On This Day (by Room 34)
by Room 34 Creative Services, LLC · Uncategorized
Also makes 9 other plugins · 13.5K+ installs across the portfolio →
Display your blog posts from this date in previous years as a sidebar widget.
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Health
B 83/100
Few reviews
Active installs
200+
≈240 estimated
Momentum
+26%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: Add “on this day” to your wp.org tags. You rank #5 for it without listing it, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed it's a slot worth spending.
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.0%
of downloads still active
At least 200 of 10.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,783 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 3 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 170 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8; the current branch is 7.1
5.0★ over 8 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.2★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
36
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 24d
13%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 24d
-0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| room | #3 | #7 | 0 |
| day | #5 | #13 | up 2 |
| on this day | #5 | #11 | 0 |
| todays date your tag | #14 | #17 | down 3 |
| this day in history | #7 | #14 | 0 |
| current day posts | #14 | #20 | down 2 |
| day date years | #15 | #15 | 0 |
| posts from current day | #15 | #21 | — |
| post by day | #22 | #20 | up 1 |
| post of the day | #24 | #19 | down 3 |
| archive your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| history your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| this date your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
24 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 10 listed. 14 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Add “on this day” to your wp.org tags. You rank #5 for it without listing it, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed it's a slot worth spending.
- One page off on “todays date”. #14 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,491 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 645 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
3
releases in the last 12 months
6mo ago
latest release · v3.7.0.1 · 18 May 2026
46
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 36% of the way through.
At the current install trend, crossing 300+ in roughly 153 days.
Install history since 28 Jun 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ ricky81011mo ago
This is a really solid plugin. It’s simple, with no bloat, but also pretty flexible. Does everything I need and for one refinement I asked for the author provided it within 48h.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ dimaan1.4y ago
The new update ensures that the post can also be displayed in its entirety, a great plugin!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ cueyelink2.0y ago
My personal blog is largely based on this plugin. The front page only shows posts that are up to date. I have tested a number of plugins, all were disappointing, but this one works fine.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ madinfinity2.6y ago
This is the best and only plugin to display Day in HistoryThanks to the developer!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ darro6.0y ago
Pretty much the same as doubledown00 I’ve been looking for a addin like this for ages Well done, easy to use.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ doubledown006.5y ago
I’m not real big on leaving reviews in general but I’m leaving one here. If adding more reviews helps bring attention to this plugin and makes it more popular, so be it! I have blog entries and stuff I imported from previous platforms going back to 1996. I have been looking for a way to highlight some of this old content based on date, similar to how Slashdot.org does it in their “This Day on Slashdot” widget. The only thing is I couldn’t find anything that would do it. There were plugins that would do “this day in history” and other criteria. But I couldn’t find a plugin that would do it based on content entered in WordPress. The plugin its self is *very* easy to use. Install, activate, and add it as a widget wherever you want it. Done. There are some settings you can tweak regarding how many entries to show, what categories, etc. I had the whole thing up and running in five minutes.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ dorfdimpaler6.8y ago
I’m an outdoor writer and one day I realized: “I’ve got 15 years of content here!” I wanted a way to showcase that. This plug-in was just what I needed. My posts are all seasonal and deer and turkey hunting really don’t change from year to year, so my readers have not only what I’ve recently written, but also years and years of stuff that I’ve written on the subject. Many thanks! This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Deleted link and reference to site, don't do that here
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Andrew Huey10.8y ago
This is just a nice little plugin to show posts on the current day in previous years. I’ve been using it for a while now, and it works great.
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
2 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Display your blog posts from this date in previous years as a sidebar widget."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 578 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "history", "todays date" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-25 100+ → 200+ up after 63 days in tier
- 2026-04-23 200+ → 100+ down after 811 days in tier
- 2024-02-02 100+ → 200+ up
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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eHive Objects Tag Cloud 20+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
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