Title: Historian
Author: Ryan Neudorf
Published: <strong>September 10, 2013</strong>
Last modified: September 24, 2023

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Historian

 By [Ryan Neudorf](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ohryan/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/retroposts.2.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/retroposts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/retroposts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/retroposts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/retroposts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/retroposts/)

## Description

Historian Block displays a list of posts from this week in your blog’s history, 
organized by year.
 It’s easy to forget about the great blog posts you’ve written
in the past.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The dashboard widget.

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   Historian Block Historian surfaces old blog posts on your dashboard and as 
   a sidebar widget.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin.
 2. Activate it.
 3. Check your dashboard.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Historian” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ryan Neudorf ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ohryan/)

[Translate “Historian” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/retroposts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/retroposts/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/retroposts/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/retroposts/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/retroposts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.0.1

 * Added a block to replace the old widget.

#### 1.0

 * ADDED SIDEBAR WIDGET!
 * Rewrote WP_Query calls, should be a little quicker
 * Renamed to ‘Historian’

#### 0.1.2

 * Fixed a date bug.(Turns out the ISO-8601 dates returned by PHP’s date() do not
   work like I thought they did.)

#### 0.1.1

 * Improved handling of multiple posts in a single day.
 * Added a screenshot.

#### 0.1

 * Initial version. Nothing to change.

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0**
 *  Last updated **3 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.3.8**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/retroposts/)
 * Tags
 * [block](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/block/)[dashboard widget](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard-widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/retroposts/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ryan Neudorf ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ohryan/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/retroposts/)