There’s a new version of WordPress out today, and I’ll probably download it and upgrade this weekend. After the experience of moving to WordPress 2.8 — which wasn’t pleasant — I’m a little cautious.<\/p>\n
The main issue with that upgrade — the WordPress memory bloat — was resolved in one of the bugfix releases. It’s still a massive<\/i> piece of software, but that probably can’t be helped.<\/p>\n
And, while I haven’t upgraded my WordPress install, I have<\/i> spent my morning working with PHP code, and I cobbled together a WordPress plugin.<\/p>\n
What I wanted was a different way of displaying archives. I wanted a calendar view for archives, much like LiveJournal does, where you can get a yearly calendar, with links on each day to posts for that day.<\/p>\n
WordPress can do that, but only on a month-by-month basis.<\/p>\n
I took one plugin, the Calendar Cloud Plugin<\/a>, and I was able to merge that with a routine that called WordPress’ calendar code. I had to experiment, to figure out how to pass the get_calendar function the month and year; it’s not written in such a way that you can, but I discovered there was a way to trick<\/i> it<\/a>. Then, trial and error to figure out the right way to make the string for the “trick.”<\/p>\n And that worked. I had a table of monthly calendars. But that didn’t really work the way I wanted — it gave me “next” and “previous” links at the bottom of each month’s calendar. So I took the code for the get_calendar function, copied it into my plugin, renamed the function, and stripped out the code for the next and previous links.<\/p>\n That worked.<\/p>\n Then it was just a question of getting the calendars styled.<\/p>\n I like the final result<\/a>. It does what I want, and it looks good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a new version of WordPress out today, and I’ll probably download it and upgrade this weekend. After the experience of moving to WordPress 2.8 — which wasn’t pleasant — I’m a little cautious. The main issue with that upgrade — the WordPress memory bloat — was resolved in one of the bugfix releases. It’sContinue reading “On Snowy Day Coding”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[58,4096],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-php","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}