Livecalendar Pages, Year, and IE7 Problems

Posted on February 23, 2007

Involution.com has been running on WordPress for about a year-and-a-half now. One thing that I particularly like is the calendar index to all of my posts that’s actually provided by the Livecalendar plugin. This plugin seems to have been developed by different people at different times, and it mostly works, but had some issues in Internet Explorer for ages. Namely, the “loading” animated gif would display forever in Internet Explorer. Some clever punter (not the original author or maintainer as far as I can tell) actually managed to fix that snafu, and released a new version of the plugin called “1.9rc3″. Problem is there were still a couple of issues with it. Namely, the previous year button seemed to only work once, and if you published a page (not a post) on a given day, it was creating a post link for that day in the calendar. Posts and pages are different to WordPress. So, the page thing was easy enough to fix as I just tacked on “AND post_type=’post’” into all of the Livecalendar queries. The previous year problem actually lived on Line 266 in livecalendar.js where previous year wasn’t being computer correctly. So, I give to the web community what I’m calling livecalendar-1.9rc4-hoyhoy. All of the fixes rolled in so you can now enjoy flawless calendar indexing goodness on your WordPress site. Happy blogging.

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  1. theddy Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:37:55 UTC

    Thanks a lot – but I can’t find a livecalendar.php in the ZIP file…

  2. jtax Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:03:27 UTC

    yea, thx man, appreciate it!

  3. Mishkin Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:27:10 UTC

    Thanks a lot for this one!

  4. Steve Scotten Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:46:34 UTC

    Oddly enough, it’s making the title for the calendar (the h2 above it) disappear. I read in the LiveCalendar forums (which seem to be quite broken) that you found that the widget plugin is breaking the DOM? How is that? And why would this still happen when the calendar isn’t invoked as a widget? Any other leads that might solve this?

  5. Steve Scotten Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:59:01 UTC

    Oh, I think I see now. Your new version PLUS the line 100 change. I guess I was overthinking this whole problem. Thanks!

  6. FKI Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:24:44 UTC

    Formatting question:

    Is there any way to format how the text when your HOVER YOUR MOUSE over the day? Like Bullet points or Line breaks?

    A way to have each post that day on it’s own line?

    That would make it easier for the reader to identify individual posts..

    Please advise if that’s possible!

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