[Wordpress Plugin] Calendar Archives

A picture is worth a 1000 words so take a look at 2 of them using first and second layouts and download the plugin

Description
Calendar Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates yearly calendar for your posts. Create a new page (having ‘no sidebars’ layout) for your calendar archive and insert the shortcode [calendar-archive] in the editor. Load this page and enjoy the view!

Each day of calendar will display first available photo from posts of that day in the background. The plugin’s view is customizable and has two working views in the download

Installation
1. Upload directory ‘calendar-archives’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Configure plugin options by clicking on ‘Settings’ link near plugin name or ‘Settings’ -> ‘Calendar Archives’ navigation link. Make sure that your plugin directory must be writable by webserver to use caching of pages and images
4. Create page having [calendar-archive] shortcode. It will be better to use empty (having no sidebars) template for this page

Note:- This plugin is tested for Wordpress- ~~2.8.4~~ 2.9.1 only but should work on previous 2.9.* or 2.8.* versions

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Published:: 8.21.09 / 9:48am

Category:: PHP, Wordpress

Author:: Amit Badkas

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Valentin 8.21.09 / 1:51pm

Hey !
great plugin ! Nice !

But I get an error when I display images –> “Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration”

jack 8.21.09 / 3:22pm

Can I see a working version of this plugin somewhere? I’d like to see how it works with actual posts before installing.

Amit Badkas 8.21.09 / 4:39pm

@valentin: Thanks for appreciation. You get this error because your PHP is not configured to open URLs over HTTP (that’s what the error says ‘URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration’). If you disable ’show images’ setting for ‘calendar archives’ then this error will be gone and no images will be displayed

@jack: I will set-up a demo soon, till that time you can try this at your local wordpress set-up (if you have any)

Thanks

baron 8.21.09 / 5:18pm

Works great, thank you

François 8.22.09 / 3:08pm

Great plugin Amit,
how can i translate the plugin , or is it a way to internationalise it ?
Thank’s

François 8.22.09 / 4:55pm

i’ve found how to translate the days names (calendar-layout-1.php file) but did’nt found the month names…

Tiger 8.23.09 / 7:37am

anyone installed this who can give me a link so i can see it in action

Regards

François 8.23.09 / 12:32pm

you can see it here http://francois.keller.free.fr

Amit Badkas 8.24.09 / 8:14am

@baron: Thanks for appreciation!

@François: Thanks for appreciation. The way to internationalize the plugin will be coming in next version

@Tiger: http://www.geekeries.fr/archives/, this is one more demo

Andy 8.26.09 / 10:08am

Images aren’t showing up for me, though I see no errors either. Where should I start troubleshooting?

Amit Badkas 8.26.09 / 4:59pm

@Andy: The ’show images’ setting is ON? the ‘cached_images’ directory in plugin directory has any images? If you can change some PHP code then remove all ‘@’ (error suppression operator) from plugin file and then try to see the errors

Andy 8.29.09 / 7:46am

’show images’ is checked. There are no images in the ‘cached_images’ subdirectory of the plugin directory though.

I’ll try removing the ‘@’ operators.

Andy 8.29.09 / 9:48am

removing ‘@’ chars had no apparent effect. But by instrumenting the code a bit, I have determined that the problem is that the call to preg_match_all() in calendar_archives.php is producing matches which are urls starting with ‘http:’. When file_get_contents() is later called on such a url, it fails.

Andy 8.30.09 / 9:25am

I’ve fixed it by patching calendar-archives.php. Email me if you are interested in details.

