by Aleksandar Urošević 5 (2 reviews)

Time Machine

Name: Time Machine
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)
Author: Aleksandar Urošević

Time Machine widget and block display a list of articles published in on this day in past, including offset in days, weeks and months.

Time Machine ranks #21,986 among WordPress.org plugins with 40+ active installations, is #2,831 of 8,575 in the Customization category, a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews, and was last updated Sep 20, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v26.9.0 Current Version v26.9.0

Updated 2 days ago Last Update on 20 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 14 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#2,831 of 8,575 in Customization Top 50% by installs Actively maintained

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40+

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Plugin Details

Version: 26.9.0
Last Updated: Sep 20, 2026
Requires WP: 5.3+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Aleksandar Urošević

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Time Machine

I like effect that produce Time Machine - traveling trough time. This plugin does exactly that, but with fixed month and day constant.

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Yes. Time Machine's list is refetched from a small REST endpoint right after the page finishes loading, so the visible content stays current even when the whole page has been cached for longer than a day. The cached markup already on the page stays visible until (and unless) that request succeeds, so nothing is ever blank while it refreshes, and the page cache itself is never touched or purged. If you prefer to disable this and rely only on the page cache's own expiry, add define( 'TIME_MACHINE_DISABLE_REFRESH', true ); to wp-config.php.

Add this to wp-config.php: define( 'TIME_MACHINE_DISABLE_REFRESH', true ); No data-time-machine-* attributes are printed after that, the refresh script is never enqueued, and no REST request is ever made. Lists render once, on the server. On a page held in a full page cache for longer than a day, the list can then be a day or more behind.

A security plugin or snippet on your site closes the whole REST API to signed out visitors, through the rest_authentication_errors filter. That filter runs before any route can state that it is public, so Time Machine cannot exempt its own route from it, however read only that route is. Nothing is broken for your visitors. The list is rendered on the server and stays on screen; only the refresh described above is skipped, and the failed request is logged in the console. Time Machine checks this once a day and tells you in Tools -> Site Health, which spells out the two options below. Option 1: switch the refresh off. Add this to wp-config.php: define( 'TIME_MACHINE_DISABLE_REFRESH', true ); No request is made after that, so the console stays clean. Lists render once, on the server, exactly as they did before this feature existed. On a page held in a full page cache for longer than a day, the list can then be a day or more behind. Option 2: let this one route through. It is read only and returns the same published titles, excerpts and links the page already shows to the same visitor, so letting it through gives nothing away. Add this to a must-use plugin or to your theme's functions.php: add_filter( 'rest_authentication_errors', function ( $result ) { if ( ! is_wp_error( $result ) ) { return $result; } $route = isset( $GLOBALS['wp']->query_vars['rest_route'] ) ? ltrim( $GLOBALS['wp']->query_vars['rest_route'], '/' ) : ''; if ( 0 === strpos( $route, 'time-machine/v1/' ) ) { return null; } return $result; }, 99 ); It runs after the restriction and before the core cookie check, and clears the error for the time-machine/v1 namespace only. Every other route keeps the restriction exactly as it is.