5 jQuery Calendar Plugins that can be used on Websites

Online calendars can be very useful to share and publish your schedules. One of the most common requests I receive from my jQuery readers is for a good, free-to-use, jQuery Calendar control, similar to the Google Calendar, which can be added to a website or blog.

Here are some of the freely available jQuery Calendar plugins, worth trying out. Please note that this post is about jQuery Calendar Plugins and not DatePicker controls.

jQuery Full Calendar Plugin

FullCalendar is a jQuery plugin that provides a full-sized, drag & drop calendar. It uses AJAX to fetch events on-the-fly for each month and is easily configured to use your own feed format (an extension is provided for Google Calendar). It is visually customizable and exposes hooks for user-triggered events (like clicking or dragging an event). Supports jQuery UI Themes.

See a Demo

Latest Version – FullCalendar 1.4.6 (May 31st, 2010)


jQuery Frontier Calendar

The jQuery Frontier Calendar is a full month calendar jQuery plugin that looks like Google Calendar. Supports drag-and-drop on agenda items, and iCal VEVENT import. Customizable style via CSS file.

Latest Version - jQueryFrontierCalendar 1.3.1 (June 23rd, 2010)


jQuery Event Calendar Plugin

wdCalendar is a jQuery based Google calendar clone. It cover most Google calendar features. You can integrate it with a database and can have daily, weekly or monthly views. Events can be created, updated or removed by using drag & drop operations.

See a Demo

Latest Version - wdCalendar


jQuery Week Calendar

The jquery-week-calendar plugin provides a simple and flexible way of including a weekly calendar in your application. It is built on top of jquery and jquery ui and is inspired by other online weekly calendars such as Google calendar. Currently this project is not being maintained, but contains a lot of features out-of-the-box for you to tweak.

See a Demo

Latest Version - jquery-weekcalendar-1.2.2


jQuery iCal-like Calendar

Although not like the Google Calendar, I thought this iPhone-like calendar deserves a mention here. The iCal-like calendar, created by Stefano Verna is created using only CSS and jQuery. The calendar has a relatively plain HTML structure and also contains a lightweight Coda-like effect for events description popups.

See a Demo

Latest Version – iCal-like-calendar


So the next time you are looking out for a free jQuery Calendar plugin for your website, I hope this post will help you find one.

You can also check my posts on the jQuery UI DatePicker

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