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WordPress Plugin Ajax Event Calendar Exceeds 31,000 Downloads

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The Ajax Event Calendar WordPress plugin surpasses 31,000 downloads in just four months since its release.  This easy-to-use visual community calendar allows authorized users to add, edit, move, copy, resize and delete entries into custom categories, and supports daily, weekly, monthly and yearly repeating events.  Designed, developed and supported by Product Development Professional Eran Miller, this open source WordPress plugin is freely available for download.

  • Translated into 21 languages including right-to-left languages
  • Earned a 93.8% approval rating (from 100 users)
  • Averaging roughly 225 daily downloads
  • Listed as the most popular calendar plugin in August 2011
  • Appeared numerous times in the Top WordPress Plugins – Rising Stars, a top 20 weekly list of new plugins with less than 100,000 downloads
  • Achieved first-page ranking on the WordPress Repository Search with the keyword “calendar” keyword for Highest-Rated and Most Popular plugin
  • Returns over 31,000 unique calendar instances in Google search results - among them #OccupyWallStreet and #OccupySD (San Diego) to organize political demonstrations

Plugin users engage the author via social media, forums, surveys, and feedback collected on a public issue tracker, to democratically prioritize the most-desired features.

Ajax Event Calendar Plugin for WordPress

I am pleased to announce the recent release of the Ajax Event Calendar plugin for WordPress.  Efforts to create the AEC were launched a few months ago, when I was asked to setup an easy-to-use blog community calendar that supported multiple user contribution.

Despite the many calendar plugins available, none were appropriate or easily modified to address all requirements. So I set out to create my first WordPress plugin, indeed my first plugin of any kind.  The AEC is a derivative amalgamation of several jQuery plugins, some database work, and a fair amount of PHP code utilizing the WordPress API.