Advanced Calendar Plugins For WordPress
Srikanth ADAre you looking some intriguing calendar plugins for your WordPress based blog? Following is a collection of some of the best calendar plugins for WordPress that could suit your needs and maybe this is exactly what you need for your blog now!
Each plugin serves a unique purpose and can be customized to your specific needs so read carefully and maybe you will make your blog even more handier and powerful with simple use of plugin!
1. Booking Calendar
This WordPress plugin adds an online booking service to your web site. Your site visitors can check availability of resources like hotel rooms, cars, equipment etc., and make reservations for one or more days and pay online.
If you are a freelancer, this plugin would be of great use as your clients can make an appointment, booking or register for participation in events from anywhere at any time. Booking Calendar plugin is extremely easy to use and very flexible.
It features email notifications for administrator and site visitors, easy integration into posts/pages, using TinyMCE button, booking calendar widget, validation of required form fields and email field and has multi language support.
2. Calendar
An easy to use calendar plugin for WordPress. Calender plugin enables you to manage your events and appointments and display them on your website or blog.
It has useful features like monthly view of events, mouse-over details for each event, events in the calendar can span more than one day, multiple events per day possible and events can repeat on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis. The events can be easily managed in the admin dashboard.
Calendar plugin has optional drop down boxes to quickly change month and year. User groups other than admin can be permitted to manage events.
Furthermore, events can be placed into categories. Events can be links pointing to a location of your choice. This plugin is compatible with WordPress MU.
3. The Events Calender
This WordPress plugin enables you to quickly create and manage events using the post editor. It’s key features include Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined 1-click installation.
It sports an upcoming events widget and provides extensive template tags for customization. Includes support for venue, cost, address, start and end time, google maps link. This plugin is compatible with WordPress MU.
4. Events Manager
Events Manager is an effective event management plugin for WordPress. It supports recurring events, venues data, RSVP and maps. With Events Manager plugin, you can plan and publish your tour, or let people reserve spaces for your weekly meetings.
You can quickly add events list, calendars and description to your blog using a sidebar widget or short codes. Events Manager integrates with Google Maps and finds the location of your events, and accordingly displays a map. It also provides an RSS feed to keep your subscribers up-to-date about your events.
5. WordPress Event Calender
WordPress Event Calendar for WordPress enables you to create and manage multiple calendars with one time and recurring events.
6. Google Calendar Widget
This plugin adds a sidebar widget called ‘Google Calendar’ that can be dragged into your blog sidebar.
Multiple widgets can be used on the same page, each referring to a unique feed. Each widget can be configured with a URL of the calendar feed, a title, and the number of agenda items to be displayed.
7. Editorial Calendar
The editorial calendar plugin enables WordPress administrators and editors to manage the dates for multiple posts at once.
You can see all of your posts in a calendar view and can arrange them via an easy drag and drop interface. This plugin would be of great use for blogs that plan posts in advance or takes contributions from multiple users. With this plugin, you can quickly drag and drop to change your post dates, edit and arrange post titles. Easily see the status of your posts.
8. Availability Calendar
Availability Calender plugin for WordPress displays booking availability on a year-by-year basis. It displays a full calendar year with booked dates highlighted.
9. Calendar Archives
Calendar Archives plugin for WordPress creates yearly calendar for your posts. You can create a new page for your calendar archive and insert the shortcode for calendar archives in the editor to load the page and view the calendar archives.
Each day of calendar will display first available photo from posts of that day in the background.
10. Ajax Calendar
AJAX Calendar, WordPress plugin lets you display an AJAXified calendar for your blog. This plugin enhances the standard calendar functionality by – allowing the asynchronous navigation of months, without updating the page, adding a drop-down list of post titles in each month and adding full caching support to reduce server load.
11. Events Calendar / Scheduler
The event calendar/scheduler plugin for WordPress, allows you to manage single or multiple user events through a dynamic interface. Users can add/modify/delete events on the fly and easily change events dates and time by simply dragging the event boxes.
You can set up different levels of permissions to users who will use the calendar. The scheduler can be configured to display events in Day, Week, or Month view, as well as in any custom view. The scheduler can be used as an ordinary calendar on a webpage to visualize some events/appointments, or as a calendar to display your blog posts archive.
If you know of any other useful calendar plugins for WordPress, do let us know in comments.
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Lost in Calendar Land!
Posted 9 days ago 63Forgive me for being dumb on this point, I am still new to WordPress, but I am looking for a calendar that allows someone to request a room via a form/page that can be easily authorized and automatically entered on the calendar. It would be nice to have a “Room Reservation Request” page that would allow anyone to request a room and that request would be sent to an event administrator (not a WordPress admin, but editor level access) to approve the request. On the approval screen, the data has already been entered but allow editing by the event admin so corrections/modifications (such as room requested, etc) can be made if needed. When the event admin approves the request, the event then shows up in the calendar. All of the calendar plugins I have seen so far seem to suggest they can do this, but the ones I have tested don’t seem to have an easy way of implementing it. I must be missing something, or did not setup the calendar plugins I have tried.
