Patch to Make Calendars Optionally Category-Specific

[jacobrose]

First submission to wordpress...the nice people on wp-hackers directed me here. Here's my post to the list, explaining what this is:

I'm new to WordPress and building a custom template for my new personal site. My design calls for a calendar that stays within a given category, and I couldn't find a way to do that; using "get_calendar()" on my category archive page returned a calendar with all posts in it, therefore providing navigation to pages outside the selected category (which didn't work out).

I have patches to the get_category, get_month_link, and get_day_link functions that let you have in-category calendars (see attached diffs for wp-includes/general-template.php and wp-includes/link-template.php). You can use the modified calendar on the archive page like so:

$cat = array_shift( get_the_category() );
get_calendar( true, $cat->cat_ID );

I'm not sure if that's the canonical way to find the archive page's category id (I kinda doubt it), but it works.

I don't have any other contributors to my site planned, but it wouldn't be hard to make the calendar glue itself to the author in the same way...but is there a standard WordPressian way to accomplish this without modifications like these?

Thanks for any feedback and thanks for WordPress!

[westi]

This sounds like an interesting feature.

It maybe plugin material but if the changes to core are minimal to support calendars that follow the current cat/author for the relavent archive pages then it is probably useful

The template tag should be able to detect the cat/author automatically though.

Maybe we need get_calendar varient - get_archive_calendar that gives you the relavent calendar for the type of archive being displayed - post (same as current) / cat / author (both get limited calendars).

Template authors could then use those.

Push this enhancement to 2.4 and adding needs-patch as current patches do not apply.

[westi]

This is next of my todo list.

[westi]

Move to 2.6 as I haven't got anywhere with completing this yet :-(

[westi]

I never got to doing this, it would be a nice thing to have but isn't high priority.

[chriscct7]

Closing as maybelater. Complete lack of interest on the feature on the ticket over the last 8 years. Feel free to reopen when more interest re-emerges (particularly if there's a patch)