Time Machine
Time Machine widget list articles published in past, relative to current date for specified offset of time, including all years of blogging (Ok, at le …
5(2 reviews)
·90 active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Time Machine is a WordPress past plugin with 90 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Talkshoe Archives.
5/52 reviews
90active installs
7.7K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Time Machine is a simple plugin that grab N published articles from database (posts and/or pages) published on current day and/or offset of time in past years, and list them in widget.
User can set widget title, number of displayed articles and message printed when there is no public articles on current day or offset of time in past.
Features
- list only published articles (ignore Draft’s)
- it’s safe and will not list password protected articles until you strictly enable this option in widget settings
- option to exclude pages
- option to exclude articles published in current year
- option to hide widget if there is no articles in past (don’t even displays
no articlesmessage) - configurable widget title, number of displayed articles, message when there is no articles, and optiona…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.9+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
0.4.1 (2014-12-20)
- Improve: multi instance widget
- Improve: rewritten to OOP and optimized code
- Add: rel=”nofollow” to post links, to prevent reindexing old posts and and affect page rank
- Add: uninstall procedure to remove widget settings
- Test on WordPress 4.1
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