Title: WP HTML Rotator Plugin
Author: ariel.coppes
Published: March 16, 2012
Last modified: March 21, 2012
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# WP HTML Rotator Plugin
By [ariel.coppes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arielcoppes/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-html-rotator.0.1.3.zip)
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## Description
Schedule HTML sections to be shown or not based on a date range using a simple shortcode.
Right now the plug-in is enabled by using the rotator shortcode. For example, To
specify we want to show a specific piece of HTML from 9am to 5pm you can use the
following code:
[rotator start=”9am” end=”5pm”]
Some custom HTML.
[/rotator]
Where start and end parameters are using the date format specified in the [php manual](http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php),
so you can specify more specific dates like showing the HTML section all Tuesday
between 10am and 11am, etc. Read the Other Notes section for more information.
Note: the hour range is server based time and the default timezone is UTC, in other
words, it depends on the configured time of the server, you can set that in [general settings](http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/general-settings/)
at the admin console.
There is a page available at “Settings” -> “Schedule generator” in the wp admin
console with a basic form which lets you generate the short code configuring different
values like start and end times, among others.
### Usage
Right now the plug-in is enabled by using the rotator shortcode. For example, To
specify we want to show a specific piece of HTML from 9am to 5pm you can use the
following code:
[rotator start=”9am” end=”5pm”]
Some custom HTML.
[/rotator]
That will show the contents only if the user access the blog post or page in the
specified hour range.
Currently, it supports the following parameters:
* start: a date to specify the start of the hour range, required.
* end: a date to specify the end of the hour range, required.
* visible: false to hide the html section, by default true.
* inverse: to specify if we want to show the html section outside the our range,
by default false.
Both start and end are using the date format specified in the [php manual](http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php).
For example, we can specify the timezone of the hour range:
[rotator start=”9am -0600″ end=”5pm -0600″]…[/rotator]
Note: Using GMT notation doesn’t work in some installations, not sure which php
version is required for that to work.
Note: the hour range is server based time and the default timezone is UTC, in other
words, it depends on the configured time of the server, you can set that in [general settings](http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/general-settings/)
at the admin console.
There is a page available at “Settings” -> “Schedule generator” in the wp admin
console with a basic form which lets you generate the short code configuring different
values like start and end times, among others.
### Configuration
The first lines of the plugin contains some global variables to configure the plugin,
for example, if you want to disable the generator from the admin -> settings page,
among other configurations.
* WP_HTML_ROTATOR_DEBUG: defines if the plugin echoes debug information.
* WP_HTML_ROTATOR_ENABLE_WIDGETS: enables the shortcode to work on text widgets.
* WP_HTML_ROTATOR_ENABLE_GENERATOR: enable the shortcode generator to be shown
in the admin panel or not.
## Reviews
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## Contributors & Developers
“WP HTML Rotator Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ ariel.coppes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arielcoppes/)
[Translate “WP HTML Rotator Plugin” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-html-rotator)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-html-rotator/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-html-rotator/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-html-rotator/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-html-rotator/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
0.1.3
* Changed to use the WordPress timezone configured in [general settings](http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/general-settings/)
as the base timezone instead the default from php based on this [WordPress blog post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-timezone?replies=1).
* Changed name Rotator Generator to Schedule Generator
* Server time is shown in the Schedule Generator
0.1.2
* Added more detail in the Description page.
0.1.x
* Added the shortcode with the default parameters.
## Meta
* Version **0.1.3**
* Last updated **14 years ago**
* Active installations **10+**
* WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher **
* Tested up to **3.1.4**
* Language
* [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-html-rotator/)
* Tags
* [html](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/html/)[rotator](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rotator/)
[shortcode](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/)
* [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-html-rotator/advanced/)
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## Contributors
* [ ariel.coppes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arielcoppes/)
## Support
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