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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Coach
Posted 391 days ago 29Thanks for a very useful post – fyi there are also appointment scheduling tools like book fresh and appointy plugins for wordpress that provide a great user interface – both a pretty pricey though. Going to try and set up something with one of the options above instead
Thanks again!
arvind
Posted 413 days ago 27What’s needed for my ‘too busy’ clients is a calendar that allows emailed-in events. They want to email in their posts, and a calendar that allows import, export or mail-in would be ideal. I’ll take a closer look at the iCal calendars. Perhaps they have these features.
dave
Posted 448 days ago 26Hi, I am looking for a plain ol simple calender that i can use on my site, all i need it to do is let me creat events myself in a way that i don’t want them as blogs or posts, just something that i can show events on the calendar that is a widget, there probably is something out there allready but i cant seem to find it.
thanks in advance for any help
Dave
anmari
Posted 455 days ago 23I’ve been told that my event calendar plugin is one of the best out there.
http://icalevents.anmari.com/testimonials/
It addresses many of the questions that people have raised above.
It also allows recurring entries as per ics spec, produces ics feeds at various levels (even down to individual event ics) timezones, custom posts, locations, etc
1WD Editorial
Posted 454 days ago 24Thanks for excellent addition Anmari.
tangotango
Posted 466 days ago 22Booking calendar seems awesome but I’m looking for a freebie. Anyone knows of a similar service? I need to be able to manage bookings at particular times of the day (not possible with the standard version)
Bill Scheider
Posted 513 days ago 21Thanks so much for this review. The Events Calendar (#3) looks very promising. I’ve been looking quite a while for an elegant and flexible event/calendar solution for WordPress and hadn’t come across this one yet.
I’ll be setting that up and playing with it tomorrow!
Bill
Brett Widmann
Posted 522 days ago 20These are really nice! One of these will be perfect for the project im doing.
Patrick McDonough
Posted 546 days ago 19I need a calendar of future events that would display an image much like the “Calendar Archive” plug in above but for future events not past events. Anyone have an idea on where I might find that for WordPress 3.01?
Bob
Posted 582 days ago 18what about a facebook events – wordpress events plugin integration? any way would work – meaning either you publish and event and there is way to import it semi-automaticaly on facebook – or even better – you create it and manage it on facebook and it’s automatically displayed in your wordpress blog in the appropiate events page…
Adonna @ The Author Pro
Posted 405 days ago 28I agree Bob. A Facebook events plugin for WordPress would be wonderfully useful. You could add an event and the details and it would push the content to the homepage without having to manual re-enter data (again!).
With the advent of multiple social hubs online, updating information in multiple locations is becoming a real problem and time drain. I assist published authors with PR and book marketing support online and I need a really good calendar that can list their events in a simple list format, as well as allow you to click on the event title and see more information (such as a blog post that isn’t shown anywhere else on the site). An additional feature to have the event details emailed to the site visitor at a later date would also be great. If all else fails, I guess that I can sit down at the drawing board and create / program one of my own.
Thanks for the plugin list. I found it very helpful and informative to see what’s currently out there.
Adonna from The Author Pro
Nigel Parry
Posted 595 days ago 17The Events Calendar doesn’t support a shortcode, so you can’t embed it in a page. Its documentation doesn’t even tell you how to set it up. Do you have to create a category and post events there? Doesn’t say. Is there a URL that the events calendar can be seen at? Doesn’t say. Very frustrating. Perhaps you could post instructions about getting it working.
Whitney
Posted 631 days ago 15I am using your widget “The Events Calendar” on my web page. I want to have my week laid out from Sunday- Saturday, not Mon- Sun as it appears on my website. How do I make this change?
Nigel Parry
Posted 595 days ago 16@Whitney: My guess is that it draws this from WordPress’ Settings > General panel. Look there. Right at the bottom it says “Week Starts On…”
bpdir
Posted 698 days ago 14This looks really good, I’ve been looking for a better WP calendar for one of my sites and I think I might have just found it right here! :)
graphicbeacon
Posted 706 days ago 13Thanks for that. A previous one I was using seemed that the developers stopped working on it and does not work with wordpress 2.9. I am excited that 3.0 is finally out.
Michael Miksis
Posted 713 days ago 12Anyone know of a multi-month iCal plug in? I would love to be able to add my calendar from HomeAwayConnect.com (a vacation rental listing service). They own VRBO.com, Cyberrentals.com, A1Rental.com, VacationRental.com and serveral more. They have the ability to export the reservation calendar to Google Calendars (ical) but I have not found a way to display more than one month. With visitors looking 3-6 months out it doesn’t work too well to show only one month.
with 10′s of thousands of listings I would expect pretty good demand from owners who also have there own websites.
Thanks
Mike
University View House
anmari
Posted 365 days ago 31@Mike
something like this perhaps?
http://test.icalevents.com/calendar-of-all-events/multi-month-availability/
if using ics files, then this can be used with free version from wordpress amr-ical-events-list. this multimonth version (4) will be there in a day or so – just wrapping up testing – this is test version at test/demo site.
Seth
Posted 716 days ago 11We’ve also released a calendar plugin for WordPress recently which you may want to look at. The idea was to make something simple, elegant and easy to use. Check it out and let me know what you think: http://www.kinocreative.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/kino-events-calendar-plugin-for-wordpress/
dattai
Posted 736 days ago 10Great !
Thanks a lot
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Kevin Lanteri
Posted 736 days ago 9Hi, nice list :)
i’ve just released a new one that could fit in there : iCal Events Manager :
it’s an adaptation of the jQuery iCal by stefano verna to fit all wordpress events need, be sure to give it a try !
http://deliverthemessage.net/tweet/ical-wordpress-plugin/
cheers
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EGA
Posted 766 days ago 8There is missing a really good one, Easy PHP Calendar. It’s not a plugin for WP but it does bring an easy way to be integrated into WordPress. Check http://www.easyphpcalendar.com/
JenOhsome
Posted 771 days ago 7I’ve used the Booking Calendar for two sportfishing charter sites & it’s fantastic. Easy to setup and manage. You can see it in action at http://www.triple000s.com
Great post by the way – I’ll def. be referencing it in the future.
Monica
Posted 449 days ago 25Jen – is this the standard Booking Calendar (freebie)? Or one of the other versions. Thnx. Looks great, BTW.
Adal Design
Posted 773 days ago 6Awesome! I was looking for good WP calendar apps just earlier this week.
THXTHXTHX
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Jordan Walker
Posted 773 days ago 5Very helpful resource for calendars.
DjaVupixel
Posted 774 days ago 4Excellent article. I have to try some because this can be handy…
thanks
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Ken
Posted 775 days ago 3I did a search for plugins when a client who gives retreats asked to have one on her homepage. (Calendars are a great feature for sites. Surprised I have not had more requests.) Calendars get complicated. They are not as straight forward as I had thought. We are using #2 Calendar: http://thepastures.net in the footer. Instructions and support could be improved. I will bookmark this post and review the next time. Many thanks.
Lena Tailor
Posted 776 days ago 2Nice list Srikanth.. Definitely need to bookmark this.
Nikunj
Posted 776 days ago 1Booking calendar plug-in is great. It has lots of functionality perfect for hotel website
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