Recent chat around micro.blog about enabling an “on this day” plugin prompted me to put together the shortcode below. Unlike sophisticated hugo configurations, mine is just updated by a cron job, so I can render it statically, without any javascript, and it’s always current to the day, even if I haven’t posted that day.

I call this shortcode from my /now page:

Posts on this day ({{ now.Format "Jan 2" }}):
<ul>
{{ range (where .Site.RegularPages "Section" "in" (slice "post" "note")) }}
  {{ if eq .Date.YearDay now.YearDay}}
  <li><a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Date.Format "2006-01-02"}} / {{ .Title }}</a>
  {{end}}
{{ else }}
    <li>... no entries ... 
{{ end }}
</ul>