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 14 posts previously published on September 11th
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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
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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 14 posts previously published on September 11th
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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.
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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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