Posts On This Day

[1.5.7] – 2026-02-27

• General: the plugin now requires PHP 8.3.
• Query: use the site’s configured timezone instead of UTC when determining “today”, fixing a bug where the widget could show yesterday’s posts on sites with non-UTC timezones.
• Caching: fix cache duration calculation to use consistent timezone-aware DateTime objects, and include the current date in the cache key for more reliable daily invalidation. Props @mrclicko.

[1.5.6] – 2025-12-16

• Widget: add 2 new filters, jeherve_posts_on_this_day_widget_before_posts and jeherve_posts_on_this_day_widget_after_posts, allowing one to add extra markup around the list of posts in the widget.

[1.5.5] – 2023-05-08

• Widget: add a new filter, jeherve_posts_on_this_day_widget_year_heading, allowing one to customize the heading used to display years in the widget.

[1.5.4] – 2023-04-27

• Query: do not display private and password-protected posts in the widget.

[1.5.3] – 2021-08-06

• Query: create new filter to allow setting a custom amount of years to fetch posts.

[1.5.2] – 2021-04-15

• Caching: cache data until midnight of the same day, instead of caching it for 24 hours.

[1.5.1] – 2021-04-13

• Add an option to only search for posts on the exact day, years past.
• Improve the display of each post when no post thumbnail can be found.

[1.5.0] – 2021-03-19

• Check for types more strictly.
• The plugin now requires PHP 7.1.

[1.4.1] – 2021-03-08

• Avoid displaying posts twice.

[1.4.0] – 2021-03-08

• Add option to pick post types.

[1.3.0] – 2021-03-08

• Add option to group by year.

[1.2.0] – 2021-03-08

• Add option to display post thumbnails.

[1.1.3] – 2021-03-07

• Update plugin URI for public release.

[1.1.2] – 2021-03-07

• Initial public release.