Years Ago Today

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2.0 (2026-06-04)

Highlights:

This recommended release adds a block, adds a shortcode, adds an email previewer, adds support for additional post types via filter, improves performance and sending of emails, prevents translations from containing unintended markup, notes compatibility through WP 7.0+ and PHP 8.5+, drops compatibility with versions of WP older than 5.6, and much more.

Details:

• New: Add front-end block and [years-ago-today] shortcode to display the same listing as the admin dashboard widget
  • New: Add get_widget_markup() and get_widget_inner_markup() to centralize listing markup generation
  • New: Register PHP-only block coffee2code/years-ago-today on WordPress 7.0+
  • New: Add public CSS for block and shortcode output
• New: Send full HTML of posts in the email alongside plain text version. Fixes #5. Props akirk.
  • New: Extract HTML email generation logic out from get_email_body() into new get_html_email()
  • New: Add get_html_email_template() to return the template used for HTML emails, with placeholders for subject, body, and footer
  • New: Add get_resized_content() to rewrite image tags in post content to use smaller-sized versions
  • New: Add get_html_email_image_size() to get image size used in HTML emails
  • New: Add filter ‘c2c_years_ago_today-html_email_image_size’ to customize image size used in HTML emails
  • Change: Move amending of footer into get_email_body() and add optional arg to disable that behavior
• New: Add email previewer to preview variations of both plain text and HTML emails
• New: Add support for including additional post types via new ‘c2c_years_ago_today-post_types’ filter
• Change: Add date to email subject
• Change: Add optional $include_year argument to get_formatted_date_string(), allowing for full date with year
• Fix: Restore proper registration of activation/deactivation hooks. Fixes #4. Props akirk.
• Fix: Ensure timing of emails is consistent with site’s timezone rather than the server’s
• Change: Improve performance of get_posts()
  • Change: Cache post IDs and only query for IDs when more is needed
  • New: Add clear_transient_on_publish(), get_post_ids_cache_key(), and query_post_ids()
  • New: Hook ‘save_post’ to clear transient when backporting a post to the current day in any past year
• Change: Improve the sending of emails
  • Change: Group users together (via BCC:) and email them in batches rather than individually when sending to multiple users
  • New: Add get_bcc_batch_size() to get number of people to email per BCC: batch
  • New: Add filter ‘c2c_years_ago_today-batch_size’ to customize the number of people to email per BCC: batch
  • New: Add get_bcc_to_email_address() to get the ‘To:’ email address used for Bcc-batched emails
  • New: Add filter ‘c2c_years_ago_today-to_address’ to customize the ‘To:’ email address used for Bcc-batched emails
  • New: Extract email handling logic out from cron_email() into new send_email_of_type()
  • New: Extract email address grouping logic out from cron_email() into new get_users_to_email_grouped_by_content_type()
• Change: Output full month instead of 3-letter abbreviations
• Change: Revamp dashboard output, more semantically putting each year within section tags
• Change: Align get_first_published_year() query with get_posts()
• Change: Incorporate a hash of post types into the first published year cache key
• Fix: Properly clear the first published year cache entry on deactivation by using the correct cache key
• Change: Ensure list bullets are consistently visible in all dark mode schemes
• New: Add descriptive help text to profile setting for accessibility and clarity
• New: Enqueue JS on profile pages
• New: Enqueue separate admin CSS file rather than outputting into head
• Change: Also enqueue CSS on profile pages
• Change: Change caching to support multisite usage
• Hardening: Prevent translated and generated strings from containing unintended markup
• Hardening: Prevent PHP warnings from any potential malicious form submission field value
• Change: Update plugin description
• Change: Use consistent phrasing across UI and documentation
• Change: Rename add_user_email_footer() to get_email_footer() and remove arguments and just return the footer based on a format (‘text’ or ‘html’)
• Change: Add context to translation of dashboard widget title to differentiate it from plugin’s name
• Change: Allow year headings in plain text emails to be translated
• Change: Remove is_admin() guard from init(), which isn’t strictly necessary and impedes unit tests
• Change: Update uses of current_time() and mysql2date() to more modern wp_date()
• New: Add get_optin_label() to centralize the optin label since it is used in two places
• Change: Discontinue use of HEREDOC syntax
• Change: Discontinue unnecessary explicit loading of textdomain
• Change: Add missing translator comments for strings with one placeholder
• Change: Prevent unwarranted PHPCS complaints
• Fix: Fix translator string that referenced an extraneous placeholder
• Change: Note compatibility through WP 7.0+
• Change: Drop compatibilities with versions of WP older than 5.6
• Change: Note compatibility through PHP 8.5+
• Change: Update copyright date (2026)
• Change: Add new screenshots and update existing screenshots

1.6 (2024-08-09)

• Fix: Convert use of deprecated string interpolation syntax to prevent notice under PHP8.2. Props Simounet.
• Change: Note compatibility through WP 6.6+
• Change: Update copyright date (2024)
• New: Add .gitignore file
• Change: Remove development and testing-related files from release packaging
• Unit tests:
  • Hardening: Prevent direct web access to bootstrap.php
  • Allow tests to run against current versions of WordPress
  • New: Add composer.json for PHPUnit Polyfill dependency
  • Change: In bootstrap, store path to plugin file in a constant
  • Change: In bootstrap, add backcompat for PHPUnit pre-v6.0

1.5.1 (2023-06-11)

• Change: Note compatibility through WP 6.3+
• Change: Update copyright date (2023)
• New: Add link to DEVELOPER-DOCS.md in README.md

Full changelog is available in CHANGELOG.md.