About this plugin
This is another simple plugin to add a little functionality of a
calendar to your blog. With this plugin you can specify, for any of
your posts, an associated “Event Date” using a new widget in the post
editor. Then, elsewhere on your site, you can retrieve a list of
future events using the [upcoming] shortcode on any post or page.
The shortcode supports several options:
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category_name: If defined, show posts only from these
categories. You can provide multiple comma-separated category
identifiers (slugs).
-
days_old: Show events whose Event Date is no more than this many
days past. The default is 0, which shows only events taking place
today or later. If you enter a non-numeric value such as infinity,
then all matching events will be shown regardless of the Event Date.
-
style: One of list (default) or post. If it is list, then
the list style is indented and bulleted. If it is post then the
title is promoted to <h2 class="upcoming-entry-title"> and the list
style is plain.
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text: One of none (default), excerpt, or normal. If it is
excerpt, then the post excerpt is shown, similar to search results.
If it is normal then the full post (up to the [more] tag) is
shown.
-
null_text: If no results are returned, shows this text.
Defaults to (none).
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class_name: If defined, adds this class name to the generated <ul>
tag. Useful for custom styling.
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show_date: If defined, the date will precede the post title
-
date_format: If showing the date, this php date format will be
used. The default is the Date Format value from the General Settings
page. I recommend "F j, Y", which displays as “May 12, 2012”.
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q: Arbitrary additional arguments to pass to the query. See the
WP_Query
page for available syntax. For example, to show only events with tag
“workshop”, and only 3 such events, you would write [upcoming
q="posts_per_page=3&tag=workshop"].
The output can then be further formatted using CSS. We recommend the
plugin Improved Simpler
CSS for
quickly styling your upcoming events list (and your site)!
Report bugs, give feedback, or fork this plugin on
GitHub.