St-Daily-Tip

This plugin displays daily tip on your page using a shortcode or widget.
If you want to display different Expert tips on any topic on your website, you can upload the tips to this plugin and display different tips daily.

** Features **

1. Use Widget or Short Code to display Tips
2. Add the tips manually, or upload in batch from a CSV file.
3. Add Tips with HTML formatting with HTML Editor
4. Group the Tips and display different Tips on different Locations
5. Mention a Specific date or Specific Day of Week to Display Tip
6. Repeat the tips Yearly on Specific Date
7. The Tips that are not displayed will be displayed first before repeating the Tips. The oldest tip ( that was displayed first) will be displayed if no un-displayed tips are left.
8. Repeat the tips Yearly on Specific Date.
9. Export Tips to a CSV file
10. Translate ready!

How To Use

1. Go To Daily Tips In Side Menu

2. Create List of Tips by :
   a. Uploading a CSV file of List of Tips

   The Format of CSV File must be as below :
   The First line must be headers as it is ignored while uploading.
   From the second line, the data should begin in following order :
   Tip Text,Display Date,Display Day,Group Name,Display Yearly.
   Tip Text : The Actual Statement to be displayed.
   Display Date : Any Specific Date in format YYYY-MM-DD when you want to display the Tip.
   Display Day : Day of week (number format) on which the Tip Should Come. (1 = Sunday ,2 = Monday , 3 = Tuesday, 4 = Wednessday …7 = Saturday)
   Group Name : Name Of Group. By Default this is Tip. You can assign a Group to a Tip and can display the tips Group wise.
   Please Note:Display Day is ignored if Display Date is mentioned.
   b. Adding the tips one by one using the Enter Manual Data
   Enter the Tip Text
   You can also enter the text in HTML Format
   Display Date (optional) ** in format YYYY-MM-DD
   Select **Display Day (optional)
   Select Repeat Yearly? (optional) to repeat the tip on same date every year
   Select Group Name to divide the tips in several Groups
   and press Submit

3. To Display The tips, you have two ways:
   a. Use Widget . Mention The Group Name of the Tips you want to display.
   b. Use Short Code [stdailytip group=””] e.g.[stdailytip group=”Tip”]
   c. Developers may also use the PHP Code
   <?php
   if (function_exists('add_daily_tip')) { print add_daily_tip('’); }
   ?>
   Replace with Tip or any other Group Name you want to display
4. The Added Tips will be shown in the table Below
5. You can also edit or Delete the Tip using the Edit and Delete button
6. If Display Date and Display Day are not specified, the tip that is not shown yet (or the oldest shown tip) will be displayed
7. If you have specified a Display Date , the tip will be displayed only on that particular date
8. If Display Date is not specified and Display Day is specified, the tip will only be shown on that date
9. We have not used any styling for Daily Tip. So that it can merge easily in your website.
   To Apply CSS. Use following classes.
   a. tip_container – The main div that contains daily tip, has this class.
   b. tip_text – the div that contains tip_text.
   c. tip_last_shown – div that contains Last Shown Date
   d. tip_title – the div that contains tip_title.
   e. tip_date – the div that contains date.
10. For Developers.
    Use following code in your template php files
    <?php
    if (function_exists('add_daily_tip')) {
    print add_daily_tip('’);
    }
    ?>