Posts Tagged ‘jQuery’

WordPress Calendar Plugin: Display Posts By Date & Category

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

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:

  1. AJAX (required asynchronous navigation between months)
  2. Query posts by category (would be nice if I could select the category)
  3. Associate posts with their dates.
  4. Highlight calendar date when a post exists.
  5. 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.
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Favorite Lightbox For Images and Video

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Last year I was working on a project that was utilizing the jQuery Cycle plugin for a slideshow and I was struggling to find a compatible jQuery lightbox script which would play FLV videos hosted on the same server (with a built in media player). Unfortunately, the best one I came across was written in MooTools which would’ve led to conflicts. Worried that I would have to re-write the slideshow using MooTools or calling jQuery.noConflict() which I hate, I was relived when I stumbled upon Shadowbox.js, a lightbox style Media Viewer which was compatible with major JS frameworks like Prototype, jQuery, and MooTools. In addition to being incredibly easy to install (when compared to other lightbox scripts), it’s automatically adapts to whatever Javascript framework is being used! Best of all, no conflicts! It also does images, galleries, embedded video, and tons more.

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