A Decade Ago

Yesterday’s post got me thinking…uh,oh.

I’ve seen quite a few blogs that have links to related posts below the current post, so there must be plenty of plugins out there that would allow me to do something similar, but for posts 10 years ago. Turns out there are not.

In my searching one of the terms I used was “wordpress anniversary posts” and it didn’t turn up what I wanted, but it did lead to a free theme created for WordPress’s 10th Anniversary, which is this year. Looked neat and I tried it for all of 30 secs, but you could customize the header (at least not without a lot of coding), so I uninstalled.

I did find a plugin called A Year Before that looked perfect. But for whatever reason it showed posts from the wrong date about 10 years ago. I had to try several variations in the settings until I got it right. Turns out, instead of putting 10 in the years before box, you had to put 9 in there and then add 365 in the days before box.

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