Author Birthday List
The Author Birthdays plugin will display in the sidebar or footer a list of authors born on the current day. There is also a feature which allows you to see all authors born in a given month. To use this see-all feature, you will need the EXEC-PHP plugin which you can get HERE. There are currently over 600 authors in the table and I’m adding more for the next update. All the authors are linked to a wikipedia page (if they have one) so you can learn more about the author and their work.
Author Birthdays has been downloaded 196 times from this site.
I happen to be a writer so I wrote this to display authors but the plugin could be adapted to any group you want simply by modifying the data load section and replacing author names, birth dates and wiki url with your own data. Keep in mind that it took me several months to write the code and compile the over 600 names in this table.
The plugin will create a table, load the data and create 13 pages; a top page and one page for every month. Remember, you will need to download and activate the EXEC-PHP plugin for the pages to show all authors born in a given month. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO EDIT THE PAGES AS THIS COULD DESTROY THE CODE WITHIN THEM!
The see-all display will load in your existing post/page area or you can change the name of authpagesample.php to authpage.php to use a different template. If you wish to use authpage.php, it will need to be in your current theme directory.
The plugins styles are drawn from inline styling and can be easily tweaked to match your blog.
To install, unzip the download and move it to your plugin directory. Activate the plugin and insert the following code where you want the Author Birthdays to display:
replacing – with < and = with >.
Since I despise litter, even electronic litter, I’ve included an uninstall plugin which will delete the table and the pages created should you grow tired of this plugin. To uninstall, deactivate the Author Birthdays plugin and activate the uninstall plugin. You can then deactivate the uninstall plugin and delete them from your plugin directory.
There are many authors I would like to have included in this version but all I had was a year of birth and I need the whole date. If you have a favorite author who is not in this version, leave a comment or contact me with the details and I’ll see it gets in a future update.
If you have any questions, comments or complaints, leave a comment or contact me HERE
I wore out a pair of glasses and the tips of my fingers, not to mention getting little done on my novel, while writing this code and compiling the list of authors. If you find this plugin useful, consider donating a buck or two or three to the cause. Thanks.
