Peter's Useful Crap - Forum: Peter's Date Countdown

Peter on Wish list from users

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:53:46 +0000

I have no short-term plans to develop the plugin further, but you are free to hack up the code. You could also look into WordPress custom fields or create a plugin that just stores and edits text in rows in the wp_options table.

chinola on Wish list from users

Sat, 29 May 2010 13:08:57 +0000

Hi! your plugin is really close to what I am looking for. I want to have holders for dates. There are dates that change every year scattered through different pages on a site. Rather than having to remember what pages all those dates are on, I could almost use your plugin to change all those dates from year to year in one place in the admin and then it would automagically change on all the pages.

So using the same php callit in all the places where the dates change, referencing specific countdowns. Do you have any plans to open up your plugin so that free form text could be entered in the admin section?

Brian on WordPress 2.7

Thu, 21 May 2009 21:50:24 +0000

Peter said:

Under WordPress 2.7, the date countdown management menu should be under “Tools”.

Didn't see it at first, but found it the next time I opened the admin page (unfamiliarity with the 2.7 interface.)

Peter said:

As for editing the output, that is built in the function “countdown_execute” on line 392 of datecountdown.php. The code is in need of a cleanup to make it more readable, but it’s all there.

I'm not a coder, but I can usually figure out what is going on and manipulate a bit, and sometimes I'm even successful.

Peter on WordPress 2.7

Thu, 21 May 2009 12:12:44 +0000

Hi Brian,

Under WordPress 2.7, the date countdown management menu should be under "Tools".

As for editing the output, that is built in the function "countdown_execute" on line 392 of datecountdown.php. The code is in need of a cleanup to make it more readable, but it's all there.

Brian on WordPress 2.7

Thu, 21 May 2009 10:35:02 +0000

Never mind, figured it out from poking around in the datecountdown.php file. The last three are hour of event, minute of event and link URL.

Now if I can figure out how to have it display as just: $itemname in $itemday it'll be perfect.

Brian on WordPress 2.7

Thu, 21 May 2009 10:10:57 +0000

I just upgraded to WP 2.7 and the menu system has changed so that there is no Manage top level menu, so the Date Countdown sub-menu has no place to be displayed.

I don't mind manually editing the datecountdowndates.php file, but I need to know what all the parameters are. I can figure out what most of them mean, but I'm puzzled by the last three (bold items).
$importantdate[0]=array("2010 Olympics in Vancouver!", 2, 12, 2010, "The Olympics are here!", 0, 0, "");

Peter on Time isn't right :(

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:12:25 +0000

Hi, the reason for that is that the setting is relative to your server's time, not relative to UTC :)

Kijac on Time isn't right :(

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:54:51 +0000

Ok, I found it. But I have to write -1.
I can't understand that :(. We are in germany and normally we have to write +1 .....

But okay, now it's right. Thanks!

Kijac

Peter on Time isn't right :(

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:38:25 +0000

Hi, if you edit the plugin file itself (datecountdown.php), you'll see this setting:

// Change this if you want to add or subtract hours from your server time
$timediff = 0;

Change the value of that as necessary. For example, if your server time is EST and you want the times to be PST, you would enter -3.

Kijac on Time isn't right :(

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:33:55 +0000

Ähhmmmm, I don't think so :(. What should I do and where? Please tell me! Thanks!

Kijac