Once you have a few years of blogging in your archives, you thus have some history (doh). And I made a little plugin to make it more visible, to generate a list of previous year’s post published on the current day.
Just peek at my own page using this.
It all started with a tweet from John Johnston.
John has an On This Day page that generates a list of his own posts published on the current day. I found it interesting, and guessed he might have used a plugin. I looked at two I found in the WordPress repository, but they did not do the trick, so I took the obvious step of asking John in twitter.
Not surprisingly it was something he wrote himself. Not surprisingly, he shared it.
I gave John’s plugin a try on this blog, but ran into some problems- in the editor, the shortcode was outputting to the top of the screen (I think it might need a (!is_admin()) conditional to make sure it’s not running in the dashboard?) and also, on my page, it was inserting content at the top of the page, above the content I had written (guessing because it hooks the main query).
So I rolled up my sleeves and coded my own, now available as the Posted Today plugin. It provides a shortcode that could be used anywhere in your WordPress site (post, page, widget?) but mainly the intent is for a Page.
Adding There are 17 posts previously published on November 6th
- 2022
- Who Needs a Time Machine When You Have Your Own Blog? If you stay at this old habit of writing in your own space (rather then handing it off to whacky billionaires?) a side benefit is being able to tap into your own past experiences. It’s much more than nostalgia, especially as my human memory banks tend to get leaky over time. Or maybe it’s just […]
- 2021
- On [De]Grading I have not jumped on the #ungrading hashtag but glance at it often and respect the efforts people share to move away from point system approaches and quiz/testing as measures of proxies of quasi-indicators of learning. The participation in the Ungrading Book Club and now EdCamp is impressive. This post has bounced in my heads […]
- 2019
- A Simpler, Account Free, SPLOT This is kind of a big deal for SPLOTs… but then again I thought the plugin version was, and that made nary a ripple. Maybe I need to write an open textbook (SNAP!). A brand new version of the TRU Writer SPLOT WordPress Theme is now available sitting tapping its thumbs waiting for you. It’s […]
- 2018
- Since I Had Not Shaved This Month… Movember it is When working at home one can get lax with the shaving schedule… as it was I was scrubbly already when Cori asked me if I was participating in Movember. Why not? I found I already had an account (might be from sponsoring someone else 2 years ago, was that you Devon?). And it seemed like […]
- 2017
- A Cup of Melbourne It’s been a nice cuppa days here since arriving in Melbourne… My long time friend Jan, whom I knew way back when when we both worked at Maricopa, came into the city to lunch Saturday and walk a bit with me (and enjoy two cups of coffee in the laneway near my apartment). Jan has […]
- Landsat Imagery 30+ Years Later Tony Hirst, absolutely one of the best last of the Bloghicans, wrote the other day of Keeping Up With What’s Possible – Daily Satellite Imagery from AWS. This struck a memory nerve, as this is what I did in the late 1980s for my Masters Thesis in Geology… though it was stone and chisel computing […]
- CogDogRoo Mapping in 2017 You can’t get places without a map, can you? Even if you do not use one, your journey is mapped. Well, I think so, since I adore maps. I was not thinking about putting one together, though, until a tweet from Bruno who saw my tweets from Death Valley, on the drive from Arizona to […]
- 2014
- On Guesting creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by Kol Tregaskes In my travels around the US, Canada, as well as the UK, New Zealand, and Australia I bet I have visited and stayed in the homes of at least 100 people whom I have first gotten to know online. I’ve written recently of […]
- Wikishoot (and that *thing* about wikis) creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by ·S That thing about sensing good light also applies to links. And the people who are linking them. Sometimes, you just get a good intuition. Wiki ShootMe looks like a fun way to add to Wikimedia Commons https://t.co/3N5RRB6vc8 #ccourses via @sjgknight — Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) […]
- The Good, The Bad, and The Elephant Shaped Bell Curve Farm Bias Mostly this blog has no trouble squirting out quarter-baked thoughts; this one has been more… constipated. Same result. Here goes. In which this is my grand stupid theory of how we as single human almost interact with complex systems, like the internet. Lots of people are worrying over it’s climate as it gets less rainbowious […]
- 2011
- Mom’s Friends Give Local Cookielove cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Today was the day many people around here in Mom’s neighborhood were waiting for- a chance for them to show their love and sorrow and memories for Alyce at a memorial tribute at a place […]
- Rhizomic Wondering Giulia created a beautiful animated interpretation of Dave Cormier’s ideas on Rhizomatic Learning for this week’s change11 session. In her post, Giulia put out the challenge to remix her work, and I could not let that slip by, here is my Rhizomic Remix / Wondering Like most times, I started with about 1/8 of an […]
- So Poetic At 16 cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Among the memorabilia curated by my Mom was something I wrote for the confirmation ceremony I did in (?) 10th grade as my last year of religious school. I was pretty much not tuned into the Hebrew School thing but stuck it out cause I […]
- 2007
- When in New Orleans… Hands Off My Beignets! posted 6 Nov ’07, 10.27pm MST PST on flickr Cafe du Monde, the famous spot in New Orleans for coffee and sugar piled on dough fried in fat! As the resident diabetic, I could only photograph the carnage. It’s the night before another great NMC event- the New Orleans Regional Conference […]
- 2006
- Tagging My Way to San Antonio I’m ensconced in the Phoenix Airport (again, love the free wifi, thanks y’all!) waiting for the Southwest cattle call for the flight to San Antonio, where later this week is the NMC Regional Conference. The theme is “New Challenges … New Ideas” with tracks on The Future of Scholarship, Bringing Virtual 3-D Worlds to Reality, […]
- 2003
- Print Styles for MovableType Blogs One of my main reasons for using MovableType (MT) for blogging is that most of the blogs I read that seemed well designed, structurally and graphically, had MT under the hood. And the pages produced are clean HTML, even XHTML validat-able, and the templates use CSS sensibly too (as opposed to osme other blogs that […]
- RSS in Governments This one should grow.. RSS in Government: In this site, we’ll monitor creative uses of RSS to provide information to the public above government information and services…. There seems to be a connection or at least a lot of content from the Utah State Library site that has a great RSS tutorial but they seem […]
The output has CSS classes so you can set some design (like I remove bullets from the years, and change line height, font size for excerpts).
