Liturgical Day of the Week
Liturgical Day of the Week (LDotW)
I had a parish request I incorporate the LDotW wording and color onto their newly redesigned website. I was going to initially make this specific to their site, but then realized this could be adapted to serve a lot of Catholic parishes.
What helps make this plugin a bit unique (especially on its initial release) is the fact that we can handle alternate text as needed. Some Dioceses / Churches need to utilize alternate LDotW titles, which differ from the “standard” ones.
The “Saint of the Day” is now a core part of this plugin, which allowed me to retire the “Saint of the Day” plugin.
This version also brings a few more configuration options, allowing you full control of the output. It also brings a nice visual view when configuring the shortcode options via the shortcode builder.
In addition to that, this version moves the time zone settings to a more centralized location to streamline the plugin. Plus, there was a bit of code clean up to reduce the overall file size and wasted space within the plugin.
Remember to deactivate and delete the “Saint of the Day” plugin, if installed/activated, please.
PLANNED: Incorporating LDotW calendars for other denominations. Version 1.0.0 – 2.0.0 is specific for the Roman Catholic Churches of the United States.
Current Version 2.0.1
Features:
- Shortcode builder lets you set whether to display alternate titles, as a result of your parish having slight deviations from the standard Liturgical Calendar (Boston, Philadelphia, etc, use a slightly modified Liturgical calendar from the rest of the dioceses).
- Saint of the Day, as well as Feast, Memorial and Solemnity indicator.
- Some days have more than one color present. Version 1.0.3 introduces an indicator (color wheel with mouseover visual cue) when present for that day.
- Works anywhere you can use shortcode.
- Only background color and text color defined via CSS. You can control the look/feel by adding your own CSS styling to a specific CSS class
- Now updated through the December 31st, 2026.
- Now handles Time zone and Daylight Savings Time detection automatically (both can be managed via toggles; see shortcode builder).
This plugin is not compatible with WordPress versions less than 5.2.. I’ve bumped the minimum PHP version to 8.0 (or newer; though you should be on 8.2 by now. We’re running this very nicely on PHP 8.4.13).
TROUBLESHOOTING:
- Check the FAQs/Help located on WordPress’ Plugin page, or the Support forum on WordPress.org’s plugin area.
- The Shortcode Builder has been extensively tested with both jQuery version 1.12.4 and 3.5.1, without any issues. The output, however, does not need jQuery/JavaScript.