ADRIAN 9.1.09 / 10:33pm

Hello Andy, Can you e-mail me the fix. I have the same isue

Emmi 9.3.09 / 1:42am

Hi Andy.
I have the same problem. I would really be interested to get the fix if possible. Thanks

Amit Badkas 9.3.09 / 4:21pm

@Valentin, @Andy, @Adrian, @Emmi: I have released new plugin version today, this will fix the problem – please try and let me know

Emmi 9.3.09 / 6:51pm

Hi.
I downloaded the plug-in again. I published a page and it looks good but I get this when i´m publishing:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /customers/mediariket.se/mediariket.se/httpd.www/ediary/wp-content/plugins/calendar-archives/calendar-archives.php on line 223
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /customers/mediariket.se/mediariket.se/httpd.www/ediary/wp-content/plugins/calendar-archives/calendar-archives.php on line 223

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /customers/mediariket.se/mediariket.se/httpd.www/ediary/wp-content/plugins/calendar-archives/calendar-archives.php on line 223
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /customers/mediariket.se/mediariket.se/httpd.www/ediary/wp-content/plugins/calendar-archives/calendar-archives.php:223) in /customers/mediariket.se/mediariket.se/httpd.www/ediary/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865

Now I am no expert so I do not have a clue what this means. Appreciate a little help. Thanks.
I love this plug-in so it would be nice to see it work properly.

Amit Badkas 9.4.09 / 9:33am

@Emmi: Thanks for pointing out the problem. I guess you had this error at admin side and not while viewing calendar. Please download the plugin again and let me know more

Emmi 9.4.09 / 11:26pm

Hi Amit
This time it works perfectly. And yes, the error was on the admin side.
I can send you links if you want to see how they look.
Thanks again. This plugin is great and just what i needed.

Amit Badkas 9.7.09 / 9:00am

@Emmi: Thanks for feedback. It will be great if you provide demo link to view how calendar looks

Emmi 9.10.09 / 12:30pm

Here are the links:
Emmi´s Portfolio

Emmi´s Photodiary

I would like to have it on my Formula 1 blog too, but for some reason whatever I do the calendar won´t show up. I am out of ideas so I gave up to try to fix the problem.

flavinou 9.13.09 / 2:30pm

Hello !
Does anyone know why I have this error with this plugin ?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: file_put_contents() in /space_3/a/armand38/italien/wp-content/plugins/calendar-archives/calendar-archives.php

Amit Badkas 9.14.09 / 8:40am

@flavinou: The error is due to your PHP version (4.x) because file_put_contents() function available in PHP5. Anyways, I will fix this and let you know when done

Dieter 9.16.09 / 1:15pm

Hi,

i use the plugin.
But in Germany the first day of the week is monday. Where and how can i change this?

Amit Badkas 9.16.09 / 3:40pm

@Dieter: Thanks for using the plugin. To change start day of week, there is no setting, I am planning to add it in next version. Till that time, you can wait or if you know PHP then also change the code as needed

Jan 10.6.09 / 1:49am

The plugin is really great.
However, I didn’t figure out how to create an empty template/page without sidebars. I’m using the theme “WordPress Default 1.6″. Any hints?

Amit Badkas 10.6.09 / 3:10pm

@Jan: Thanks for appreciation. Though your question about creation of page template is not related to my plugin, here is link to do that, http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

seriocomic 10.7.09 / 3:56pm

Nice plugin. However i’m wondering if the the resizing would work better before writing to the image cache?

Brian 10.14.09 / 2:35am

Really great plugin. Thank you. I have a few questions:

1. Can you specify a particular category to show posts for?
2. Do you have the ability to show upcoming posts?

I would like to use the plugin to show events (posts) for upcoming and past events..

Thanks again!

Brian

Amit Badkas 10.15.09 / 8:35am

@seriocomic and @Brian: Thanks for appreciation

@seriocomic: Yes, we are resizing the image and cache it to use that again

@Brian: No, both of the things you need are not there in plugin but you can modify SQL query in plugin to match for your needs

fernando 10.28.09 / 1:02am

My friend, I know how to instert some comands, but what does this means ” insert the shortcode [calendar-archive] “, can you give me the full code to insert, I’m really ban on programing.

thanks.
regards.

