Comments on: WordPress Plugin: Age Calculator

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:17:35 +0000

Hi Josh… I’ve read this twice and I still don’t get it! The post on backing databases was good though, cheers!

Now, how old is my pet (her name is Zulu) in chimp years?

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:49:58 +0000

Alex: That’s very strange, I have it running on several other sites running 2.9.2… Try replacing the hypens with slashes and see what happens:

[agecalc birthdate="1978/01/30"]

I’m curious to see what happens. I’ve added it to this post as a test too…

By: Alex Mann

Alex Mann — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:08:30 +0000

I must say I already made a test without aditional parameters and without asterisks:

Mi name is Alex and I am [agecalc birthdate="1978-01-30"] years old.

but this didn´t work either. In both cases, I don´t get any error messages, but just no output.

Thanks again.

By: Alex Mann

Alex Mann — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:06:42 +0000

Hi! I think your plugin is a great idea, but although simple as it seems to use, I can´t get a result in my page. I´m using WP 2.9.2. There is an incompatibility issue with that version? I made a single page in WP with this text: Mi name is Alex and I am [agecalc *birthdate="1978-01-30"* year="" years="" multipliery="" month="" months="" multiplierm=""] years old. I´d really appreciate if you or anyone can give me a hint, thanks in advance!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:44:22 +0000

Yes, the plugin could be called directly from PHP although it would be difficult as it relies on many of the built-in functions of WordPress to function correctly.

By: Radik

Radik — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:09:53 +0000

Hi Josh, thank you for the plugin. I’m trying to hardcode the quicktag into php page (to use your plugin with Custom Fields) and it doesn’t work. Nor it works within post title. I guess, quicktags are not supposed to be placed in php, I’m new to php. Can your plugin be used within php, instead of quicktag? Thanks.

By: Thank You

Thank You — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:21:18 +0000

The month calculation doesn’t seem to be correct yet. It seems to be rounding upwards, but years calculation is fine. Vs Anton’s comment, I might suggest you let users specify the format the age is output in, such as %Y% years, %m% months, %d% days for Anton’s version, or %M% for total months (27 if 2 years 3 months) and %D% for total days. You could do lots with this, but it works great as is for the user I was looking for. Thank you!

By: Anton Woldhek

Anton Woldhek — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:39:46 +0000

It would be cool if the plugin could show age in years, monts & days. So Josh is now 25 years, 3 months and 6 days old.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:24:18 +0000

Kjell: Thank you – I’ve made the change to the source and uploaded to WordPress!

By: Kjell Harald Andersen

Kjell Harald Andersen — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:24:49 +0000

Hmm, that example code turned out a bit strange.

Anyway, this was the original line 65:
$months = $cM – $dM;

And this is what I think it should have been:
$months = $cM – $bM;