Cool Timeline

Cool Timeline enables you to create visually striking and informative timelines. It offers both horizontal and vertical layout options.

Creating a timeline is straightforward and intuitive: simply create posts, set images, and assign dates. The plugin will automatically organize your posts in chronological order, whether you prefer ascending or descending.

If you’d like this plugin enabled on your website, use our  Web Request Form.

Adding a Timeline to your page

Via Shortcode

  1. Select Timeline Addons on your WordPress Dashboard
  2. Select Add New Story. Here, you will add the content associated with one item of your timeline. Enter the title, the content, a featured image, the date, etc.
  3. Once you’ve finished adding your timeline items, navigate to the page you would like it to appear.
  4. Select the plus sign to “add a new block.” Select the Cool Timeline Shortcode. Your shortcode will appear in the space.

Publish your page to see the results!

Via Guttenberg Block

With this option, you will build the entire timeline on the page you’d like it to appear.

  1. Navigate to the page you would like the timeline to appear.
  2. Select the plus sign to “add a new block.” Select the Cool Timeline Block.
    • A timeline will appear with items already filled in with placeholder content. Edit each item individually.

Styling your timeline

If you used the Shortcode option:

There are several options in the Block Styles Panel on the right side of your dashboard. Here, you can set the following:

There are additional settings under Timeline Addons > Timeline Settings

If you used the Block option:

There are several options in the Block Styles Panel on the right side of your dashboard. Here, you can set the following:

Demo

The Birth of the Demon Deacon
The Birth of the Demon Deacon
1923

The nickname “Demon Deacon” is coined by sports editor Mayon Parker of Ahoskie newspaper. WFC athletic teams were known as the Tigers in the late 1800s, followed by the Baptists in the early 1900s. Despite the coining of the Demon Deacon nickname, there would not be an official mascot until…Read More

A tradition is born
A tradition is born
1941

Jack R. Baldwin (’43) took on a fraternity brother’s dare and dressed up as he thought an old-time Baptist deacon would: top hat, tuxedo, and carrying a black umbrella. At a game against Carolina, Baldwin road into the stadium on the back of a ram, an act that grew favor…Read More

The costume evolves
The costume evolves
1980

Demon Deacon gets himself a complete costume with the large deacon head.