User:Begoon/POTD custom/doc

POTD custom

This is a customised Picture of the day template, the year may be specified.

• It displays the POTD, with caption, automatically, in a box with a border.
• The picture is the POTD for today's date, the year selected between 2008 and the current year (2024) (or at random).
• The image height is limited by a calculation based on width, to prevent excess depth in some portrait images.
  

Usage

Parameter	Description	Default (parameter not supplied)	Format	Example/notes
whichYear	Specifies which year's POTD to use	Pseudorandom from 2008 to current year (2024) incl.	4 digit year	2014
sTwidth	Image width (pixels)	500	Integer	350
caption	Caption for picture	Caption supplied from POTD	Wikitext	May include wikilinks
textOpacity	Text opacity (CSS) (0.0 - 1.0)	1.0	Decimal	0.75
textColour	Text colour (CSS)	darkSlateBlue	CSS colour descriptor	#FF0000
borderColour	Border colour (CSS)	silver	CSS colour descriptor	#FF0000
borderWidth	Border width (pixels)	1	Integer	2

Syntax

{{User:Begoon/POTD custom|whichYear=2009|sTwidth=550|caption=foobar|textOpacity=0.55|textColour=grey|borderColour=#fe3|borderWidth=2}}

Notes

• The textOpacity, textColour, borderColour and borderWidth parameters supply CSS parameters
• The sTwidth parameter takes an integer value, corresponding to width in pixels. The default is 500.
  Depth and maximum-depth are calculated automatically. Not tested in extremely small/large scenarios - use sensible values.
• The whichYear parameter specifies which year's picture to display. It may be given as a 4 digit number between 2008 and the current year (2024) incl., for example:

{{User:Begoon/POTD custom|whichYear=2010}}

• If not provided, whichYear defaults to a pseudorandom year between 2008 and the current year (2024) incl.