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WP SIMILE Timeline

Integrates the SIMILE Timeline into WordPress and provides an option interface for the various timeline settings.

By freshlabs·API·Free
3.3(3 reviews)
·20 active installs·Updated 4 years ago
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As of April 2026, WP SIMILE Timeline is a WordPress api plugin with 20 active installations and a 3.3/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 32K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Consent API.

3.3/53 reviews
20active installs
32K+total downloads
18 yearssince 2008

Overview

This plugin integrates the SIMILE Timeline into WordPress and provides an option interface for the various timeline settings.
Developed by SIMILE Labs, the Timeline is a web widget for visualizing temporal data.

Features:

  • Include individual categories to be displayed in the timeline
  • Build a lifestream timeline with RSS feeds from your WordPress link archive
  • Customize colors for timeline bands and categories
  • Supports multiple instances on different pages by using a template tag
  • Display individual icons or images with custom fields
  • Display image attachments from posts in the timeline
  • Comes with English, German, Italian and Spanish language files

Thanks to:

  • SIMILE Project for providing the Timeline script API and releasing useful, semantic applications.
  • John Lim of PHP Everywhere for crea…
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Ratings & Reviews

3.33 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress5.3+ requiredTested up to 5.7.15
PHPfalse+ required

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Changelog

0.4.9 (26/09/2014)

  • WordPress 4.0 compatibility
  • Fixed start and end dates for posts
  • Fixed faulty SQL queries
  • Various bugfixes

0.4.8.6 (10/01/2013)

  • Fixed wpdb::prepare() calls with second parameter

0.4.8.5 (21/03/2012)

  • Fix for custom taxonomies with empty query_var
  • Fixes ‘insufficient permissions error’ when deleting hotzones
  • …
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

freshlabsfreshlabs
Plugin Info
Version
0.5.3
Last Updated
May 6, 2021
WP Requires
5.3+
Tested Up To
5.7.15
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
20
Downloads
32K+
Added
Oct 8, 2008
Business
Free

Tags

apisimilewidgetjavascriptvisualization

Developer

F
freshlabs
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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