Jeremy Herve

If you’re familiar with services like Google Photos, TimeHop, or even Facebook Memories, you most likely enjoyed getting little reminders of what happened in your life in years past. This little widget brings this feature to your site.
This widget, just like Google Photos does, will give you a list of posts that were published at around this time (within a week) in the past years. You can choose:
<ul>
<li>how many years back it should go.</li>
<li>how many posts should be displayed at maximum.</li>
<li>what post types to pick old posts from.</li>
<li>whether you’d like to display thumbnails for those posts.</li>
<li>whether you’d like to group your posts by year.</li>
<li>whether you’d like to look for posts on the exact day, years past, or around this time (within a week).</li>
</ul>
Banner image: <a href="https://unsplash.com/@rirri01" rel="nofollow ugc">@rirri01</a>

Posts On This Day

Widget to display a list of posts published "on this day" in years past. A good little bit of nostalgia for your blog.

This plugin allows you to enter and manage different kinds of events that you then display in via a widget or shortcodes.
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
There are two shortcodes. <code>[tdih]</code> shows output as a list similar to the widget and <code>[tdih_tab]</code> shows output as a table.
<h4>tdih</h4>
You can add a <code>[tdih]</code> shortcode to any post or page to display a list of events as per the widget.
There are eleven optional attributes for this shortcode
<ul>
<li>show_age (0, 1) – 1 shows the age in years of the event in brackets after the title and 0 does not (default).</li>
<li>show_link (0-2) – 0 shows a more link if there is more to show (default), 1 links the title if there is more to show and 2 always links the title.</li>
<li>show_type (0, 1) – 1 shows event types (default) and 0 does not.</li>
<li>
show_year (0, 1) – 1 shows the year of the event (default) and 0 does not.
</li>
<li>
type – enter a type to show only events of that type. Shows all types by default.
</li>
<li>day (1-31) – enter a day to show only events on that day. Shows all days by default.</li>
<li>month (1-12, c) – enter a month to show only events in that month. Shows all months by default.</li>
<li>year (-9999 to 9999, 0) – enter a year to show only events in that year. Shows all years by default.</li>
<li>period (t, m, y) – show events for today, tomorrow and yesterday. Shows today’s events by default.</li>
<li>classes – enter one or more space separated classes which will be added to the table tag.</li>
<li>max_rows (1-99) – enter a maximum number of events to show. Shows all events by default.</li>
</ul>
Example use:
<ul>
<li><code>[tdih]</code> – This shows year and event types for all event types for today’s events.</li>
<li><code>[tdih show_type=0 type='birth']</code> – This shows year and event but not type for the event type (slug) of birth.</li>
<li><code>[tdih year=1066 max_rows=5]</code> – This shows year and event types for up to five events that happened on this day in 1066.</li>
</ul>
<h4>tdih_tab</h4>
You can add a <code>[tdih_tab]</code> shortcode to any post or page to display a table of events.
There are fourteen optional attributes for this shortcode:
<ul>
<li>show_date (0, 1) – 1 shows the date (default) and 0 does not.</li>
<li>show_dow (0, 1) – 1 shows the day of the week and 0 does not (default).</li>
<li>show_head (0, 1) – 1 shows a header row (default) and 0 does not.</li>
<li>show_link (0, 1, 2) – 0 shows a more link if there is more to show, 1 links the title if there is more to show and 2 always links the title.</li>
<li>
show_type (0, 1) – 1 shows event types (default) and 0 does not.
</li>
<li>
order_dmy (0, 1) – 0 sorts chronologically by year-month-day (default) and 1 sorts by day-month-year.
</li>
<li>type – enter a type to show only events of that type. Shows all types by default.</li>
<li>day (1-31) – enter a day to show only events on that day. Shows all days by default.</li>
<li>month (1-12, c) – enter a month to show only events in that month. Shows all months by default.</li>
<li>year (-9999 to 9999, 0) – enter a year to show only events in that year. Shows all years by default.</li>
<li>period (a, c, l, m, n, t, w, y) – t, m, y show events for today, tomorrow and yesterday. c, l, n, w show events for current, last, next and ISO week. a show all events. Shows today’s events by default.</li>
<li>period_days (1-99) – enter the number of days to show for t, m, y periods only. Shows only one day by default.</li>
<li>date_format – enter a custom <a href="https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php" rel="nofollow ugc">php date format</a> to display the date. Uses the tdih admin setting by default.</li>
<li>classes – enter one or more space separated classes which will be added to the table tag.</li>
</ul>
NB:
<ul>
<li>day of the week will never be shown if the date is not shown.</li>
<li>Setting date_format will override the tdih admin format and the day of the week setting.</li>
<li>Setting period will override any values for day, month and year.</li>
<li>day, month and year can be combined.</li>
<li>year=0 will display events with no year</li>
<li>month=c will display the current month</li>
<li>period=c, l or n show a seven day period with the current day as the middle, last or first day.</li>
</ul>
Example use:
<ul>
<li><code>[tdih_tab period='a']</code> – This shows a full list of events in date order and includes the event type.</li>
<li><code>[tdih_tab show_types=0 type='birth' classes='content dark']</code> – This shows events but not type for the event type (slug) of birth. ” content dark” will be added to the table’s class.</li>
<li><code>[tdih_tab day=20 month=8 date_format='Y']</code> – This shows events on 20th August in any year. Format the date to only show the four digit year.</li>
</ul>

This Day In History

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This "On This Day" plugin allows you to enter historic or future events and display them via the included widget and shortcodes.

Posts On This Day vs This Day In History