Comments on: The Case Against the Archive Calendar

By: Wyrfel

Wyrfel — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:50:17 +0000

Hei. While your points are valid (even though i do not have a monthly calendar everywhere else in my life), i do not believe that the calendar is the major reason for scattered and information blown blogs. People tend to put as much “cool” stuff into their sidebars as they can. A calendar is a well known and easy to figure element for a visitor of a site, it is not what will confuse him, but rather all the other stuff that surounds it.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 21:16:59 +0000

I’ve just created a blog and put the calendar on it. I thought it was very useful for indicating how often I post to the blog… don’t you agree?

There is also a mod for doing this with photos instead of numbers which I’m looking in to.

I really think it looks alright… (comments?)

By: anjenaire

anjenaire — Wed, 18 May 2005 16:52:26 +0000

The calendar is extremely important to me (at least it will be if I can get it working correctly) in that I want my readers to be able to read “future” posts (these will include upcoming events and rehearsal items). Right now I can’t get the calendar to display events in the future but at some point I will figure that out and then the calendar will be extremely important…

By: Bloghead

Bloghead — Mon, 09 May 2005 12:07:27 +0000

I came to your site looking to put that calender thingy or some cool blog tool stuff i can put on my blog. Didn’t realize so many hated that calender. Well, I’m not sure how it works but I was thinking it was kind of your daily planner thing. Is it? I’ll do some more research before putting it on my blog.

By: Chris Berg » Wordpress Calender

Chris Berg » Wordpress Calender — Sun, 01 May 2005 09:49:25 +0000

[...] Wordpress Calender
General - Chris Berg - Sunday May 1, 2005

Convinced by this blogger’s post, I’ve dropped the calender. If you use Wordpress, then it is worth considering [...]

By: Logan

Logan — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:21:11 +0000

I got here using the google search “wordpress calendar is useless.” I had a feeling it was, and you convinced me. It’s gone from my blog now. Beautiful site, by the way. Bookmarked.

By: JimSpot

JimSpot — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:59:35 +0000

Worthwhile Question
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By: Sadish

Sadish — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:47:24 +0000

Yeah I agree…
I had it for a while and then I removed it from all my websites.

By: Brian Poirier

Brian Poirier — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:39:59 +0000

I also recently took out my calendar. It was visually exciting to see, in a way, but an unneeded element.

By: TechGnome

TechGnome — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:02:16 +0000

Points are all valid, except I’m proly that rare case of a persion that will actualy click a single day to see what they posted on such-and-such date. I disagree with your assesment that the calendar is limited, especialy when all your points show its uselesness. There’s a difference between being useless and limited. I think it’s fairly useless for the most part. I still have mine, but because I’m fickle. I’ve taken it out, only to put it back in and out again. A prime reason people have one, is the same reason people have g-mail - everyone’s got one, why can’t I?

Will I take mine out, eh, probably. Will I put it back in? Eh, probably. Will the cycle ever end? Probably not.