Plugin for display an history timeline based on tags. You can discriminate the tags, for build timeline, by a regular expression, for each tag this plugin extract a random post from all related posts.

How to install and use history timeline

If you have never use this plugin or a previous version, you have extract the archive file (.zip) and upload the folder history-timeline in wp-content/plugins of your web space. Than activate the plugin in plugin menu of admin control panel.

Copy and paste this code in your article, page or widget content.
[history_timeline]

You can use regular expression for select the type of tags for build timeline, the syntax of regular expression is the same of mysql.

Some examples

- ^[[:digit:]]{4}$ select all tags with exactly 4 numbers (2003,1345).

- ^[[:digit:]]{3,4}$ select all tags with 3 or 4 numbers (150,1345).

- ^[[:digit:]]{1,2}[A-Za-z ]+[[:digit:]]{4}$ select all tags with 1 or 2 numbers followed by Letters and space and next by 4 numbers (3 November 1999, 23 september 2002).

© Copyright Mauro Rocco. History Timeline is released under GNU GPL.