I like the simplicity and functionality of the Calendar plugin from Kieran O’Shea. Out of the box it was a bit hard to read for my aging eyes though. I wanted the calendar on its own “Page” but with my fixed-width 2 column theme it appeared “squashed”.

I decided to make a template for the calendar page removing the side bar. As I have navigation in the header this still left my visitors a way back to any of my main pages. The result was much easier to read. A few tweaks to font sizing and colors to match it to my theme and it worked out fine.

I was able to set up recurring events and single events quite quickly. One feature I will look for in the future is the ability to temporarily “exclude” a date from the recurring schedule on a one-time basis to meet “real life” situations when things may be cancelled that day.

As all the events I set up begin with the new year it can be viewed here American Legion Post 79 after Jan 1, 2010 as it is currently saved as a draft page.

Overall I’m very pleased with this plugin.

Give it a go if you need a calendar.

Lou