This domain of mine has had stuff on it for a long, long time — before WordPress or MovableType or even Blogger. The original davidgagne.net is, sadly, lost forever. Some pieces of it have been kicking around on my various hard drives and FTP locations for a decade now.

One file that I could never seem to bring myself to delete was an ancient hand-coded HTML <TABLE> listing of a bunch of important events in my life. A few friends of mine actually built a company based on the idea. It was called “ShareTimelines.com”, had a magnificent interface, was all webbed up, and the site — last I checked — is completely dead. I wanted to have that timeline on this site again. I hadn’t updated it in years and years, and I would rather poke hot needles in my eyes than sit and hand-code a bunch of <td>s all day. “It should all be in a database, of course,” I said to myself. “And I should be able to edit it right in the WordPress Administrator, too. And seriously it should be written so that I can just give other people the ability to add timelines like that to their own sites.” ( I should stop talking to myself.)


There was really only one thing I could do. I wrote a plugin. You can see the results in the sidebar on the main page of this site. I am also using a timeline in this post (below) to track the updates I make to the plugin.

Make sure to view the README: Download v 1.332 (10/16/2006)

Timeline Plugin Updates

To Do:

  • handle bug that happens when user is using rich text editor
  • add rss feed for timeline events — requested by jcwinnie
  • create import script — requested by Lorelle
  • let timeline tag accept an optional “title” parameter

Feel free to digg this. :0)