One of the most common requests from clients when it comes to WordPress personalization is to add a basic event calendar to their website. Finding a good place to position a big table like a calendar within your WordPress template is always a tough work and it cant be accomplish without a plugin. In this article we have compiled a list of 15 Best jQuery Calendar Plugins which you should try place a calendar to your websites. Following jQuery calendar plugins are easy to use and are capable of displaying multi-functional calendar on your websites to deliver better experience to your website users.
1. Tiva Events Calendar
Tiva Events Calendar is plugin which help you to display all events on calendar. It is very flexible and easy to install and integrate into your website. You can create events in json file or feed from your database via php file (Ajax).
With nice popup, user can quick-view event for each day, view event list and event detail. Your events will be displayed lively and logically. There are 2 layouts for your choice : full and compact.
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2. tinyDatePicker and Calendar
This 5KB (gZip; 12.5KB minified) small date/time picker provides a lot of hooks for developers to write calendars, agendas, booking systems, plugins, etc. This is not only a picker but a set of modules that can be used to build a date/agenda based app. The flexibility of this tool makes integration of bootstrap or other frameworks easy.
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3. GraspSchedule.js
GraspSchedule.js is a simple jQuery calendar plugin used to visualize complex schedules & events loading from JSON data, a little similar to the timeline or event calendar.
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4. jQuery Simple Event Calendar
jQuery Simple Event Calendar make it easier for you to create an event calendar, datepicker or whatever you want with jQuery.
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5. Simple Events Calendar JS
This is simple jQuery calendar plugin which allows you to display calendars and events on your websites. This plugin comes with methods, options, events, language support, recurring events, and lots of customization options.
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6. wsCalendar
The wsCalendar is a jQuery plugin that provides datepicking features. It is easy to use and includes bunch of useful functions and it is compatible with all major browsers.
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7. Dzs jQuery Mini Events Calendar
This is easy to install jQuery calendar plugin which is simple to setup and includes dzs tooltip in it. This plugin comes with two skins, responsive, browser compatible and html supported.
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8. Bootstrap Calendar
Bootstrap Calendar is a full view calendar with year, month, week and day views based on templates with Bootstrap.
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9. CLNDR.js
CLNDR is a jQuery plugin for creating calendars. Unlike most calendar plugins, this one doesn’t generate markup. Instead you provide an Underscore.js HTML template and in return CLNDR gives you a wealth of data to use within it. CLNDR is free of opinions about markup and style: it is the high-speed chassis on which you build the vehicle of your dreams.
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10. AddToCalendar
AddToCalendar is a jQuery plugin. This plugin provides a simple and flexible way for your users to add your events to their calendars. It has designed for event/seminar organizer to add an “Add to Calendar” button to their website and application. This jQuery calendar plugin has several handy features like – Multiple Providers, Google Calendar, Outlook (online), Yahoo Calendar and iCalendar (.ics) and easy to setup and integrate in website or application.
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11. Regal Calendar
Regal Calendar is another cool jQuery calendar plugin which is a component that allows you make known your events every day, let your visitors see when your event starts, the location via google maps and confirm their attendance via Twitter.
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12. jQuery Verbose Calendar
jQuery Verbose Calendar is a plugin for creating a calendar that displays the whole months and days of a year at the same time. Once loaded, it auto-scrolls to “today” and displays the day names when hovered to any date in a tooltip.
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13. Caleran – Date Range Picker
Caleran is a Date Range Picker plugin, built using jQuery and moment.js libraries. It can also be used as a single date picker besides the range selection feature. Can be shown inline or used as a dropdown beside an input.
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14. Jalendar 2
Jalendar2 is a premium calendar plugin pack that created with jQuery javascript library. Jalendar offers you 4 different calendar options. You can list your events, you can link to days, you can use Jalendar Selector for date selecting and you can use Jalendar Range for range selecting on calendar.
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15. Evandar
It is one of the best jQuery calendar plugin built using jQuery and moment.js libraries. It has a calendar which you can easily see the days containing events, and an event selection panel. Event Panel can be displayed as a list or as a schedule.
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Wrapping Up
So, these were some of the best jQuery calendar plugins which you can use for your sites to create event, appointment, schedule like features. Let us know which one is your favourite from above list, we would love to hear from you.
