It’s here folks… the long awaited Today in History Widget WordPress Plugin.
Ok so the only person that I know of to be “long awaiting” this plugin is myself. I’ve had it on the drawing board for over a year now.
I worked on a commercial project a few years back that built and utilized a database of events throughout history to display “Today in History” results. That venture slowly went belly-up so here I was with this database of Tens of Thousands of events that had been so painstakingly added to this database, so what could I do with them.
Well today is the answer and fulfillment of that question. I give you the Today In History Widget so that you can display interesting facts and figures for your readers. So I hope you will enjoy this plugin, and if you do feel free to send us your questions or comments, and if it is working well for you I hope you would consider donating to help further the development.
Thank you for this plugin. A great addition for my blog! As an Aussie though, I admit I’ve disabled the US History section … didn’t want the events to be too populated with US based info. 😉
I also changed the credit line a little – hope you don’t mind. The font size was too small to read I thought at only 8px, so I changed it to 10px then changed ‘provided by’ to simply ‘by’ so it would fit on one line.
Sue, Glad to hear that it is working well for you.
and don’t worry about disabling the US History category section, that’s why the option was added.
Enjoy
So excited about this plugin! Thank you so much for creating it! I was wondering if there was anyway to set the date to PST as it seems to be a day ahead (posting a March 1st day instead of Feb 29th)? Also, I don’t know how to work with CSS code, and was wondering if there was anyway to make the date read just the month, date, and then the year in parenthesis – ex: March 1st (1872)
This plugin is FANTASTIC and I think our readers are going to love it!! Thank you so much!
I’m glad that you are liking the plugin, and I will see what I can do to get your suggestions integrated.