Five Calendar Plugins to Rock Your Joomla World

Joomla administrators often add plugins to customize their content management system (CMS) website. One such plugin, a calendar. While not all websites need to display calendars, some administrators need this option, as they might want to display important dates, special events or availability of a certain service on a specific date. To help meet this need, there are many Joomla calendar plugin options to choose from, each with unique features and customizable viewable options.

1 – Really Simple Calendar
This plugin is a very basic Joomla calendar  and easy to install (pretty much plug-n-play). Additional features allow you to set the width of the module. All you need is to install the plugin and activate it.
2 – JTAG Calendar
For administrators who need a more complex calendar with a lot of features, then JTAG is a great choice. The calendar allows for social bookmarks using social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and more. It also offers special SMS alerts sent to a user’s phone, event commenting, Google maps integration and gravatar integration. This is known as one of the most socially aware calendar plugins currently available for Joomla users.
3 – Event List
Event List is an event plugin allowing administrators to set events for the community, group or company. It offers several customized features that make planning events easier to place and view. Additional features allow visitors to register, get map services and submit new events.
4 – Minicalendar
If you’re simply looking for a calendar that looks good on your blog or website then the minicalendar plugin works well. It displays a simple, small calendar in any module you want. Small configuration changes allow you to display a certain month and day, or show a certain number of months within rows or columns.
5 – Gcalendar
This integrates with your Google Calendar. It syncs with Google calendar and displays upcoming events you have, including appointments, reservations, shows or conferences.
These are just a few of the calendar plugin options for Joomla. There are many more available with different styles, looks and functioning features. If you are unsure of what you really want you may want to download and install a few options to see which best fits with your website style and needs.