Alan Levine recently posted his description of how to add an overview to your blog of postings from previous years on the same date as today. He turned it into a small WordPress plugin, allowing you to add such an overview using a shortcode wherever in your site you want it. It was something I had on my list of potential small hacks, so it was a nice coincidence my feedreader presented me with Alan’s posting on this. It has become ‘small hack’ 4.
I added his WP plugin, but it didn’t work as the examples he provided. The overview was missing the years. Turns out a conditional loop that should use the posting’s year, only was provided with the current year, thus never fulfilling the condition. A simple change in how the year of older postings was fetched fixed it. Which has now been added to the plugin.
In the right hand sidebar you now find a widget listing postings from earlier years, and you can see the same on the page ‘On This Blog Today In‘. I am probably my own most frequent reader of the archives, and having older postings presented to me like this adds some serendipity.
From todays historic postings, the one about the real time web is still relevant to me in how I would like a social feed reader to function. And the one about a storm that kept me away from home, I still remember (ah, when Jaiku was still a thing!).
Adding these old postings is as simple as adding the shortcode ‘postedtoday’:
There are 8 posts found on this site published on April 10
- April 10, 2024
- Stichting ActivityClub Sinds gisteren bestaat de Stichting Activityclub die onderdak biedt aan mastodon.nl maar ook plek kan bieden aan andere ActivityPub platformen. Met @eelcom@mastodon.nl (vz) en @Mndell (secr) vorm ik (pm) het oprichtingsbestuur. https://info.mastodon.nl/posts/20240409_stichting_activityclub_opgericht/
- Three Questions About Annotating In Hypothesis Three questions for @chrisaldrich about annotation and using Hypothes.is. After reading the book Annotation by Kalir and Garcia (2021)
- May 14th – My 40th Birthday (Un)Conference / May 15th – BBQ Party In a little over a month, it will happen. The (un)conference and BBQ party coinciding with my 40th birthday, which I announced last fall, will definitely take place. The theme is ‘Working on Stuff that Matters’. Elmine’s birthday conference 2008 (photo left by Elmine, cc by nc sa) Working on Stuff that Matters Are you […]
- Ponzi Scheme Interrupted I was rereading an article this week on Madoff, the guy who ripped of major worldwide investors. His actions have been denounced as a Ponzi scheme. What I find interesting, ironic even, is how it seems to me those duped investors don’t realize (or don’t want us to realize) that our entire monetary system is […]
- VoIP Uptake I spoke to a very good friend of mine who works for Agile, out of Switzerland. Agile is in the process of switching over to VoIP entirely for their intense international telephone usage. Telco’s beware; it’s not just a possibility or trend. It is happening.
- Embryonal photoblogging My partners mother is an avid photographer. She used to have her own dark room etc. Since some time she’s experimenting with digital photography quite successfully, and whenever we visit Elmine’s parents a new set of pictures will decorate the kitchen door. As a kitchen door is hard to pass around to others to look […]
- The Importance of Showing Appreciation I have thought a bit if I wanted to blog this, but here goes anyway. This afternoon we, being me and a couple of colleagues, organised a session on cooperation between organisations involved in youth care, and the role of ICT as an enabler for cooperation. There were three presentations and a forum discussion afterwards. […]
- Blogging: Why would you, why do you? In preparation for her paper to be presented at the Blogtalk Conference in Vienna on May 23rd and 24th, Lilia Efimova published two on line questionnaires: One for bloggers: http://blog.mathemagenic.com/blogtalk/blogger.htm One for would-be bloggers: http://blog.mathemagenic.com/blogtalk/wouldbe.htm The goal of this study is to understand factors that support or inhibit adoption of blogging by comparing bloggers and […]
Thanks again for being an early trier if the plugin. I’m not quite sure what the difference was, perhaps the context of the query loop being different in a sidebar. As long as it works things are good.