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 15 posts previously published on June 1st
- 2016
- It’s Like Riding an Infographic You really cannot make this stuff up, but someone out there actually does… There are bad visualizations, and then there's the 'bicycle of education'. pic.twitter.com/seigDh715h— Tim van der Zee (@Research_Tim) May 31, 2016 Take a look at that imagery- is that a bicycle anyone wants to ride? Is that an education anyone wants? Can you […]
- 2015
- Leaving #TWP15 Tracks This is just making sure there’s a post in the category in the feed that connects to the Teaching with WordPress thing going on at UBC, being led by good colleagues and friends there. I’ve been using WordPress since April 2005, when it was version. Why do I know that? Because I have a blog […]
- If You Have a Problem with Your Twitter Account, You are SOL? The difference between the photo above and trying to get help from twitter is that there are no dogs on the inside of the door. A new twitter account created for an upcoming educational project in Mexico– essentially does not exist beyond the limits of looking at the account. Yet I get bombarded daily by […]
- 2013
- Slowing on Down the Road Last week in Vermont I took a walk down the same country road I drive when I left the area in September. Going at walking speed I was blown over by how much detail and information I missed on the faster pass. And there is some sort of life lesson that a gazillion have written […]
- 2012
- The Shape of Cool Hand Luke cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This is a fairly literal attempt to draw the shape of the story to one of my favorite all time films, Cool Hand Luke (1967) according to the Kurt Vonnegut approach: In the beginning, since he is drunk and feeling no pain, Paul Newman’s character […]
- 2011
- Sneak Preview! Amazing Stories of Openness 2011 I’m releasing a day early the collection of Amazing Stories of Openness I will show tomorrow at the opening of the ETUG Spring Workshop in Nelson, BC. These are just the videos, for the session, I have a few surprises up my sleeve, and may even gamble on doing a chunk of this w/o any […]
- My PirateBox is a StoryBox cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This little case is going to contain an entire four months of shared, gathered experience on my road tour. Built as a way to easily, anonymously share files and chat over a local network (see David Darts hub site for full details). It establishes a […]
- 2009
- Twitter Archaeology cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog My First Tweet is supposed to find your first chirped status, but it apparently fails if you have gone past the 3000 mark. There used to be a way to manually page back through your twitter archive by munging the page=XX value of the old URLs… but they […]
- 2008
- The Stump Thunk The Punk Stunk To paraphrase an old favorite tongue-twister: A punk sat on a stump. The punk thunk the stump thunk, but the stump thunk the punk stunk My blog hat is humbly dipped to the east to Jim Groom for feverishly launching the spreading EDUPUNK meme (must be in all caps, eh). That photo is scary enough. […]
- 2007
- I Get Web 2.0ed With a Little Help From My Friends It’s the day before I board the Big Old Jet Airliner to the NMC Summer Conference and I am piling on the Web 2.0 Tagging goodness, or zaniness. This recap is as much to document as to thanks those I lean on. Last year, at the 2006 Summer conference in Cleveland, being my first one […]
- 2005
- Watch A Web Site Design Unfold Before Your Eyes This might be a sideways version of a screen cast. At Mboffin.com, Dylan created an animated GIF that shows a screen shot captures for each change as a web site was developed. You can watch it evolve from un-formatted semantic HTML through different iterations of font sizes, creation of the page elements, etc. It’s a […]
- (Softly) Banging WordPress I’ve not had nearly the desired time to monkey around in WordPress (hence the near stock template), but I am hoping over the more slow time of summer to slowly add and tinker and perhaps break. I am still trying to get my mind around the template/tag structure, which is fairly sensible. What I’d really […]
- Doing The Comic Thang One can be a busy blogger just copying the neat things D’Arcy Norman does… liks playing with the gnomz comic creator he wrote about a while back. This is just one of those things that at first you might thing, “What a silly waste of time and computer resources!”, which is true, but don’t be […]
- Jots Rocks After toying a bit with Jots yesterday getting the bookmarklet tool to work, I am getting to like it more and more as a bookmark manager. I might be switching from ‘furling’ to ‘jotting’… It more or less has everything you get with del.icio.us, meaning easy bookmarking, searching, tagging, rss feeds, seeing what others are […]
- 2003
- Happy 50th, DNA Wow, actually I thought the 2003 Double Helix Celebrations site would be a “good dog.” After all, a historical look at the 50th anniversary of Watson and Crick’s discovery of the DNA double helix structure, should be a gold mine. Share this barking on social media
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 11 posts previously published on January 15th
- 2025
- Blog blog blog 2024 In the grand tradition of end of the year blog efforts, the summarizing and blog navel gazing… I failed on finding the energy. And I’m late. But with the inspiration of a legendary academic research paper, I bring you my year in blogging. Blog blog blog “Blog Blog blog Blog Blog Blog“. Blog blog blog: […]
- 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 15 posts previously published on June 1st
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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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