** by cog.dog **

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Provides a [postedtoday] shortcode that generates a list of posts from previous year on the same month and day as today. Shortcode options let you also to show results for a specific month/day.

• https://cogdogblog.com/this-day/ and https://cogdogblog.com/this-day/jan-15/
• https://budtheteacher.com/blog/posted-today/
• https://coyotechalk.com/this-day/
• http://collect.readwriterespond.com/otd/
• https://blog.ohheybrian.com/otd/
• http://johnjohnston.info/blog/on-this-day/
• https://mrkapowski.com/sitemap
• https://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2020/01/03/on-this-day-jan-3/

1. Upload wp-posted-today folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory (or upload via Plugins the zip file of this repository
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

Use the [postedtoday] shortcode in any page to create a list by year of posts on the current day, includes a post excerpt

For an arbitrary day, include a month= and day= parameter, e.g. [postedtoday month="4" day="1"]

Hide the post excerpts via [postedtoday excerpt="0"]

Use the more='...' option to add text to append a "more" link at the end of the excerpt (e.g. for microblog type posts that lack titles). [postedtoday more="(read more...)"]

Modify output with custom CSS.

Output looks like:

<ul class="todaypost">
  <li><strong>Month Day, Year</strong>
	 <ul>
		<li>
		    <a href="http://blog.blog/blah">Post Title</a> 
		      <span class="today_excerpt">excerpt excerpt excerpt excerpt</span>
		  </li>
	 </ul>
 </li>
 </ul>

Possibilities for CSS include:

Hide bullets for the year list items ul.todaypost > li { list-style-type: none; }

Reduce line height for posts, add margin to space them out ul.todaypost > li > ul > li { line-height: 1.0; margin-bottom: 1em; }

Smaller excerpt size, move below title by making it a block display span.today_excerpt { font-size: 0.8em; display: block; }

• v0.1 Just got it working!
• v0.2 Adjusted the sentence announcing the number of posts to be grammatically correct for a result of 1
• v0.3 Refined call to get current year in loop
• v0.4 Date fixes, html cleanup, output set for langauage translation
• v0.5 Debugged for not showing the count, added option for a "more" tag