Descripción
The website of the brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo has a nice way to
display news in a retrospective-style (check this
screenshot
or this link
— Flash required).
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could display WordPress posts in our pages and
categories in the same way just by using a shortcode? The possibilities are
many. That’s why I wrote the Retrospective plugin for WordPress.
It has at least two advantages over the version you just saw:
- Does not require Flash (its implementation uses only CSS and jQuery)
- Has a option to respect the (time-)scale of the posts.
See Installation for more info on how to use it.
Capturas
Retrospective plugin in http://juntos.org.br/juntos/internet/ 
Retrospective plugin in a fresh WordPress install using a pure TwentyEleven theme
Instalación
Upload the Retrospective plugin to your blog, activate it, then it’s
installed!
Its use is very simple. Wherever you add the shortcode [retrospective] the
plugin will draw that cool retrospective. The shortcode supports several
attributes:
- count — limit the number of posts to be displayed (default = 10; use -1 to
display all) - cat — display posts with category IDs comma-separated (default =
display all posts) - width — the width of the timeline in pixels (default = 600)
- delay — the time of the focus change animation in milisseconds (default =
1000) - scale — if set, respect the time scale in the distances between the points
in the timeline (default = false) - image_width, image_height — the dimensions of the thumbnail images in pixels
(default = 300×180) - image_border_size — the size of the image’s border in pixels (default = 7)
- image_border_color — the color of the image’s border in hexa RGB (default =
000000) - image_margin — the space between the images (default = 5)
- date_format — the date format in PHP format (default = d/m/Y)
FAQ
- How to style retrospectives?
-
The generated HTML is very easy to style (but just be careful with margins and
paddings, they’re set with !important attribute — I did it to try not to break
with any theme). Here is a sample:<div id="retro-uniquehash" class="retrospective"> <!-- TIMELINE --> <ul class="time"> <li rel="0"><a href="permalink" style="left:0px;"><span>date</span></a></li> <li rel="1"><a href="permalink" style="left:300px;"><span>date</span></a></li> <li rel="2"><a href="permalink" style="left:600px;"><span>date</span></a></li> </ul> <!-- PHOTOS --> <div class="photos"> <ul> <li rel="0"><a href="permalink" title="title"> <img src="file" class="wp-post-image" /></a></li> <li rel="1"><a href="permalink" title="title"> <img src="file" class="wp-post-image" /></a></li> <li rel="2"><a href="permalink" title="title"> <img src="file" class="wp-post-image" /></a></li> </ul> </div> <!-- POSTS --> <ul class="posts"> <li rel="0"><a href="permalink" title="title"><h2>Title <span>(date)</span></h2> <p>Excerpt</p></a></li> <li rel="1"><a href="permalink" title="title"><h2>Title <span>(date)</span></h2> <p>Excerpt</p></a></li> <li rel="2"><a href="permalink" title="title"><h2>Title <span>(date)</span></h2> <p>Excerpt</p></a></li> </ul> </div> - How to style a specific retrospective?
-
The generated hash takes in consideration all the attributes sent to the
shortcode and also how many retrospectives appeared before in the parsing of
the actual page. I made it that way to allow users to set up two exactly equal
retrospectives in the same page. Because of that, I don’t recommend setting
styles for #retro-uniquehash. I think a reasonable solution for this issue is
to make something like<div id="something_that_makes_sense">[retrospective]</div>when inserting the shortcode and then styling #something_that_makes_sense
.retrospective.
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