Introduction

This plugin was inspired by “On this day” in Wikipedia’s home page. It can list posts which have same calendar date as today’s or as specific post’s.

Features

• Full Customization of HTML
• Widget Support
• Automatic appending list – No need to add codes
• Upcoming Old Posts Reminder in Dashboard
• Options Page
• Search Form – Search Posts by Partial Date
• Complete Deactivation
• Translations (Help Translate)
  • bg_BG – Bulgarian by Yovko Lambrev
  • zh_TW – Traditional Chinese

Screenshots

Demonstration

Please check this demo blog post out.

Download

Please download this plugin source in WordPress Extend, files are not provided in this project space.

Installing

1. Copy directory OnThisDay to wp-content/plugins (NOT directory on-this-day). You will have something like /wp-content/plugins/OnThisDay/OnThisDay.php.
2. Activate “On This Day” in plugins page.
3. Set options, add “On This Day” widget at sidebar, or add OTDList() to sidebar, or main post loop.

Upgrading

This section will tell you, do you need to upgrade and anything you have to pay attention while upgrading.

0.2.3 to 0.3

• Three are two more options “Include pages” and “Exclude current year’s posts” in General Options has been added in 0.3, some behaviors may be changed.

0.2 to 0.2.1

• Steps: Deactivate 0.2, remove 0.2, upload 0.2.1, activate 0.2.1.
• All old options will be removed, such limit, excerpt length, etc.
• OTDList accepts only $targetPost. You can only customize HTML using settings in Options page.

0.1 to 0.1.1

• Just override
• If your WP can do date search normally, then you don’t have to upgrade.
• Upgrading to 0.1.1 can ensure including the JavaScript code only once. In another words, save little bandwidth.

Uninstalling

From version 0.5, OTD allows you to remove all settings for OTD as well as deactivation of OTD.

• Go to OTD option page.
• Click “Deactivate Plugin” at “Management” section on right side.
• Remove directory OnThisDay from plugins.

Usage

Customization

Date Search Form