WORDPRESS PLUGIN- SIMILE Timeline
The facts and the information about the important and familiar events in history can be provided fastly using timeline in WordPress blogs. What are timelines?
A timeline presents the chronological sequence of interrelated events along a line that helps the reader in understanding quickly the related relationships, by time. Usually this line is drawn from left to right or top to bottom.
Now let us see the SIMILE Timeline plugin. The simplest and fastest way is to add the short code to a WordPress Page or Post i.e [similetimeline]. Timeline is a website widget based on Javascript. It displays an interlinked timeline of events works like Google Maps. The WordPress Plugins – SIMILE Timeline which is newly born would help more people to use the timeline in their WordPress Blog easily.
Integration of SIMILE Timeline into WordPress is done by this plugin and it provides an option interface for the various timeline settings.
SIMILE Labs has developed this plugin. To visualize the temporal data, Timeline as a web widget is very useful.
Features of the SIMILE Timeline plugin:
§ It Includes individual categories to be displayed in the timeline
§ From your WordPress link archive, a lifestream timeline is build with RSS feeds
§ Facilitates customizing the colors for timeline bands and categories
§ By using a template tag this plugin supports for multiple instances on different pages.
§ Individual icons or images can be displayed with custom fields
§ Image attachments are displayed from the posts in the timeline
§ It Comes in different language files such as English, German, Italian and Spanish.
Coming to installation the steps are as follows:
1. Unpacking Uploading the folder wp-simile-timeline to wp-content/plugins.
2. In the admin panel, activate this plugin
3. Visit the Options page (Options > SIMILE Timeline) and initialize the plugin.
4 .The timeline form is generated by selecting a category.
5. The page order post IDs have to be entered in the place of timeline by which the Javascript is loaded only on page of timeline.
Using this SIMILE Timeline in WordPress blog.
1. The shortcode [similetimeline] is added to your post or page where the timeline should be displayed.
- The output by the timeline is given by choosing the category under Options > Timeline.
- In that category the posts are written.
Now you can see the timeline on the page where you’ve included and it displays all the posts in the defined category In the WP SIMILE Timeline Plugin’s homepage the changelog can be viewed.
Many features such as defining the start dates for the events, defining the start dates for timeline, creating and edit Hot zones, RSS feeds as input, custom click handler for timeline entries are already implemented and it is expected to implement two bands to a timeline.
I think you can find this application very useful while developing your WordPress development blog.
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