WP-Plugin – GZ Calendar Date Style [WordPress English version]
Here for you a simple plugin for your Blog WordPress, that will allow you to differentiate you from the other Blogs; This Plugin allows to visualize the date of publication of your Post / Article, with the aspect of a traditional calendar, with Month / Year in the superior part and the number of the Day in the inferior part.
Required
* GZ Calendar Date Style require WordPress 2.1 release or following, and has been tested since the WordPress 2.2 release.
Characteristics
The plugin is composed of 2 files and one directory images.
- • The images directory: inside they are present the various image files (GIF), the calendar is composed of only 2 images Upcalendar.gif & Dwcalendar.gif that are respectively the superior and inferior part of the calendar. In the briefcase you will find besides a series of file GIF denominated Upcalendar-color.gif that they represent a series of colored template for your calendar, just rename the file of the select color in Upcalendar.gif to change the color of your Gz Calendar Date Style ( example: if you choose the blue color you must modify the file Upcalendar-blu.gif in Upcalendar.gif ).
- • The 2 files (CSS e PHP): – calendar.css: it’s the sheet of Style of the calendar, you can modify your liking calendar, and eventually to frame to your choice the date, to manage its dimension, the color, etc… – gz-datestyle.php: it’s the file of the Plugin, and its change is dissuaded.
Installation
To install the plugin GZ Calendar Style, follows these 4 simple footsteps:
- download the file zip-archive containing the files of the Plugin and extract them on your computer. Upload the extracted directory gz-datestyle with all of his content in the directory wp-content/plugins of your WordPress installation ;
- from the panel of administration of WordPress, under the voice Plugin, activates the plugin GZ Calendar Date Style;
- modify the files under listed of your Theme WordPress that is found in the directory wp-content/themes of your WordPress installation: List of the 4 files of the Theme in which to effect the change: – index.php – archive.php – archives.php – single.php insert this code under writing as soon as before the <h2> tag container the principal information of the Post / Article (Title, date, author, etc … ) of your theme (this is the only change that is necessary to introduce to the theme); Add:
<?php if(function_exists("draw_calendar")) draw_calendar(); ?>Remove:
<?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> - To this point the date of your Post / Articles should appear in the form of calendar in your site.
Download
Language: EnglishDownload: GZ Calendar Date StyleVersion: 1.2 |
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I hope that this plugin can help to make you more attractive your Blog…
Hi,
I love your plugin, but I’m having trouble getting it to work for me, its showing the Month, Day and Year, but the image is not showing behind it. I’d appreciate any help.
Thanks
Dawn
Hi Dawn,
the problem can depend on so many things… I would need to see a page of your site to resolve your problem.
this is just what I was looking for.
easily implemented too.
good work.
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