How to make a custom search by day and month
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My blog is a calendar of authors’ birthdays. I would like to create a custom search – a side column feature – that lets the visitor select a month and a day and the search returns the author born on that day who I have written about in the blog.
If you visit The Authors Calendar (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calendar.htm) or Astrotheme Birthday Database (http://www.astrotheme.com/birthdays/) or FemBio (http://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/on-this-day), you will see what I am talking about. Each of these websites has a side column where you select a month, and then within the month you select a day, and they return the people born on that day.
I have read the previous lamentations about search with wordpress.com. But one help suggestion was to use tags to create a custom search. I wonder how to do that. I am not a web programmer, but I can do simple html. What if I were to start putting some kind of anchor tag or tags next to each author name? For example, October 2 is the birthday of Annie Leibovitz. If there were two anchor tags next to the name: “mon=October” and “day=2”, would that be a way to create a custom search database?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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You can’t add tags with HTML, but you can add them like this:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/But personally, I wouldn’t do that. I would simply create links that point to such URLs as:
http://litbirthdays.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/ (all posts for October 9, 2011)
http://litbirthdays.wordpress.com/author/litbirthdays/ (all posts by litbirthdays)
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