This Widget lists and links to any posts posted in the same month, week, or day of the prior year. You can limit the maximum number of links to show.
Just place the Widget on your sidebar to display links to any posts posted in the current month of the prior years.
Note: If you don’t have any posts posted matching the criteria you selected the widget will not show at all.
Plugin Updated August 2024
FAQ
What do I do after I activate the Plugin?
Go to the Widgets menu in the WordPress Admin and add the “This Day In History” Widget to your Sidebar or Footer Area.
ChangeLog
3.24.31
- Fixed code to be compatible with PHP8 and WordPress 6.6, thanks to themightymo who was made a contributer.
- Updated links and changed the plugin name to This Day In History Widget.
2.14.26
- Fixed a bug that displayed the wrong date for the first post listed.
2.14.16
- Fixed the option to query All Prior Years so that it did not include this year.
- Added option to change where the date is displayed.
2.14.15
- Added option to choose to query All Prior Years or just Last Year.
- Added option to change display format of the date.
1.3.06.27
- Fixed query to use Month as additional criteria when Day is specified to return only the same day of the same month of the prior year.
1.2.10.25
- Added support for custom length Excerpts.
1.2.04.25
- Fixed broken HTML when more than one posts were posted on the same day.
1.2.04.24
- Removed debug output from start of widget.
1.2.04.08
- Fixed query to use Month as the default criteria if not specified.
1.2.04.06
- Added options to change the date matching criteria to: month; week; or day.
1.2.04.04
- First versions uploaded to WordPress.
