-bird versus at-the-door, cheap seats versus front table. This extends ticketing from a single-price transaction to something closer to real event pricing.

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  3. 22d ago

    Add a Zoom Meeting to Any Event Without the Link-Juggling

    Zoom meetings attach directly to an event instead of being created separately and pasted in. A small operational fix that removes a step organizers repeat for every online event.

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  4. 1y ago

    Sugar Calendar 3.7: Event Management Just Got Easier – RSVPs, Tags, Speakers and More

    The 3.7 release bundled RSVPs, tags, and speakers — the last version-numbered announcement in the feed. It marks the point where the product moved past scheduling into attendee and program management.

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  5. 1y ago

    Introducing Sugar Calendar 3.6 – Enhanced Recurring Events & More Flexible Payment Options

    3.6 made recurring series editable per-instance and widened Stripe payment options alongside external calendar imports. Editing one occurrence without breaking the series is the change organizers feel most.

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  6. 1y ago

    Introducing Sugar Calendar 3.5 – The Smarter Way to Manage Event Venues

    3.5 introduced reusable venues with maps and dedicated pages, turning locations into first-class records instead of free text repeated per event. It set up the entity-modeling direction the later releases build on.

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