Sugar Calendar - Frontend Event Submissions v1.0

Sugar Calendar - Frontend Event Submissions is an add-on for the Sugar Calendar plugin that allows website visitors and community members to submit events directly from your website's frontend. This extension transforms your calendar from a display-only tool into a collaborative platform where users can contribute events without requiring backend access or administrative privileges.

Key Features

• Frontend Submission Forms - Customizable forms that allow visitors to submit new events directly from your website without accessing the WordPress dashboard
• User Permissions Control - Set granular permissions to determine which user roles can submit events and manage their submissions
• Event Moderation - Review and approve submitted events before they appear on your calendar to maintain content quality and relevance
• Custom Fields Support - Add custom fields to submission forms to collect additional information specific to your event types
• Email Notifications - Automatically notify administrators and event submitters about submission status changes and approvals
• Duplicate Prevention - Built-in tools to help prevent duplicate event submissions and manage similar submissions
• User Event Management - Allow submitters to view, edit, and manage their own submitted events from the frontend
• Conditional Logic - Show or hide form fields based on user selections to create dynamic submission experiences
• Integration with Sugar Calendar - Seamlessly works with Sugar Calendar's existing features, categories, and event management system
• Spam Protection - Includes built-in protections against spam submissions and malicious content

Best For

This add-on is ideal for community websites, event directories, local business listings, and organizations that want to crowdsource event information from their audience. It works well for community calendars, conference websites, meetup platforms, and any site where multiple contributors need to add events without direct WordPress access. Organizations looking to build engaged communities around event discovery and sharing will benefit from enabling their users to actively participate in calendar content creation.