In my ongoing effort of not re-inventing the wheel, I spent hours upon hours looking through ALL of the available WordPress calendar plugins for a project that I had been working on.
My Needs:
- AJAX (required asynchronous navigation between months)
- Query posts by category (would be nice if I could select the category)
- Associate posts with their dates.
- Highlight calendar date when a post exists.
- A tooltip that would display post titles and link to individual posts (past, current, and future) when a highlighted date is selected.
Note: The tooltip would also allow me to display multiple posts per day should that be the case.
The closest thing I was able to come across was the AJAX Calendar by Urban Giraffe, but it returned posts by month and linked to a daily archive if a post existed, instead of the post itself. Kind of close, but not what I needed.
So what’s a guy to do? I gave it a good fight, but I had to make one from scratch.
You can see it in action on the home page sidebar (in rough form)…it’s set up as a widget for now and displaying all posts from the Tips category.
I ended up modifying both the look and functionality once I integrated it onto my clients site: http://trakkersgps.com/blog/
This one took quite a bit of time, but it’s by far the most intricate WordPress site I’ve had the pleasure to work on. And I had a great time doing it!
Anyway you would release this code?
I actually developed it for a client so it doesn’t really feel right releasing it as is without making some significant changes first to differentiate. However, I am always available for hire and would be happy to code up something similar.
Fair enough!
Holy cow! This is really nice, the amount of posts are even ‘heatmapped’ in a sense, dates with more posts are a darker shade, BRILLIANT! Great work, I would really like to see this as a wordpress plugin someday.
Amazing, best Calendar I’ve seen. You should re-create and release as a plugin