TDLC Birthdays for WordPress

Update: I’ve revamped the plugin and improved it’s security, performance and styling. And also, I’m in the middle of adding a feature to send out Birthday Emails to members. You will see that I’ve created a settings page, and also most of the code has been created. However, I’ve ran out of time to get this completed, for now, and thought I’d send out the updated plugin, as it’s now significantly improved.

This is a Plugin that creates a multi-instance ‘Birthdays’ Widget that you can use in your Buddypress pages. Once you’ve created a datebox field in the Buddypress profiles and referenced it in the TLDC Birthdays widget settings, the widget will display the list of either all BP users or just the connected user’s friends whose birthday is today and also, if you like, the list of upcoming birthdays within the next n days. Plugin now supports Andy Peatling’s Buddypress Followers plugin when installed, so that you can also track the birthdays of people you follow.

So to sum up, in order to get things to work, you’ll need :

A birthday field in the Buddypress extended profile settings

Users to fill it out in their profiles

The TDLC Birthdays widget properly installed and set up (see Installation)

Features :

Display only friends, or followed people (if BuddyPress Followers plugin is installed), or everybody’s birthday

Display upcoming birthdays within a range of your choice, or just today’s birthdays

Hide or show ages

Optionally suggest your users to fill out their birth date if not already done

Multiple widget instances now supported !