Title: Posts On This Day Author: Jeremy Herve Published: March 9, 2021 Last modified: February 27, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/posts-on-this-day/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=2490298) ![](https://ps.w.org/posts-on-this-day/assets/icon.svg?rev=2909306) # Posts On This Day By [Jeremy Herve](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeherve/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/posts-on-this-day.1.5.7.zip) * [Details](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-on-this-day/#description) * [Reviews](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-on-this-day/#reviews) * [Installation](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-on-this-day/#installation) * [Development](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-on-this-day/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-on-this-day/) ## Description If you’re familiar with services like Google Photos, TimeHop, or even Facebook Memories, you most likely enjoyed getting little reminders of what happened in your life in years past. This little widget brings this feature to your site. This widget, just like Google Photos does, will give you a list of posts that were published at around this time (within a week) in the past years. You can choose: * how many years back it should go. * how many posts should be displayed at maximum. * what post types to pick old posts from. * whether you’d like to display thumbnails for those posts. * whether you’d like to group your posts by year. * whether you’d like to look for posts on the exact day, years past, or around this time (within a week). Banner image: [@rirri01](https://unsplash.com/@rirri01) ## Screenshots * [[ * Widget settings ## Installation * The usual. Go to Plugins > Add New, search, and install. * You can then go to Appearance > Widgets or Appearance > Customize to set up your widget in one of your widget areas. ## FAQ ### I want to customize the look of my widget You have 3 ways to do so. 1. You can add custom CSS to your site, targetting the `.posts_on_this_day` container and its contents to have the widget fit your needs. 2. If you’re comfortable with PHP, you can add a code snippet that hooks into the ` jeherve_posts_on_this_day_post_markup` filter to customize the look of each single post in the widget. That’s a good way to change the size of the images displayed for each post, for example. 3. You can also use the `jeherve_posts_on_this_day_widget_before_posts` and `jeherve_posts_on_this_day_widget_after_posts` filters to add extra markup around the list of posts in the widget. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a00adf84c1480228dba7490cee2b323c02197c190ff4432cb2b520af3cc3f148? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[A lovely little addition to any site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-lovely-little-addition-to-any-site/)󠁿 [Alex](https://profiles.wordpress.org/flaminhotdog/) December 16, 2025 I have used this plugin for years and have always loved it – it’s great if you have posts buried from long ago that deserve some limelight, and if you enjoy seeing what you were writing about in years past. It works perfectly for its intended purpose and offers a decent amount of flexibility, and the developer is very responsive to issues and feedback. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4052db434ab982650d5b4b61527674cb287ed637871440b1ddc8333bad5463be? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[НЕ подходит](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/%d0%bd%d0%b5-%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b4%d1%85%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b8%d1%82/)󠁿 [Andrew](https://profiles.wordpress.org/papex/) May 12, 2025 3 replies Он только делает список все постов за этот день. На нашем сайте их сотни. Нам столько не надо. Нам надо выбрать из них. Этого нет. [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-on-this-day/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Posts On This Day” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Jeremy Herve ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeherve/) “Posts On This Day” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/posts-on-this-day/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Posts On This Day” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/posts-on-this-day) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/posts-on-this-day/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/posts-on-this-day/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/posts-on-this-day/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/posts-on-this-day/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog ### [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. ## Meta * Version **1.5.7** * Last updated **2 months ago** * Active installations **60+** * WordPress version ** 5.6 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * PHP version ** 8.3 or higher ** * Languages * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-on-this-day/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-on-this-day/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-on-this-day/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-on-this-day/), and [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-on-this-day/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/posts-on-this-day) * Tags * [on this day](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/on-this-day/)[widget](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/) * [Advanced View](https://sa.wordpress.org/plugins/posts-on-this-day/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-on-this-day/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-on-this-day/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-on-this-day/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-on-this-day/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-on-this-day/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-on-this-day/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-on-this-day/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Jeremy Herve ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeherve/) ## Support Got something to say? 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