Uses Cases for the Calendar Widget

As it sits, the calendar widget pretty much does just what you’ve said—allows people to troll the archives.

Of course, it can be modified for different uses. One site I worked on used the Future plugin to convert the WordPress calendar widget into a calendar of events by creating a post for each event whose “date published” field was set to the date the event had happened in the past or would happen in the future.

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