Admin dashboard widget (and optional daily email) that lists posts published to your site on this day in years past.

Scott Reilly

<p>This plugin provides a simply admin dashboard widget that lists all of the posts published to your site on this day in years past. Users have the option (via their profiles) to opt into receiving a daily email that provides a listing and links to all of the posts published to your site on this day in years past.</p>
<p>Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/years-ago-today/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/years-ago-today/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/years-ago-today/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a></p>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
<p>Developer documentation can be found in <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/years-ago-today/blob/master/DEVELOPER-DOCS.md" rel="nofollow ugc">DEVELOPER-DOCS.md</a>. That documentation covers the numerous hooks provided by the plugin. Those hooks are listed below to provide an overview of what’s available.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>c2c_years_ago_today-email_cron_time</code> : Customize the time of day to email the Years Ago Today email to those who have opted-in to it. By default this is “9:00 am”.</li>
<li><code>c2c_years_ago_today-email-if-no-posts</code> : Override whether the daily Years Ago Today email is sent out on days that don’t have any posts in prior years. By default this value is false, meaning no email is sent in such circumstances.</li>
<li><code>c2c_years_ago_today-email-body-no-posts</code> : Customize the content of the body of the daily Years Ago Today email when it is sent on days that had no posts in prior years. </li>
<li><code>c2c_years_ago_today-first_published_year</code> : Explicitly define the earliest year to be considered when finding earlier published posts.</li>
</ul>


Years Ago Today

It's basically Timehop for your own blog, a nice little dose of daily nostalgia.

This is actually very nice

almost thought I had to code something myself, when I found this. Thanks alot!

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