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Blog Timeline for mini stories

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Does anyone know of any blog tools that incorporate a timeline? What I'm essentially wanting to do is write little short mini stories about my life, but on each blog entry I'd want a timeline to appear above it and it would indicate when this story took place. And users could read the stories in chronological order this way. It seems that a stark majority of blogs focus too much on the date it was authored and no organization about when a blog is about. Any ideas?

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TimelineJS is a free and open-source tool that lets you create beautiful and interactive timelines using a Google spreadsheet. You can embed the timeline on your blog using an iframe, and customize its appearance and functionality. You can also add media, such as images, videos, maps, and more, to your timeline entries. More information at https://blog.hubspot.com/website/wordpress-timeline-plugin/getting over it

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The most obvious, simplest and platform-independent way to achieve your request is to format the blog title entries as:

YYYY-MM-DD : title

Another alternative is to alter the publication date. This works very well if all your blog entries are about events in the past. I have used this approach for a news blog, in which stories about news in the media were published with their original publication date.

There are several wordpress plugins. For instance, this one seems to do the job by placing blog entries on a vertical scroll. It is likely that you may need to still follow the suggestion of altering the publication date in order to place things in the correct order.

Finally, if you are using wordpress and feel adventurous enough to try and tweak it yourself, there is a field called "meta" where you can store additional information, and, more importantly, you can retrieve it by modifying the PHP code of your template. You could store a date, retrieve it and display between the title and the main text of the blog post, for instance accompanied by a horizontal progress bar.

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