Jared Atchison

Gregor Capuder

Ivan Hryhorenko

Alexander Sakal

<p>We believe appointment booking should be simple! Sugar Calendar Bookings is a powerful yet lightweight <strong>appointment management</strong> plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to create <strong>booking systems</strong>, manage customer appointments, and process payments, without the bloat.</p>
<p>With Sugar Calendar Bookings, you get just the features you need for handling appointments of all types without a complicated setup or slow interface. You can easily manage in-person and virtual appointments with just a few clicks.</p>
<h3>Key Features at a Glance</h3>
<p>Sugar Calendar Bookings provides a comprehensive toolkit for creating a functional booking system and managing basic appointment scheduling right away. It’s the perfect starting point for straightforward appointment management.</p>
<h3>Frontend Booking Forms</h3>
<p>Seamlessly integrate booking forms anywhere on your site. Dedicated Booking Form block for the Gutenberg editor makes adding your booking system to pages, posts, or sidebars incredibly simple. Shortcode [sugar_calendar_bookings_form] is also available for other editors and page builders.</p>
<h3>Admin Calendar View</h3>
<p>Manage your appointments efficiently with a comprehensive admin calendar interface. View all appointments in a clean, organized calendar layout within your WordPress dashboard.</p>
<p>Administrators can easily switch between month, week, or day views for optimal appointment management. The admin calendar provides a complete overview of your booking schedule.</p>
<h3>Location Management</h3>
<p>Support both in-person and online appointments with flexible location management. For in-person appointments, add physical addresses. For online appointments, configure meeting links and video conferencing platforms.</p>
<h3>Customer Management & Profiles</h3>
<p>Keep track of customers and their booking history in your WordPress dashboard. For each appointment, you can view customer details, booking history, and preferences.</p>
<h3>Modern, Lightweight Design</h3>
<p>Sugar Calendar Bookings is optimized for speed and efficiency, ensuring it won’t slow down your site. The admin interface is intuitive and beautifully designed, making appointment management a breeze.</p>


Sugar Calendar Bookings Scheduling Appointments Lite

A powerful yet lightweight appointment booking plugin for WordPress. Manage services, customers, and appointments with ease.

Automattic

Matt Mullenweg

Peter Westwood

Michael Adams (mdawaffe)

Ryan Boren

Andy Skelton

Barry

vnsavage

WordPress VIP

<p>HyperDB is a very advanced database class that replaces a few of the WordPress built-in database functions. The main differences are:<br />
* HyperDB can be connect to an arbitrary number of database servers,<br />
* HyperDB inspects each query to determine the appropriate database.</p>
<p>It supports:</p>
<ul>
<li>Read and write servers (replication)</li>
<li>Configurable priority for reading and writing</li>
<li>Local and remote datacenters</li>
<li>Private and public networks</li>
<li>Different tables on different databases/hosts</li>
<li>Smart post-write master reads</li>
<li>Failover for downed host</li>
<li>Advanced statistics for profiling</li>
<li>WordPress Multisite</li>
</ul>
<p>It is based on the code currently used in production on WordPress.com with many MySQL servers spanning multiple datacenters.</p>


HyperDB

HyperDB is a amazing feature.


	You want to make two websites share a (user) table? OK!
	You want to make a website use two databases so we can create a development workflow to "deploy" content in the same time we persist production data? OK!
	And so on...


Of course is unnecessary to talk about how it can help in scaling... Just perfect.


It's just amazing!

This plugin works very well with AWS RDS and read replica.

Works very well with RDS and read Replica

Maybe this plugin is not so popular because many WordPress users are just not technical users, but I truly glad the plugin is here, and hopefully the WordPress team still always have a time to maintenance this :)

Kudos! 

A hidden gem

HyperDB is an advanced database class that supports replication, failover, load balancing, and partitioning.

Sugar Calendar Bookings Scheduling Appointments Lite vs HyperDB