Title: Enhanced-Calendar Author: Mike Walsh Published: December 11, 2010 Last modified: December 12, 2010 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/enhanced-calendar.svg) # Enhanced-Calendar By [Mike Walsh](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mpwalsh8/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/enhanced-calendar.0.0.7.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-calendar/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-calendar/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-calendar/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-calendar/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/enhanced-calendar/) ## Description Enhanced-Calendar ([previously known as Calendar-Plus](http://michaelwalsh.org/blog/2010/12/08/need-to-rename-calendar-plus/)) enhances [ Kieran O’Shea’s Calendar plugin by removing several limitations and adding the ability to instantiate the calendar in a sidebar widget. Enhanced-Calendar requires the original [Calendar plugin](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/calendar/) to be installed and activated. Enhanced-Calendar introduces a proper shortcode which can also be used to display the calendar in a sidebar by using the [Sidebar Shortcode plugin](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-shortcodes/). ### Usage Usage of Enhanced-Calendar is primarily driven by shortcodes. Enhanced-Calendar does not change the way in which Calendar adds and manages calendar events. The[ calendar] shortcode has several arguments. You could create a post that contains the following content to see how the various options affect the Calendar output: ``` [calendar] [calendar weekday=1] [calendar weekday=3 descriptions='off'] [calendar dateswitcher='off'] [calendar weekday=3 dateswitcher='off' descriptions='off'] ``` ### Styling Enhanced-Calendar moves the CSS styling from a plugin setting which is stored in the database to a separate CSS file which makes it easy to style Calendar with your own WordPress theme. The default CSS file shipped with Enhanced-Calendar is the same as the default settings from the Calendar plugin. You can see Enhanced-Calendar in action on the [CASL Shocks web site](http://www.caslshocks.org). ## Installation To install Enhanced-Calendar, download it, unzip it, upload it to your WordPress installation and activate like a standard plugin. 1. Upload `enhanced-calendar` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate Enhanced-Calendar through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress ## FAQ Does this plugin replace the Calendar plugin? No it does not. It “enhances” the Calendar plugin hence the name. The Enhanced-Calendar plugin requires the original Calendar plugin to be installed and be active. Management of calendar events continues to be done using the Calendar plugin. Enhanced-Calendar provides a way to present the calendar differently and more control over styling it as part of a theme. How did you achieve the styling on the CASL Shocks web site? By default Enhanced-Calendar uses the same CSS as calendar but it is loaded via a style sheet included with the plugin instead of from the database plugin option setting which is the standard plugin operation. By using style sheets, the CSS can be styled as part of the theme which is exactly what I have done for styling the Calendar on the [CASL Shocks](http://www.caslshocksorg) web site. The calendar is styled by adding the following CSS to my theme CSS file: ``` /* * Calendar styling * */ .calendar-heading { background-color: #EFEFEF !important; } .current-day { background-color: #EFEFEF !important; } .normal-day-heading, .weekend-heading, .calendar-date-switcher { background-color: #EFEFEF !important; } .current-day, .day-with-date, .day-without-date { /* width: 30px !important; height: 50px !important; */ overflow: hidden; } .events { background: url(../images/soccer/SoccerBallSidebar.png) no-repeat -10px 115%; } .event-dagger { display: inline !important; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.2em; } .kjo-link { display: none !important; } .widget_calendar_upcoming, .widget_calendar_today { border-top: 0px; padding-top: 10px; } .widget_calendar_upcoming ul li, .widget_calendar_today ul li { border-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; } .widget_calendar_upcoming ul li a, .widget_calendar_today ul li a { padding: 0.3em 0em; } ``` ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Enhanced-Calendar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Mike Walsh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mpwalsh8/) [Translate “Enhanced-Calendar” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/enhanced-calendar) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/enhanced-calendar/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/enhanced-calendar/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/enhanced-calendar/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/enhanced-calendar/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.0.1 * First release as “Calendar-Plus”. #### 0.0.2 * Minor jQuery fixes to addresses widget display issues. #### 0.0.3 * Renamed Enhanced-Calendar * Added to WordPress plugin repository #### 0.0.4 * ReadMe.txt content and cleanup. #### 0.0.5 * More ReadMe.txt content and cleanup. #### 0.0.6 * Yet more ReadMe.txt content and cleanup. #### 0.0.7 * Fixed CSS issues introduced by renaming plugin. ## Meta * Version **0.0.7** * Last updated **15 years ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 2.9 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.0.5** * Tag * [calendar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/calendar/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-calendar/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/enhanced-calendar/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/enhanced-calendar/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Mike Walsh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mpwalsh8/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/enhanced-calendar/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ESP5FSYD3GXRJ)