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.

Scott Reilly

Audrey Capital

This plugin provides a simply admin dashboard widget that lists all of the posts published to your site on this day in previous years. The same listing can be shown on the front-end via the “Years Ago Today” block (WordPress 7.0+) or the <code>[years-ago-today]</code> shortcode. 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 previous years.
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>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
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.
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<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>
<li><code>c2c_years_ago_today-post_types</code> : Customize the post types included for consideration. Default <code>['post']</code>.</li>
<li><code>c2c_years_ago_today-batch_size</code> : Customize the number of daily emails sent per batch. Default 40.</li>
<li><code>c2c_years_ago_today-to_address</code> : Customize the email address specified for the “To:” field of batched emails. Default “noreply@{site-domain}”.</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!

Exactly what I was looking for

Lists posts published to your site on this day in previous years via admin dashboard widget, block, shortcode, and/or optional daily email.

Posts On This Day vs Years Ago Today