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.

Jason Hendriks

Calculates dates and relative dates dynamically in your posts and pages. For example:
<blockquote>
Our church’s next service is on Mar 21/15
<code>[date format="M d/Y" time="this Sunday"]</code>
</blockquote>
Add an always up-to-date copyright notice, or the date of your next monthly poker game.
See <a href="http://programmer.jasonhendriks.com/dynamic-dates/dynamic-dates-examples/" rel="nofollow ugc">examples on my website</a>. See the FAQ for instructions on use.
<h3>* What’s New for v2 *</h3>
<ul>
<li>Now supporting the local WordPress timezone, user-specified timezones, and user-specified languages!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>PHP 5.2 for user-specified timezones or PHP 5.3 with the International extension for user-specified languages.</li>
</ul>

Dynamic Dates

Calculate dates ('next Sunday') and relative dates ('December 25th two years from now') in your posts and pages.

Simple Shortcode Calendar vs Dynamic Dates