Birthdays Widget

[Adriano Faria]

With this plugin you can customize the birthday listing (in Calendar view and in the Today's Birthdays widget) to only show members on their birthday that meet the following criteria:

• Content Item Count
• Reputation Points
• Achievements Points
• Active in the latest X days
• Groups
   

 

[Adriano Faria]

This resource will create a new birthday widget to display birthdays in the following way:

- Current day +3 days in the vertical mode (sidebar):

 

- Current day +7 days in horizontal mode (top or bottom):

 

- Widget configuration:

 

Marketplace listing will be updated when IPS 4.7.3 is out. Price will increase due to new features/additions.

Edited October 4, 2022 by Adriano Faria

[bubblesnout]

Hi, with the changes in IPS 4.7.3 that have removed the Todays Birthdays widget, will this plugin bring that functionality back?

[Randy Calvert]

1 hour ago, bubblesnout said:

Hi, with the changes in IPS 4.7.3 that have removed the Todays Birthdays widget, will this plugin bring that functionality back?

The newest version pending approval works with 4.7.3.  It brings back the birthday widget AND even shows multiple days. (It does not use the calendar system to get data so it can work in the new version.) Check out the screenshots above. 🙂

There is a sidebar and a wider version of the widget.  (This app was originally custom developed for me, so it also has some filtering requirements I had.)

Rumor has it that Adrian is also working on a birthday full page display (that may possibly just happen to coincidentally look like a calendar as well). 

[Adriano Faria]

What's New in Version 1.0.1:

• IPS 4.7.3+ ONLY!
• Add a widget to display birthdays

[Adriano Faria]

FROM NOVEMBER 1ST TO NOVEMBER 30TH.

[Westfield Sports Car Club]

Hi,

Thank you for this plug-in.  For us it fills the gap that IPS left with the latest updates.

We've just purchased it for our forums and I've got a few suggestions if I may?

-1- Ability to give custom block title.  "Birthday Members" is a little odd for English speaking countries.

-2- Ability to only display the current day

-3- Ability to hide the block if there are no birthdays on the current day (in combination with point -2-)

[Adriano Faria]

2 minutes ago, Westfield Sports Car Club said:

-1- Ability to give custom block title.  "Birthday Members" is a little odd for English speaking countries.

It’s a language bit. You can change to whatever you want in your ACP.

2 minutes ago, Westfield Sports Car Club said:

-2- Ability to only display the current day

-3- Ability to hide the block if there are no birthdays on the current day (in combination with point -2-)

Fair enough.

[Westfield Sports Car Club]

13 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

It’s a language bit. You can change to whatever you want in your ACP.

Thank you for your very! quick reply.  I've found the language setting and modified it so it looks a little better for us!

Edited November 15, 2022 by Westfield Sports Car Club

[Adriano Faria]

The block title is used when you can add more than once same block in the page. To change the title:

Or

 

[Westfield Sports Car Club]

Yes, thank you for that.  I did manage to find it and hoped to edit my post before you replied, but you are too quick! 👍

[Adriano Faria]

2 hours ago, Westfield Sports Car Club said:

We've just purchased it for our forums and I've got a few suggestions if I may?

-2- Ability to only display the current day

-3- Ability to hide the block if there are no birthdays on the current day (in combination with point -2-)

New version is pending approval and should be available in a few days.

 

[Westfield Sports Car Club]

Wow, fantastic!  Thank you so much!

[Westfield Sports Car Club]

Hi again, the updated widget works perfectly for us, thank you very much!  One more suggestion if I may?  On the previous widget, the user shown to have a birthday was 'clickable'.  I.e. you could click through to the user's profile from the widget.  Something to consider for the next revision?

[Adriano Faria]

1 hour ago, Westfield Sports Car Club said:

Hi again, the updated widget works perfectly for us, thank you very much!  One more suggestion if I may?  On the previous widget, the user shown to have a birthday was 'clickable'.  I.e. you could click through to the user's profile from the widget.  Something to consider for the next revision?

Are you saying the name or profile photo isn’t a link to the profile?

[Westfield Sports Car Club]

Well...  it was when I was asked about it by one of the Moderators and I checked before I put the suggestion here.  I've just checked again and it does link to a profile.  Not sure what happened now...

[Adriano Faria]

Will check it out. 

[Adriano Faria]

2 hours ago, Westfield Sports Car Club said:

Well...  it was when I was asked about it by one of the Moderators and I checked before I put the suggestion here.  I've just checked again and it does link to a profile.  Not sure what happened now...

Just tested and it's working fine here too:

 

 

 

 

Links to the profile are available for those who can view profiles.

[Westfield Sports Car Club]

Yes, like I said, it is weird that it wasn't working, but it is now...   We'll keep an eye on it

[Square Wheels]

On 10/13/2022 at 12:50 AM, Randy Calvert said:

Rumor has it that Adrian is also working on a birthday full page display (that may possibly just happen to coincidentally look like a calendar as well). 

If this were true, that would be great!

[Square Wheels]

If you use the widget in the sidebar, and there are 18 birthdays on a particular day (as an example), how many will display?

Any updates on a birthday page?  I'm very disappointed in IPS in removing the calendar feature.  It was one of the items that set them apart from Xenforo, and losing the ability to see birthdays is a huge setback for engagement.  I'm sure some big corporate sponsor wanted it removed, and it will now be labeled as something most of us asked for.

[Square Wheels]

19 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

If you use the widget in the sidebar, and there are 18 birthdays on a particular day (as an example), how many will display?

Ugh, sorry, I see I had it set to 1.  I changed it to 999 and now a lot (site has over 10k members) showed up.

For a future update, could the widget have a scrollbar?

Thank you

[Adriano Faria]

6 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

Any updates on a birthday page? 

It was a test. Not good. Dropped. 

6 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

I changed it to 999 and now a lot (site has over 10k members) showed up.

For a future update, could the widget have a scrollbar?

No scrollbar. This is how like any other widget out there. I will decrease the max limit to 25 or 50.  Anyway, you’re free to do what you want in your install. 

[grupots]

After activating the plugin, the following error appears in the block manager

If I deactivate the plugin the error disappears

 

Invision Community v4.7.6
Birthdays Widget 1.0.2

Tested in a fresh new default theme

[Adriano Faria]

42 minutes ago, grupots said:

After activating the plugin, the following error appears in the block manager

If I deactivate the plugin the error disappears

 

Invision Community v4.7.6
Birthdays Widget 1.0.2

Tested in a fresh new default theme

I can't reproduce:

Which PHP version? Post the content of the log. Also if there are other resources, disable them all and leave only this enable to try.

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Edited January 29, 2023 by Adriano Faria