Date managment for minimalists

#wcch 2014

date management

for minimalists

date management

for minimalists

# 1

# 2

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-1h-2h

-2h

-17h

-22h

-22h

-23h

Apr 28

Apr 16

Jan 3

Dec 19

in WP

structure =

publication date

in real life?

publication date

≠ event date

may 18

june 6

feb. 2015

1892

1930

1955

requirements

flexible date output

fuzzy dates!dates for everything

?

plugins?

testing

things

we

don’t

want

issue #1

date pickers

(don’t allow

fuzzyness)

issue #2

mandatory

event

CPT

solution:

write your

own plugin

yyyy-mm-dd

'meta_query' => array( array( 'key' => '_mem_start_date', 'value' => array( '2012-01', '2012-03-32' ), 'compare' => 'BETWEEN' )

showcase!

tl;dr

use WP core features

#1

make no assumptions about user

content

#2

be easily replaceable

#3

thank you ;-)

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