Description: A tutorial for adding your public Google Calendar on your blog. A reader asked about how to put a calendar on her blog so that her prospective clients can see if she is available for appointments.
I recommended Google Calendar because it is a free, simple, yet powerful web based calendar. Moreover, you can easily embed Google Calendar on your Blog.
Share your Google Calendar
Before you can add your Google Calendar on your website, you need to enable the calendar’s public access.
1. Under “Calendars” in the left column, click on the down-arrow next to the calendar you want to make it public.
2. Select “Share this calendar”.
3. In the “Share with everyone” section, there are three options:
I. “Do not share with everyone”
II. “Share all information on this calendar with everyone”
III. “Share only my free / busy information (hide details)”
Since we want to share the calendar, we can choose either “Share all information…” or “Share only free / busy information”. In this example, I use “Share only my free / busy information”.
4. Click “Save” button to save your new setting. Now your calendar is shared.
Note: You get a Google Calendar button after sharing you calendar. We may ignore it, because we want to put calendar on our website, not a button link.
Next, we want to put the shared calendar on our website.
Get Google Calendar HTML code
Since we have already chose to shared the calendar, now we need to grab the HTML code of the Google Calendar.
1. Under “Calendars” in the left column, click on the down-arrow next to the shared calendar.
2. Select “Calendar settings”
4. You get a popup message with your calendar’s public address.
6. A new page titled “Google Embeddable Calendar Helper” is opened. From there, you may choose your calendar options such as calendar title, controls, size, and background color.
7. Calendar’s HTML code is given under the calendar options. On the bottom of the page is the preview of your calendar.
8. Copy and paste the HTML code into your Blog. You’re done!
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