Paul Newman

A simple but effective Calendar plugin for WordPress that allows you to manage your events and appointments and display them to the world on your website. The Plus is that Two seperate calendars may be used. Also a smaller displayed version of the Calendar to better fit into page or post content. 
This can be used as a drop-in replacement for the original Calendar plguin.
Features:
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<li>Monthly view of events</li>
<li>Mouse-over details for each event</li>
<li>Events can have a timestamp (optional)</li>
<li>Events can display their author (optional)</li>
<li>Events can span more than one day</li>
<li>Multiple events per day possible</li>
<li>Events can repeat on a weekly, monthly (set numerical day), monthly (set textual day) or yearly basis</li>
<li>Repeats can occur indefinitely or a limited number of times</li>
<li>Easy to use events manager in admin dashboard</li>
<li>Sidebar function/Widget to show todays events</li>
<li>Sidebar function/Widget to show upcoming events</li>
<li>Lists of todays events can be displayed in posts or pages</li>
<li>Lists of upcoming events can be displayed in posts or pages</li>
<li>Comprehensive options panel for admin</li>
<li>Modifiable CSS using the options panel</li>
<li>Optional drop down boxes to quickly change month and year</li>
<li>User groups other than admin can be permitted to manage events</li>
<li>Events can be placed into categories</li>
<li>A calendar of events for just one of more categories can be displayed</li>
<li>Categories system can be switched on or off</li>
<li>Pop up javascript calendars help the choosing of dates</li>
<li>Events can be links pointing to a location of your choice</li>
<li>Full internationalisation is possible</li>
<li>Comaptible with WordPress MU</li>
<li>Two seperate Calendars can be setup and used</li>
<li>Calendar can be full-size or small size to fit into page or post content</li>
<li>Drop in replacement for original Calendar plugin</li>
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Calendar Plus

A simple Calendar plugin for WordPress that allows 2 seperate calendars. This can be used as a drop-in replacement for the original Calendar plugin.

Jeremy B. Shapiro

Want to always have the next date from a list displayed on a page of your site? Nextdate picks the next upcoming date from your list and displays it in the format you like!
Perhaps you have a recurring monthly meeting or event and you want to always display the next date to keep the page current.
Use the <code>[nextdate]</code> shortcode with a list of dates to get the next date from the list.
The <code>dates</code> parameter is required and should include a comma separated list of valid dates in any format that <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP will recognize</a>, for example <code>5/15/2011, 2012-01-15, 21.9.2013, Tuesday, next Thursday</code>
You can also specify a <code>default</code> value like <code>[nextdate dates="5/15/1993, 7/19/2008" default="No upcoming party" /]</code> to display a default value when none of the dates are in the future.
You can optionally specify a <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP friendly date format</a>, for example <code>[nextdate dates="next Thursday" format="l, F jS" /]</code> to format the date. By default, dates are returned back in the <code>F j, Y</code> format, i.e. <code>September 18, 2013</code>.
For an example of usage, see how the <a href="https://bayareamastermind.com/events/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bay Area Mastermind</a> lists their next upcoming event dates.

Next Date

This plugin allows you to display the next date from a list of dates with the [nextdate] shortcode.

Calendar Plus vs Next Date