Around this date in the past… Widget Edition

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It shows around this date entries/posts in the past (if they exist). It is highly customizable. By default it retreives a week around the current day 1 year ago.

Download

Latest version: Download Around this date in the past… Widget Edition v0.8 [zip]

Installation

  1. Once downloaded the file, uncopress it and upload it through FTP to the server where your Wordpress blog is hosted.
  2. Copy it to the folder /wp-content/plugins/ (you can also copy it to /wp-content/plugins/widgets/ in order to have all the widegts together) .
  3. Activate it through the plugin management screen.
  4. Go to “Themes” > “Sidebar Widgets” and drag and drop the widget wherever you want to show it.

Changelog

0.8

  • Added a dashboard widget (WP 2.7+)

0.7.7

  • Bugfixing release. Show excerpts when present, now for real :)
  • Remove the tags if present on the exerpt
  • Remove "es; in titles

0.7.6

0.7.5

  • $limit variable now works again
  • Adapted the Database query to the new $wpdb->prepare structure

0.7.3

  • Added atd-noentries class

0.7.2

  • Bugfixing release. Changes contributed by Mike Koepke.
  • Ordering in SQL statement wasn’t specify which column to order on
  • Added post_type qualifier to SQL statement as pages would be pulled as well
  • Added new year subtitle display option to hide the year sublist text
  • PostExcerpt and Date weren’t working correctly
  • Code cleanup.
  • Cosmetic changes in output

0.7.1

  • Bugfixing release. Changes contributed by Mike Koepke.
  • New options weren’t initilized correctly when upgrading.
  • Control Screen cleaned up.

v0.7

  • All displayed in a single list with yearly sublists.
  • NEW Feature: display date and/or excerpt.
  • NEW Feature: added CSS markup to allow maximum flexibility on display.

0.6.3

  • Fixed a bug when calling get_old_posts().

0.6.2

  • Fixed a bug when having & in post’s title. Isolated repetitive code in its own function. Changes contributed by Mike Koepke.

0.6.1

  • Fixed a bug when having quotes in post’s title. Thanks to Mike Koepke for bug repporting and helping with fixing.

0.6

  • Added 2 new modes, last X years and since year X.
  • Corrected bug in $start_ago and $end_ago.

0.5.2

  • XHTML valid. Thanks to to Luis Pérez

0.5.1

  • Added the $daysbefore and $daysafter parameters.

0.5.01

  • Now the limit option works, for real ;)

0.5

  • First release. I decided to start on version 0.5 because of preserving version relation with “One year ago” plugin.