Amit Badkas 10.28.09 / 10:13am

@fernando: It seems that you are newbie to wordpress, shortcode is like a tag which is used in content of page/post. So if you create a page in wordpress and place [calendar-archive] in content of it then save it, you can view your calendar archives after accessing that page

One of the examples of shortcode is http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode

Autumn 11.2.09 / 2:38am

Hello – I have CHMOD my plugins folder to 777 and I still get the error: Your plugin directory (or ‘cached_pages’ directory, if it exists, in your plugin directory) is not writeable by WordPress. Caching is not possible.

Do you have any suggestions? I checked through cpanel, and it says my plugins directory is writeable.

Amit Badkas 11.2.09 / 11:53am

@Autumn: You are sure that your plugin directory (the directory in which calendar archives plugin related files exist, i.e., wp-content/plugins/calendar-archives in your wordpress install) is writable by web server? If yes then check if ‘cached_pages’ directory in wp-content/plugins/calendar-archives is writable by web server or not

François 11.3.09 / 3:18am

@Amit, can you explain how to use the pot file to translate the plugin (i’m using poedit but don’t know what to do withe .mo and .po file generated…)
Thank’s
François

Fat Cow 1.12.10 / 4:13am

Hi, I would want to translate plugin to the Russian language. Please tell me your email, simply reply to mrilyuha@gmail.com. Thanks!

Phil 1.12.10 / 11:56pm

I’m trying to make the thumbnails in the calendar clickable, rather than the titles, as my posts don’t have titles. Is this possible? I’m not sure which parts of the code to change…

Amit Badkas 1.13.10 / 11:20am

@Phil: You can modify existing layouts (calendar-layout-1.php or calendar-layout-2.php) or create new one (calendar-layout-3.php) as per you need

Phil 1.19.10 / 8:39am

Thanks Amit. I know which files to edit, I was just trying to work out which bits of the code, but I’ll figure it out.

Fath 1.24.10 / 7:29pm

Hi, great plugin. I had a problem here.
It works well in one of my blog [http://furniturebookmark.com/archives] but It deformed on my other blog with the same plugin setting [http://gardeningbookmark.com/archives]. Any suggestion please? Thanks

Amit Badkas 1.25.10 / 8:30pm

@Fath: Thanks for appreciation. From the information you have provided, it doesn’t clear where the problem is. Can you please elaborate more on it like if you have any errors in logs etc.?

Amit

Becky 2.5.10 / 8:15am

Hi Amit – I’m very impressed with this plugin’s capabilities, but I’m having trouble getting my images to display. I think I have two different issues.

First, an image from each post isn’t being written to the cache-images folder. I’m pretty sure I know why this is. I’ve been able to reproduce the problem, so I won’t bother you with it.

But I’m stuck on my 2nd issue – the pictures that ARE showing up in the cache-images folder aren’t being displayed on the calendar. The calendar boxes that have images associated with them do look different (which is encouraging). On those, the date bar is a different color and I can’t see the title of the post unless I hover over the calendar box. Then I can see the post title. It’s almost as if the image is there but invisible!

Any ideas? Thank you!!

Becky 2.5.10 / 8:17am

Sorry – I left the wrong website. I gave you the address of my static/html site. I’m moving to wordpress, obviously. This time I gave the correct URL.

Mandy 2.19.10 / 6:58am

Does this plugin work with NextGEN Gallery? I downloaded this plugin and made a page for it, but there are no images on the days in the calendar. It only has the title of my posts. I checked the box in the options labeled “Show images”.

Mandy 2.19.10 / 7:19am

I figured out that if I put the image url in the post rather than inserting it from NextGEN Gallery, that it works, but is there a way to make it pick up the images from the posts if I keep adding it from the NextGEN Gallery? I’d hate to have to go into all of my posts to change how the images are inserted….

Kermit Woodall 2.22.10 / 8:37pm

How can I make this display the calendar without bullets in front of everything in the 2nd layout?

Paul 3.15.10 / 10:56pm

hello,
really nice plug-in!
but i got a question on customizing it.

is there any chance to just show one month per page and add links to the months before and after?

thanks,
paul

Amit Badkas 3.16.10 / 11:41am

@Paul: Thanks for appreciation. Currently there is no such setting to display only one month per page but you can modify the plugin as per your need.

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