A short talk given at WordCamp Switzerland 2014, about the importance of time and date in website architecture, and in WordPress. Presentation of my custom plugin Minimalistic Event Manager: http://wordpress.org/plugins/minimalistic-event-manager/

1. #wcch 2014
date
management
for
minimalists

2. date
management
for
minimalists

3. # 1

5. # 2

10. n

12. -1h
-2h
-2h
-17h
-22h
-22h
-23h

16. Apr 28
Apr 16
Jan 3
Dec 19

17. in WP

20. structure
=
publication date

21. in real life?

28. publication
date
≠event
date

30. may 18
june 6
feb. 2015

32. 1892
1930
1955

33. requirements

34. flexible date output
fuzzy dates!
dates for everything

35. ?

36. plugins?

53. testing

54. things
we
don’t
want

57. issue #1

58. date pickers
(don’t allow
fuzzyness)

59. issue #2

60. mandatory
event
CPT

61. solution:
write your
own plugin

66. yyyy-mm-dd

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

68. showcase!

79. tl;dr

80. use WP core
features
#1

81. make no
assumptions
about user
content
#2

82. be easily
replaceable
#3

83. thank
you
;-)

84. !
icons:
Stopwatch by Scott Lewis
Structure by Mister Pixel
from The Noun Project
CC-BY license

85. typeface:
Encode Sans
Pablo Impallari & Andres Torresi
OFL license

86. @16kbit
Manuel Schmalstieg