Based on the Catholic Liturgical / Lectionary Calendar, this plugin presents with a colored background associated with that day, plus the day’s title, via a combination of the USCCB Liturgical Calendar, and CatholicCulture.org’s Liturgical Calendar. Two configurable option (time zone offset (saveable), and “Alternate Dioceses) and a simple short-code is all that’s needed.

LIVE demo:
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The SotD plugin is a “sister” plugin (can stand on its own, though) to the Liturgical Day of the Week (LDotW) plugin. There’s a separate toggle within the LDotW WP Admin interface to also show the Saint of the Day within the LDotW plugin output.

Supported Liturgical Colors

In the near future, we will support multiple denomination Liturgical Calendars and Saints. To support them, we’ll also support their specific Liturgical colors, as well. This is the current list of colors we natively support:
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Known Issues / Troubleshooting

There is a known issue with how background opacity/transparency is handled. This is a CSS limitation, and not a limitation of the SotD plugin. When you use the CSS option for “opacity”, that overrides every single child element contained within… even nested child elements. You need to remove the “opacity” CSS item and use the “background: rgba()” item, instead. See the examples below.

Using the following opacity settings:
filter: alpha(opacity=30);
-moz-opacity: 0.85;
-khtml-opacity: 0.85;
opacity: 0.85;

Light Green background

Using the following background settings:
background: rgba(221,221,221,.85);

Light Green background

As you can see, the light green box on the right comes through a bit more clearly. Remove any “opacity” toggles and use the “background: rgba()” toggle, and the plugin’s colors will come through perfectly!

SotD on WordPress.org

Available Toggles/Options

“showcolors” – Within the SotD plugin (not LDotW), you can remove the Liturgical color for that day by setting this toggle to “no” via the WP Admin interface.

Styling the output

The only styling this plugin does is the background color and the text color. This puts the power of you controlling the look and feel completely within your own hands, using the “sotdDiv” CSS class. For the example above, I’m using the same styling as on the WP Admin demo. The below listed code was added into the “Additional CSS” section under WordPress’ built in “Customizer” interface:

.sotdDiv {
	width: 70%;
	margin: 10px auto;
	padding: 5px;
	text-align: center;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 1.13em;
	border: 1px solid black;
}

IMPORTANT: Do not define any background or text colors, please. Those are handled by the plugin, directly and automatically.

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