Use As Historical Calendar

[Thomas Murphy]

Hi,

I’m looking to purchase your event calendar for a project I am working on with my partner. However, we have a twist.

The website will be devoted to a specific historic period – which means everything happens in the past. Is it possible to fool your calendar into believing the current date is a date in the past (say 50 / 60 years ago) and have it calculate events and so on from that date?

So, today is actually 16 July 2017 but I would like the calendar to believe it is 16 July 1967 (or any other start date). Is there a way I can either subtract a given number of years from the current date so that the calendar believes today is 16 July 1967, tomorrow it will think it is 17 July 1967 and so on?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

[Cliff]

Hi, Thomas.

Thanks for your interest in our plugin suite.

I’d guess the cleanest way to implement this is to get the current day/month and then redirect to the month you want. For example: if today is July 2017 and you always want it to be 50 years in the past, you could redirect http://wpshindig.com/events/ to http://wpshindig.com/events/1967-07/

You wouldn’t need any of our paid add-ons to try this out. Therefore, I’d suggest you try this out with our free The Events Calendar core plugin.

If you need some coding help, you may want to ask your developer or reference our documentation and list of known customizers.

Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

[Thomas Murphy]

Hi Cliff,

Thanks for the reply. That really helps us to think about the design and feel of our website. I should be able to get my head around the documentation when we’re ready!

[Cliff]

Sounds good! Have a good one.

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