Multiple Timelines in same blog

[hughstew]

I need to have a 4 year timeline and a 300 year timeline in the same
site. It doesn't look like this is possible - is it? I'm not a
coder, so I can't use fancy tricks to do it. Thanks

[Tim]

You can do this if you use attributes for the shortcode [similetimeline].
The parameters that you need would be

cats: IDs of the categories you want to display on the timeline
start: Start date of the timeline
stop: End date of the timeline

Your setup could then look something like:

[similetimeline cats=2,4,5 start=2007 stop=2011] ...to limit the timeline on an interval between 2007 and 2011 and show the content of three categories.

And inside another page:

[similetimeline cats=3 start=1495 stop=1795]  ...for a 300 year time interval.

Hope this helps.

[tru...@gmail.com]

This helps, but is not easy to do for someone who knows nothing about wordpress let alone anything about web development (I'm making this timeline manageable for someone like that). If the plugin had a dialog box for creating these shortcodes in a visual way, that'd be nice. If I come up with something, I'll send it over.

[Ken Albers]

I came across this post on a search to see if you could pass arguments to the shortcode (and I'm excited you can!). I'm curious what other parameters there are. The documentation page in the readme (http://groups.google.com/group/wp-simile-timeline/web/documentation) doesn't seem to exist anymore. Is there a page containing this sort of info now?

Thanks,

Ken