Add On This Day section to Activity widget

[sabernhardt]

Lists posts published on the same day (or within date range) in previous years, within the Activity widget.

Based on WordPress#11630 by @alshakero

Trac 65116

Use of AI Tools

nothing in addition to the tool used in PR 11630

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[sabernhardt]

The time condition avoids running the On This Day query if the Recent posts list might already include a post from the same day in a previous year. If the query uses a date range, the number of days in seconds would increase.

[sabernhardt]

These variable names with otd would need editing, but I was more concerned with making them unique for now.

[sabernhardt]

Like PR 11630, this limits the posts to any created by (or assigned to) the current user instead of all posts on the site. The argument could be removed, either for the default query or for individual sites with the wp_dashboard_on_this_day_query_args filter.

[sabernhardt]

I copied this from lines 1040 to 1052, and changed the date and time to only the date.

As a result, the link is for editing the post if the user has edit access. If the link is for viewing regardless of access, it would have no need for the ARIA label.

Suggested change

	);
	$draft_or_post_title = _draft_or_post_title();
	printf(
	'<li><span>%1$s</span> <a href="%2$s">%3$s</a></li>',
	$date,
	get_permalink(),
	$draft_or_post_title
	);

But then the Recent posts could indicate visually that links in the recent and future lists are for editing, to make the difference clearer.

			$draft_or_post_title = _draft_or_post_title();
			if ( current_user_can( 'edit_post', get_the_ID() ) ) {
				printf(
					'<li><span>%1$s</span> <a href="%2$s" aria-label="%3$s">%4$s</a></li>',
					/* translators: 1: Relative date, 2: Time. */
					sprintf( _x( '%1$s, %2$s', 'dashboard' ), $date, get_the_time() ),
					get_edit_post_link(),
					/* translators: %s: Post title. */
					esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Edit &#8220;%s&#8221;' ), $draft_or_post_title ) ),
					'<span class="dashicons dashicons-edit" aria-hidden="true"></span>' . $draft_or_post_title
				);
			} else {
				printf(
					'<li><span>%1$s</span> <a href="%2$s">%3$s</a></li>',
					/* translators: 1: Relative date, 2: Time. */
					sprintf( _x( '%1$s, %2$s', 'dashboard' ), $date, get_the_time() ),
					get_permalink(),
					$draft_or_post_title
				);
			}