David Walsh

kamontander

Simple Shortcode Calendar lets you add an HTML-table-based monthly calendar to your posts and pages by entering a shortcode.
Features
<ul>
<li>Defaults to current month.</li>
<li>Choose any year+month combination.</li>
<li>Choose the first day of the week (Monday, Sunday or Saturday).</li>
<li>Enter custom names for months and days (for localization purposes).</li>
<li>Highlight important dates.</li>
</ul>
This plugin is based on a <a href="http://davidwalsh.name/php-calendar" rel="nofollow ugc">tutorial for building a calendar using PHP, XHTML, and CSS</a> by David Walsh.

Simple Shortcode Calendar

Once installed you have no settings, no options, and you don't even get a message telling you what the shortcode is, could be much much better.



Poor

Lets you create a monthly calendar by entering a shortcode. Calendar is output as an HTML table. You can also highlight certain dates.

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:
<ul>
<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>
</ul>

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.

Simple Shortcode Calendar vs Calendar Plus