Allow frontend users to change their post date upon saving

Hello, glad you’re liking it ??

Jobs in the RSS feed are queried, and the query is ran through this filter: job_feed_args. You could use that to order them by modified date rather than post date. e.g.

add_filter( 'job_feed_args', 'custom_job_feed_args' );

function custom_job_feed_args( $args ) {
 $args['orderby'] = 'modified';
 return $args;
}

Thank you for the reply!

Where abouts would I copy and paste that code to Mike?

Would that also mean that jobs showing up on the [jobs] shortcode would also be ordered by modified date?

Hey there,

Try putting Mike’s suggestion in your theme’s functions.php template file.

This would just affect the RSS feed specifically.

Kind Regards,
Scott

I must be doing something wrong :/

Is there a step by step guide on where to edit and how?

Maybe these resources will help;

https://www.wpbeginner.com/glossary/functions-php/
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/25-extremely-useful-tricks-for-the-wordpress-functions-file/

functions.php is just a file in which you can add custom code via your theme. Thats all you are editing here.

Also; be warned RSS feeds are heavily cached so ensure you clean all browser cache after making changes.

I have added the code using the functionality plugin.

I tried adding directly to my theme’s functions.php but it caused the site to load blank pages.

Would this then mean that this feed link is changed to show in order of last editied: https://website.co.uk/feed/?post_type=job_listing

Does this also affect the order jobs are shown with the shortcode?

The code affects the feed only – not the shortcodes.

So I add to functions.php

add_filter( 'job_feed_args', 'custom_job_feed_args' );

function custom_job_feed_args( $args ) {
 $args['orderby'] = 'modified';
 return $args;
}

And then use:

https://website.co.uk/feed/?post_type=job_feed_args

instead of

https://website.co.uk/feed/?post_type=job_listing

for the RSS feed link?

EDIT: https://website.co.uk/feed/?post_type=job_feed_args shows up all content rather than the jobs.

Those links you provided don’t mention how to do this. I couldn’t find anything relating to job_feed_args

Adding that code to my theme’s functions.php causes the site to only load blank. I’m using BeTheme if that makes any difference?

?? I feel like such a noob!

You must use https://website.co.uk/feed/?post_type=job_listing – thats the feed URL.

The snippet should affect the query used in https://website.co.uk/feed/?post_type=job_listing