so close

Indeed, I am thinking of adding some widget that would make the plugin useful without modifying theme templates.

The first thing that comes to my mind would be a widget that would display a list of future dates.

That would be very simple to build.

Once we have that, we can think about a calendar view, indeed. But it’s a bit more complex, since you will have to handle cases where several posts fall on the same day.

The first thing that comes to my mind would be a widget that would display a list of future dates.

If it’s a list of future dates it will be too large for cases that there are events everyday. Unless you meen like an eventlist.

I think a mini calendar like that is essential for an event manager. Idealy it should have daily, weekly and monthly views as well, but at least the visitors should be able to click on a date and see what events are on that date

About the mini-calendar:

Actually, I could re-use a lot of the code of the Calendar Widget that is included in the default widgets.

The function get_calendar(), defined in wp-includes/general-template.php L#1132, would “simply” be modified to query for posts with the Custom Field method.

The second step, which I am not sure yet how to solve, is to create an archive page template that will list events scheduled on the same day (without disrupting the normal archive behavior).

Update: in the bleeding edge version that you find on Github, there’s now a widget that will display a list of upcoming dates.

Feedback is welcome!

isn’t the widget part of the plugin?

Yes, the widget is part of the plugin, in the development version on Github.

I want to do some more testing before releasing it on www.ads-software.com – that’s why your feedback would be useful!