I was going to blog a screenshot yo show today’s output, but realized I had designed a better means. After getting the plugin to actually work (meaning not barfing errors because I dropped a semi-colon!) I started thinking of options for the shortcode. Including the month and day like means with There are 10 posts previously published on January 15th
- 2020
- She Paints Llamas My little big sister Harriet always has display the real artist talent in the family. She’s done it again. A surprise package in the mail came with a new watercolor, this of the llamas that live up the road from Cori and I. She has not set up her easel here yet (especially now that […]
- 2019
- A Plugin For Your Blogged Past Once you have a few years of blogging in your archives, you thus have some history (doh). And I made a little plugin to make it more visible, to generate a list of previous year’s post published on the current day. Just peek at my own page using this. It all started with a tweet […]
- 2016
- A medium Sized Rant on Customer Service and a $5 Keychain I am far from ready and will never do all my blogging on medium.com… but to understand how it works, and just to have a different writing experience, I do like to use it every now and then. Perhaps it will be read more or less, but it is a different form. If I were […]
- When I Grow Up I Want to Be a [Pretend] Cowboy [on the Internet] I’m not sure as a kid if I ever uttered the “I want to grow up to be a cowboy” line (maybe Mom listened to Waylon and Willie). How would a suburban Baltimore kid in the 1970s even get the idea? Easy. TV. I’m digging back in the memory layers for what I might have […]
- 2015
- YAS (Yet Another SPLOT) TRU Collector Not bad for a couple hours of WordPress gnashing. A new Smallest/Simplest Possible Learning Online Tool. Meet the TRU Collector It’s not all that novel. The idea came from TRU Instructional Designers Kelly Warnock and Melissa Melissa Jakubec who will be doing a workshop next Friday on finding openly licensed images (and we will have […]
- The Making of The You Show Episode 1 The You Show has left the gate with our first week of activity, and as usual (well twice in a row), Brian and I return in our dual roles as hosts and back stage techs. In The You Show and … Continued
- A Photo A Day Keeps the Dullness Away We are rolling out today the You Show’s The Daily – a site that will generate a small creative challenge every day at 8:00am PT. A new one will be […]
- 2013
- Fall 2012 ds106 Course Evaluations cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by B_Zedan Ripping the page out of the Jim Groom playbook (again), and as I did when I taught ds106 the first time last Spring in parallel to him, here I share the class evaluations from the Fall 2010 section of ds106. Frankly I love […]
- Howdy, ETMOOC My introduction video for the newly launched ETMOOC – something I might be lukewarm about were it not something that Alec Couros was fostering. His own network connectivity, not the linking for the same of linking, is something you want to be part of- witness over 1000 people who signed up, 200 of them fitting […]
- 2011
- Sorry for Ignoring Book Recommendations My humble apologies- Two weeks ago I asked for recommendations for beach reading and got a great list— and I started one not on the list! I have a good reason- it was a Christmas present from one of my longest known best friends, who wrote inside of it: I hope you still find time […]
And one more enhancement, if you don’t want the excerpts (like maybe in sidebar text widget, you can do this with another shortcode There are 17 posts previously published on November 6th
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I’m pretty impressed 😉
And this got me thinking yesterday, as I was working on an eCampus Ontario project launching in edX plus some other thoughts trying to help my wife figure out things for her course hosted in Moodle. These systems have to try to include the functionality everybody might want, that’s how they get ginormous (and full of menus, options to wade through).
And while they might be extensible via plugins too (that only a server admin can add), it’s different from WordPress in that I, as a site owner, can find or write (and share) my own small extensions to do what I want. It’s much closer, IMHO, to the original dream of the web than dream of something like MS Office (where I still everytime fail to find out how to format tabs).
And we have a prize for early adopters 😉 (the prize is a thank you reply)
I added to the plugin site a place to see examples, so if you use this plugin either share a link or go ahead and fork that readme and do it yourself.
Featured Image: My Photo Made the April Calendar flickr photo by cogdogblogshared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)
Hi Alan,
I’m pretty impressed too. Nice stuff on the options/params.
Mine started as a page template and was stuffed into a plugin when someone on micro.blog was interested.
I don’t see the stuff on admin, although I am using WP5 I’ve Gutenberg turned off?
I didn’t notice the above post problem as I’ve nothing on the page, twas a bit quick & dirty.
I look forward to digging into yours and learning a bit when I get a mo but that is not happening as much as I’d like.
No worries- thanks for the idea that started this.
I love this Alan. I have been thinking about adding a ‘Today’ page to my Collect site for a while. It really adds impetus to collect everything from around the web in one place, such as Facebook and Twitter. Now to work on that.
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