Any suggestions?
ahmadshorif
Posted 27 days ago 61I need a plugin that will show calender and when i click a date of the calender then it will show the post of the pages of the specific category.
But above plugin will helpful for my future task.
will
Posted 30 days ago 60thanks for doing your homework and posting links to the actual WP plugins :)
Wasim
Posted 40 days ago 57If the person want to insert the dates in free text field and will be validate from the formats that define by the system. Is it possible? From where I can find out the example where such thing is implemented?
Jeremiah
Posted 42 days ago 56This is a fantastic list! I personally am a big fan of the Booking calendar and Events calendar, both of them are VERY user friendly and with a few tweaks to the PHP – you can do just about anything. Modded for a Moving company, thank you!
Paris
Posted 56 days ago 55Thanks so much for this info! I couldn’t find the editorial calendar and this description was perfectly suited for what I needed. 30 seconds later and it’s up and running on my site! :)
Okera Ras I
Posted 75 days ago 54Thanks for this information. I used ‘Events Calendar’ and worked like a charm. Thank you again for the info
Ales
Posted 93 days ago 53Hi,
I just finished a minimalistic event calendar as a wordpress plugin:
http://premiumcoding.com/wordpress-minimalistic-calendar-events/
Sharon EJ
Posted 119 days ago 51This is extremely helpful, with a good mix of simple to complex event calendars. I have some customers who are less than very computer literate, so some of these simpler ones are just what I am looking for.
payday loans
Posted 124 days ago 50I’ve recently started a webcomic. After viewing some of my favorite other webcomic sites I noticed that they had a ? in every comic posted. My questions are: Do you have to Copyright a webcomic? Is it as simple as just typing in a ? into every comic or do I have to register something somewhere?.
Rik
Posted 141 days ago 49We’ve just released our plugin the All in One Event Calendar Plugin for WordPress. It combines most of these features into one complete package.
Kevin
Posted 104 days ago 52I recently installed the All in One Event Calendar Plugin for WordPress because of the features. For some reason though, I can’t seem to get the event date and time to update. I’m a newbie, but I thought even I could handle that. Is there some simple thing I might be missing?
carolyne
Posted 31 days ago 59i have the same problem. Did you ever get it solved?
Angelica
Posted 39 days ago 58I love this calendar!
Amy
Posted 23 days ago 62But no multiple person scheduling/reservations for classes with a size limit?
Agga Brown
Posted 146 days ago 48useless – you must add features that describe at least a minimum of what the plugins can do or, even more interesting, can NOT do.
Lisa
Posted 176 days ago 46I can’t tell how old this article is. :(
Ruben
Posted 200 days ago 44Very good list. There’s algo my Google calendar plugin which allows bloggers to embed a google calendar into a post or page by using a shortcode. It’s actually quite simple but it can be helpful, check it out here:
Google Calendar plugin for WordPress
Ken
Posted 206 days ago 43I need an event Calendar for my nursing home that allows me to print out the calendar from the web page. Any suggestions on which plug in does this the best. Thank you for any help.
bsinj
Posted 218 days ago 40Asking out of ignorance: do these plugins have to be contained within a “blog” or can they be accessed directly from an external link?
Rean John Uehara
Posted 218 days ago 41Hi, clicking on the plugin’s name of your choice will lead you to the download page. That or the image. :)
Lisa
Posted 176 days ago 45That’s not what they were asking. They were asking if it has to be on a blog page on their blog, or if it can be on a stand alone page
Dainis Graveris
Posted 151 days ago 47Each could be modified to get that work, but these are specifically WordPress plugins, not meant for using elsewhere.
Alexander Rodriguez
Posted 219 days ago 39I cant seem to find the booking calendar. does someone have the link. I clicked on the image and it just takes you to the first wordpress page.
Chris Quinn
Posted 220 days ago 38Exactly what I needed to see. A simple all-in-one place to review WordPress Calendar plug-ins. Thanks!
id meneo
Posted 220 days ago 37Awesome list! The 1st booking one seems very useful to me, thanks!
John
Posted 226 days ago 36Great compilation of calendar plugins! Which one of these do you recommend as the easiest to use?
bullshit
Posted 236 days ago 34where do i download the plugin?
Rean John Uehara
Posted 236 days ago 35Clicking the images then there should be a Download link.
Kevin
Posted 238 days ago 33wheres the other 30 comments?
Diogo15
Posted 217 days ago 42In page 1 of comments!!
Rob BeLL
Posted 258 days ago 32Great article, thank you – I’ve been looking for a suitable scheduling application for WordPress, and it looks like Booking Calendar might offer the features my client needs.
Jared Detroit
Posted 267 days ago 30The events manager is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the round-up. I was amazed how hard it was to find a good unbiased review of some products out there. It’s like Google decided to show all the low quality results at the beginning this time. Thanks again!