This blog, in its present form, turned one year old this past weekend. It was a solemn single-candle ceremony. To look back over the previous trip around the sun, I've added a new feature to the sidebar called "One Year Ago", which displays three posts from one year ago. It's kind of a hacked up version of the One Year Ago Wordpress Plugin using my famous Widgetize Anything plugin.
The code used inside the body of the widget is as follows:
$dateago = (date('Y') - 1) . date('-m-d'); global $wpdb; $entries = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' and post_date >= '$dateago' ORDER BY post_date asc limit 3"); if ($entries) { echo '<ul id="oneYearAgo">'; foreach ($entries as $entry) { $post_date = date('F j, Y', strtotime($entry->post_date)); echo "<li><a href=\"" . get_permalink($entry->ID) . "\" title=\"Posted on $post_date\"" . " class=\"tooltipped\">$entry->post_title</a></li>"; } echo '</ul>'; }
You are now free to reminisce to your heart's content.