A request for enhancement

  • Resolved dorfdimpaler

    (@dorfdimpaler)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    This should be a simple request. You’ve got all the parts right there.

    I use the widget for this plug-in as a major feature of my weblog. I’ve got 16 years of content and it really helps my readers to find not only the stuff I’ve written recently but all the other things I’ve published on any particular day.

    I have one small request. Would there be a way to include a screen in the Dashboard that would allow someone to put in a date or a date range and return all the weblog entries for the dates entered?

    My reason for asking this is that I’ve still got a few holes in my weblog– days for which I have written very little, and I’m going through a project of trying to fill in the holes. I want to publish stuff on the days where I haven’t got much. This report would really help me plan future publishing dates.

    Many thanks in advance.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author room34

    (@room34)

    This is an interesting suggestion.

    I was thinking initially that WordPress core already supported something almost like this, in that you can filter your Posts list by month.

    But then I realized that’s not really great for what you’re trying to do, because a) it’s a whole month, not a specific date, and b) it’s specific to a year, not the same month across all years.

    If I were to add this feature, I would most likely try to leverage that filtering feature that already exists in WordPress. I would probably add two dropdown menus: one, a list of months, and the other, day numbers 1 to 31. You could just pick the month to get all of the posts from that month across all years, or both month and day to get posts for a specific date across all years. (Incidentally you’d be able to pick a day number by itself too, but that probably wouldn’t be terribly useful.)

    Leveraging this existing filter mechanism should be fairly easy. Building something that would accept input of a date range would probably be considerably more complicated to build.

    Plugin Author room34

    (@room34)

    OK, this actually turned out to be very easy to implement as described above. Update to version 2.1.0 and you’ll see new month and day dropdowns on the Posts admin screen.

    Thread Starter dorfdimpaler

    (@dorfdimpaler)

    HoopDeeDoo!

    It works! Thanks! This makes things soooo much easier!

    I’ve always wanted this sort of sorting functionality in a general sense. Added bonus to be able to have it bundled in here. Thanks!

    (originally posted at boffosocko.com/2020/01/14/55764606/)

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