As long as your blog posts are not strictly tied to specific dates then ask yourself, do you actually need the WordPress calendar in your sidebar? To begin with, it usually looks terrible (it can be tricky to style) but it also serves no real purpose to your readers. Look at it from the readers perspective and ask yourself how many times have you ever used the calendar on someone else’s site to find what you’re looking for. Whilst some of you may be able to say ‘once or twice’ it really isn’t worth taking up all that space in your side bar when only a handful of people use it.

If people want something they will most likely make use of the search feature so I really don’t see why the calendar should be there. Keep your theme uncluttered and free from unnecessary bits like this.

Live demo: http://www.michaelgarethmorgan.com/wordpress/index.php?wptheme=MGM_WP_1
Download: http://files.michaelgarethmorgan.com/MGM_WP_1.rar

Conditions of use: You must keep the link back to my site in the footer! You cannot sell this theme! You can however distribute it as you like providing it is distributed as is with no changes.

As always, comments & suggestions welcome.

UPDATE: I’ve also created a slightly darker version as requested by a lot of people… Demo + download: http://www.michaelgarethmorgan.com/wordpress/index.php?wptheme=MGM_WP_1_b