For those that use my Calendar for WordPress you may be interested to know about a modification by “Ben in Campus” that has been written for it that enables several calendars to be made visible and have events added to them but using only one install of my plugin on one install of WordPress. It’s an innovative idea and one that a couple of people who have e-mailed me in the past asking for such a feature will most certainly find useful.

The same database table is used as previously but a column has been added allowing the storage to denote which calendar a particular event has input. Ben has also fixed a couple of bugs which have been on my to-do list for a little while, so they will be incorporated along with a credit to Ben in the next release, which is actually coming really rather soon so keep an eye out here and on wordpress.org

Yesterday I released my calendar plugin for WordPress to the WordPress community at large on wordpress.org and it has got off to a flying start. I have close to 100 downloads already and it hasn’t even been online for 24 hours yet. I’m very pleased at the positive comments I have been getting through e-mail, please keep sending your reports (good or bad) to me.

I’m hoping to release a few more of my hand-rolled WordPress add-ons soon and obviously eventually these will make it into the WordPress plugin directory also. It will be interesting to see how the likes of Now Playing, Uptime, Server Status and Contacts Database do in the wordpress.org hall of fame.

After a recent report of incompatability of my calendar plugin with MySQL 4.0 I have refactored the 4.1 and above only queries to be much more backwards compatable. If you previously had problems installing the calendar (strings of SQL errors at the top of every page) then you might like to try reinstalling it. You can grab your updated copy from my programming page

If you discover any more bugs please continue to report them. This plugin is actively supported and I will update any and all bugs or errors discovered.

Thanks to all who have already installed and started using my plugin and to those who have thanked me personally in e-mail and over MSN.

I have done a quick update to my calendar plugin to include a CSS drop-down description when you hover over an event. This can be styled according to taste in the same way as the rest of the calendar. You can see this revised operation running on my calendar and you can grab your updated copy on my programming page. If you haven’t yet tried this plugin on your WordPress powered site, now is an excellent time to give it a go - you won’t be disappointed!

I am pleased to announce the release of the new improved calendar for WordPress, version 1.1. In addition to the previous features the calendar now supports recurring events on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis as well as the ability to specify a time of day for the events to occur. If you are looking for a personal planner for your blog or an events planner for your WordPress powered website you could do a lot worse than giving this plugin a try. You can see it action here or go straight to the download page. Thanks to Richard Brown for providing a financial incentive to code, release and support this improved version.

I’ve had quite a lot of interest in my events calendar over the last few weeks so I decided to write it up into a proper WordPress plugin that everyone can use should they so wish.

Even though its written for WordPress any coder could adapt this to work stand-alone or with another content management system. You can download it on this page here

Feature List

• Monthly view of events
• Mouse-over details for each event
• User and search friendly URL scheme
• Events can span more than one day
• Multiple events per day possible
• Easy to use events manager in admin dashboard