The widget (version 1.2.2) adds calendar functionality to a WordPress website. This includes an automatically-generated Calendar page, like it or not. (If the widget is still installed on this site, you’ll see the Calendar page it generates in the menu.)

Like Ajax Events Calendar, All-in-One has severly limited options for recurring events. But the administrative interface and the widget’s output may be polished and useful enough for me to tolerate the shortcoming.

This widget (version 1.0, by Eran Miller) comes with no documentation for the non-programmer. So, having installed it, I’ll try typing its “shortcode” (the word “calendar” between square brackets) as instructed, and see what happens.

Update: Aha, it caused a calendar to appear below (that is, at the point in the post where I inserted the code). It was a typical month-view grid (with buttons for navigating to other months) and populated with an event that was entered by default during installation (that is, it displayed “Ajax Event Calendar [v1.0] successfully installed!” under today’s date). Some elements of the plugin’s appearance have settings I could change.

Also, by creating a page (instead of a post) and typing the shortcode there, I could make this calendar appear as a fixed option in the site’s navigation menu. (If I’d left it in this post, it would’ve been pushed off the page eventually by newer posts.)

I’ve uninstalled the widget, because I found the appearance unappealing. Also, the options for recurring events are unsatisfactory; for instance, it requres one to specify the exact number of days between occurrences, which of course won’t work for typical monthly events.