By webvitaly

April 13, 2023

Extra Shortcodes Plugin

[extra_archives], [extra_taxonomies], [bloginfo show="name"], [date format="l jS \of F Y"], [date_i18n], [time]

Shortcodes:

[extra_archives] – list of monthly archives links sorted by date;
[extra_archives type="yearly"] – list of yearly archives links;
[extra_archives type="monthly"] – list of monthly archives links;
[extra_archives type="weekly"] – list of weekly archives links;
[extra_archives type="daily"] – list of daily archives links;
[extra_archives type="postbypost"] – list of all posts links sorted by date;
[extra_archives type="alpha"] – list of all posts links sorted by title;
[extra_taxonomies] – list of categories, tags or any other taxonomies;
[bloginfo show="name"] – bloginfo params;
[date format="l jS \\of F Y h:i:s A"] – Monday 23rd April 2012 09:37:57 AM; php date format params;
[date format="l jS \\of F Y h:i:s A" timestamp="+2 years +3 months -20 days -10 hours +30 minutes"] – Thursday 3rd July 2014 06:52:57 AM; relative datetime formats;
[date format="h:i:s A" use_wordpress_timezone="1"] – use WordPress timezone from Settings section;
[date_i18n format="l jS \\of F Y h:i:s A" timestamp="+2 years +3 months -20 days -10 hours +30 minutes"] – Четвер, 3 Липня 2014 06:52:57; shortcode based on date_i18n;
[time format="h:i:s A"] – 01:35:08 PM; php time format params;
[year] – 2012, [year plus="3"] – 2015, [year minus="2"] – 2010;
[month] – 4 (in April), [month plus="10"] – 2, [month minus="8"] – 8;
[month_name] – April, [month_name plus="10"] – February, [month_name minus="8"] – August;
[day] – 8, [day plus="3"] – 11, [day minus="2"] – 6;
[weekday] – Monday, [weekday plus="5"] – Saturday, [weekday minus="5"] – Wednesday;
[hours], [minutes], [seconds];

more info about shortcodes

Useful:

Parameters for [extra_archives]:

[extra_archives] – list of monthly archives links sorted by date;
[extra_archives type="yearly"] – list of yearly archives links;
[extra_archives type="monthly"] – list of monthly archives links;
[extra_archives type="weekly"] – list of weekly archives links;
[extra_archives type="daily"] – list of daily archives links;
[extra_archives type="postbypost"] – list of all posts links sorted by date;
[extra_archives type="alpha"] – list of all posts links sorted by title;
limit – how many links to be included in the list: [extra_archives limit="10"]; by default all links are shown: [extra_archives limit=""];
show_post_count – display counter of posts in the archive: [extra_archives show_post_count="1"]; by default counter is not shown: [extra_archives show_post_count="0"];
order – how to sort archives links: [extra_archives order="ASC"]; by default links are sorted by descending order (Z-A): [extra_archives order="DESC"];

[extra_archives] is based on wp_get_archives function.

Parameters for [extra_taxonomies]:

orderby – sort list by specific field: [extra_taxonomies order="count"]; by default list is sorted by name: [extra_taxonomies order="name"]; possible values: ID, name, slug, count, term_group;
order – the sort order of the list of pages (either ascending or descending): [extra_taxonomies order="DESC"]; by default: [extra_taxonomies order="ASC"]; possible values: ASC, DESC;
show_count – display counter of posts in the list: [extra_taxonomies show_count="1"]; by default counter is not shown: [extra_taxonomies show_count="0"];* limit – how many links to be included in the list: [extra_archives limit="10"]; by default all links are shown: [extra_archives limit=""];
hide_empty – show or hide empty categories or taxonomies: [extra_taxonomies hide_empty="0"]; by default empty categories are hidden: [extra_taxonomies hide_empty="1"];
use_desc_for_title – use description for title: [extra_taxonomies use_desc_for_title="0"]; by default the description is used as link title: [extra_taxonomies use_desc_for_title="1"];
child_of – only display categories that are children of the category identified by this parameter: [extra_taxonomies child_of="77"];
exclude – exclude one or more categories (comma-separated list of category ids) from the results: [extra_taxonomies exclude="5,7,9"];
exclude_tree – exclude category-tree (comma-separated list of category ids) from the results: [extra_taxonomies exclude_tree="5,7,9"]; The parameter include must be empty. If the hierarchical parameter is true, then use exclude instead of exclude_tree.
include – only include the categories detailed in a comma-separated list by category id: [extra_taxonomies include="5,7,9"];
hierarchical – list is hierarchical (tree-like) or flat: [extra_taxonomies hierarchical="0"]; by default the list is hierarchical: [extra_taxonomies hierarchical="1"];
number – sets the number of categories to display: [extra_taxonomies number="10"]; by default the number is unlimited: [extra_taxonomies number=""];
depth – how many levels in the hierarchy of pages are to be included in the list: [extra_taxonomies depth="3"]; by default the depth is unlimited: [extra_taxonomies depth="0"];
taxonomy – show list of registered taxonomy: [extra_taxonomies taxonomy="post_tag"]; by default shows the list of categories: [extra_taxonomies taxonomy="category"];

[extra_taxonomies] is based on wp_list_categories function.

Parameters for [bloginfo]:

[bloginfo show="name"] – bloginfo params;
[site_name] – Name of the site;
[site_desc] – Description of the site;
[site_url] – http://site.url;
[wp_version] – 4.5 (WordPress version);
[bloginfo] is based on bloginfo function.

Parameters for [date]:

[date format="l jS \\of F Y h:i:s A"] – Monday 23rd April 2012 09:37:57 AM; php date format params;
[date format="l jS \\of F Y h:i:s A" timestamp="+2 years +3 months -20 days -10 hours +30 minutes"] – Thursday 3rd July 2014 06:52:57 AM; relative datetime formats;
[date format="h:i:s A" use_wordpress_timezone="1"] – use WordPress timezone from Settings section;
[date_i18n format="l jS \\of F Y h:i:s A" timestamp="+2 years +3 months -20 days -10 hours +30 minutes"] – Четвер, 3 Липня 2014 06:52:57; shortcode based on date_i18n;
[time format="h:i:s A"] – 01:35:08 PM; php time format params;
[year] – 2012, [year plus="3"] – 2015, [year minus="2"] – 2010;
[month] – 4 (in April), [month plus="10"] – 2, [month minus="8"] – 8;
[month_name] – April, [month_name plus="10"] – February, [month_name minus="8"] – August;
[day] – 8, [day plus="3"] – 11, [day minus="2"] – 6;
[weekday] – Monday, [weekday plus="5"] – Saturday, [weekday minus="5"] – Wednesday;
[hours], [minutes], [seconds];

Installation

install and activate the plugin on the Plugins page
add shortcodes to pages or posts: [bloginfo show="name"], [site_name], [site_desc], [date format="Y-m-d"], [time], [year plus="3"], [month minus="2"], [month_name]

Changelog

2.2

added [extra_taxonomies] shortcode
updated readme.txt

2.1

added [extra_archives] shortcode
updated readme.txt

2.0

code refactoring
shortcodes cleanup

1.6

added ‘use_wordpress_timezone’ param to [date] shortcode;

1.5

added [date_i18n] (thanks to HeldZ)

1.4

minor changes

1.3

refactor code (all based on relative datetime formats)
reorganized docs
removed “loop” param

1.2

added “timestamp” param to [date] shortcode

1.1

added [bloginfo]

1.0

initial release