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WP PlugIndex currently records What We Were Writing version 1.0.1 as active, updated 29d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
What We Were Writing helps editors prepare a collection of historical posts for a specific calendar date.
Choose a future display date in the WordPress administration area. The plugin finds published posts from the same day and month in earlier years. Select the required posts and save the collection.
On the scheduled date, the [what_we_were_writing] shortcode displays a simple server-rendered HTML list grouped by year. When no collection exists for the current date, the shortcode returns no output.
Features:
Manual selection of posts for any display date.
Automatic search by matching day and month in previous years.
Several posts from one year or from different years.
Simple server-rendered output without JavaScript or animations.
No external services, tracking, or third-party libraries.
Multisite-compatible database installation and removal.
The plugin stores only the display date and a JSON list of selected post IDs in its own database table.
Shortcode
Basic usage:
[what_we_were_writing]
Optional attribute:
title changes the section heading.
Example:
[what_we_were_writing title="Our history"]
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
anniversary
archive
history
posts
shortcode
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.0 · PHP 7.4
Update activity4 Oct 202629d ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
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