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.

fullthrottledevelopment

Michael Torbert

A calendar plugin supporting multiple calendars, recurring events, and several different widgets / shortcodes. More info at http://calendar-plugin.com
Basic features include:
<ul>
<li>Recurring Events</li>
<li>Multiple Color Labels</li>
<li>Multiple Shortcodes and Widgets</li>
<li>Full sized calendar</li>
<li>Sexy Google Calendar UI</li>
<li>Events can be attached to any Post, Page, or custom post type</li>
<li>Premium support and custom development available</li>
<li><a href="http://calendar-plugin.com/quick-start-guide" rel="nofollow ugc">Quick Start Guide</a></li>
</ul>
Premium features available:
<ul>
<li>Display schedule information within post content</li>
<li>iCal feeds</li>
<li>SMART event ordering for WordPress queries</li>
<li>RSS 1.0 & 2.0, ATOM, and RDF feeds</li>
<li>Backup & Export FullThrottle Calendar data to a CSV file</li>
<li>Import FullThrottle Calendar data from a CSV file</li>
<li>Import Event Calendar 3 data from the WordPress database</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
FT Calendar 
Copyright (C) 2011 Full Throttle Development, LLC.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.

FT Calendar

A calendar plugin supporting multiple calendars, recurring events, and several different widgets / shortcodes. More info at http://calendar-plugin.com

Simple Shortcode Calendar vs FT Calendar