Hey Fsorrentino,
At the moment it’s not possible due to a limitation with php strtotime() function. The other option is to use a different php function , but using an alternate function would effect the way that current announcements are queried, ordered and displayed on the front end of the site.
Some servers allow dates going back farther, whereas others limit things to 1970.
Moving forward we will look some method for enabling dates dating back that far.
Evan
I appreciate your interest as it is key for Timeline order history. And in all industries is significant influence from ancient Greece.
Hi Fsorrentino,
I have a working prototype of the add-on that I will be releasing. Unfortunately, this has to be released as an add-on to the base plugin, for reasons stated above (date storage/retrieval from the database) and will most likely break backwards compatibility with any announcements you have previously set up.
I am releasing a new version of Timeline Express with some added filters to this new add-on can make use of them.
One that is out, I am going to work on building in the same hooks/filters to the pro version – so any user with the pro version who wants to use this add-on can do so (at the moment this works with the free version only).
Once the above two steps are completed, I will be rolling out the add-on the my site where you can purchase it from. I have been testing things this morning and it appears that all date ranges are now working – since I have worked around the built in php strtotime.
I will post back here again when I get that released to my site.
Thanks,
Evan
Excellent. Fair enough for me bring to your enterprise purchasing the PRO version. So I’ll just tell me that is available. I hope it’s easy to install the filter for which we are not technicians. And it would be nice to get off in the same package, for those who do the installation for 1st time. Regards.
Hi just as a follow up,
I have released our add-on for the historical dates – but as it sits now there is no way to track BC vs AD dates. You can set the dates between the years 1000-9999, but anything between 0-999 will cause issues due to the preceeding 0’s (eg: 0124). Additionally setting the dates to BC would cause some issues in terms of sorting, as there is no real way to specify (in a query) the difference between the years 150BC vs 150AD.
I am currently working on a solution for years 0-999, but for now the limitation is 1000-9999.
https://www.evan-herman.com/wordpress-plugin/timeline-express-historical-dates-add-on/
As I continue to make progress on BC dates, I will post back here.
Thanks,
Evan
