How to Add Google Calendar in Blogger

Are you thinking about adding a nice Calendar to your Blogger site? Google Calendar is the right choice, as it keeps track of your events, scheduling events, and organizing everything very intelligently. Adding a Google Calendar to your site makes it easier for you to display important events or upcoming giveaways for your visitors.  In this article, we will show you How to add a Google Calendar in Blogger.

What is Google Calendar?

Google Calendars is a web application that provides you amazing time-management facility. It keeps track of important events such as a birthday, upcoming events, your best friend's wedding and etc. So, you can never be late on any important events.

Similarly, time management is also important for a blogger, having a rough schedule makes it even tougher. With Google Calendar, you can keep track of events, things to do, goals to achieve and any daily activity that you don’t want to miss.

How to add Google Calendar to your Blogger site:

Step#1: Getting Started with Google Calendar:
Firstly you need to go to Google Calendar and login with your Google account. If you don't have an account, create a new one. After logging in, your Google calendar account is ready to assist you in remembering any important events.

Step#2: Creating New events in Google Calendar:
To create new events on Google Calender, click on the “Create” button located at the top left corner of your screen. You can see the below screenshot for assistance.

Now you need to provide a few details about your event such as title, the starting and ending time/date, location and description of the event. You can also add attachments, customize the color, and etc. In order to display the calendar to the public, you need to select visibility as “Public”. For more information you can see the screenshot below.

Once you are done with customizing your event, press the “Save” button located at the top left side of your screen.  If everything is carried out perfectly, you have successfully created an event on Google Calendar.

Step#3: Embed Google Calendar in Blogger:
Go to Google Calendar, click the gear button located at the top right side of your screen and select “Settings”.

From the top menu, click the link "Calendar". Now from the list of the names of calendars you have created ,select the one which you would like to embed on your site.

Look for "Embed the Calendar" section, copy the iFrame code.

Go to Blogger >> Layout >> Add a Gadget >> Add HTML/JavaScript >> paste the copied code in the text area to display the Google calendar.

We hope this tutorial has helped you in learning how to add a Google Calander in blogger. If you are already using this, please leave a comment below and let us know what are your experience with Google Calendar. If you like this tutorial, share it with your friends on facebook, Google+ or Twitter. 

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