Date first, before title?

Hi @bueltge,

Any help to achieve it?

Thanks!

The plugin haven’t any predefined settings, you should create it via the parameters there are documented inside the readme. Maybe use also the helping hands of CSS to to get your choice of design result.

Hi @bueltge,

Thanks for your answer!

The plugin haven’t any predefined settings

That’s what I like with your plugin. We’re free to setup the design as we want.

However, I can find any solution for the item order :-/

you should create it via the parameters there are documented inside the readme

That’s what I did.

Here is my code…
[RSSImport display="10" feedurl="https://www.aeromorning.com/rss/" date="true" date_format="Y-m-d" truncatetitlechar="100" truncatetitlestring="..." target="blank" displaydescriptions="false" use_simplepie="true"]

The result is the following…

Saft équipera l’avion régional MA700 du chinois AVIC 2019-06-20
Bpifrance entre au capital de Sabena technics 2019-06-20
International Airlines Group annonce son intention… MAX 2019-06-18
Global Space, le nouveau rendez-vous de référence… 2019-06-18
Siemens lance sa solution IPP&E pour le secteur… 2019-06-17

But how do I place the date first?
I would like…

2019-06-20 – Saft équipera l’avion régional MA700 du chinois AVIC
2019-06-20 – Bpifrance entre au capital de Sabena technics
2019-06-18 – International Airlines Group annonce son intention…
2019-06-18 – Global Space, le nouveau rendez-vous de référence…
2019-06-17 – Siemens lance sa solution IPP&E pour le secteur…

Any direction? (I’m not an expert of CSS) ??

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by ftpwp.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by ftpwp.

Hi @bueltge,

Any direction to help me?
Thanks!

I’m not sure, but I mean it is not possible with the plugin. Maybe you should change this order via CSS, so that the visual result is like your goal.

Ok, but can you give me a hint about how you can do it via CSS?
You must have something in mind.
I really don’t know how CSS can help split a string in smaller sub strings and re-order them ??

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by ftpwp.

Hi @bueltge,

I really don’t know why this topic is tagged “Resolved” as obviously, so far it was not.
Anyway…

Maybe you should change this order via CSS, so that the visual result is like your goal.

Are you sure this is even possible?
Once again, I really don’t know how CSS can help split a string in smaller sub strings and re-order them. I would have appreciated a bit more support if you think it’s possible. I’ve asked my question 6 months ago now ??

So I had no other option than to look into the code.
Fortunately this plug-in is quite simple. Only 1 file. And I straight away found an easy solution :

Search for those lines…

$echo .= '<a' . $target . $rel . ' href="' . $href . '" title="' . $atitle . '">' . $title . '</a>';

if ( isset( $pubDate ) && $date && '' !== $pubDate ) {
	$echo .= $before_date . $pubDate . $after_date;
}

And replace them by those ones (to just move the date before the title)…

if ( isset( $pubDate ) && $date && '' !== $pubDate ) {
	$echo .= $before_date . $pubDate . $after_date;
}

$echo .= '<a' . $target . $rel . ' href="' . $href . '" title="' . $atitle . '">' . $title . '</a>';

Then use the before_date & after_date parameters to adjust the design.

That’s it. Done!
It was really easy.

Now, it’s a modification I have to do in the code of the plug-in. So it’s a pity as if a new update comes, it will be removed.

So why not adding in the core of the plugin the possibility to order the 4 items that can be displayed?
– Title
– Date
– Creator
– Description

Being able to get such combination or few others makes sense…

2019-06-20 – Saft équipera l’avion régional MA700 du chinois AVIC
2019-06-20 – Bpifrance entre au capital de Sabena technics
2019-06-18 – International Airlines Group annonce son intention…
2019-06-18 – Global Space, le nouveau rendez-vous de référence…
2019-06-17 – Siemens lance sa solution IPP&E pour le secteur…

It could just be one additional parameter, for example called “order”, with settings like this:
– order="date,title,creator,description"
– order="title,date,description,creator"
– or even this order="date,description" with only 2 items to display

Then in the code you just need to:
– explode the value of “order” in an array…
$order_array = explode(",", $order);
– and for each value, run the appropriate code to build you HTML code in the right order…

foreach ($order_array as $items) {
    switch ($items) {
        case "title":
            // Code to add the title
            $echo .= '<a' . $target . $rel . ' href="' . $href . '" title="' . $atitle . '">' . $title . '</a>';
            break;
        case "date":
            // Code to add the date
            if ( isset( $pubDate ) && $date && '' !== $pubDate ) {
		$echo .= $before_date . $pubDate . $after_date;
	    }
            break;
        case "creator":
            // Code to add the creator
            if ( isset( $creator ) && $creator && '' !== $creator ) {
		$echo .= $before_creator . $creator . $after_creator;
	    }
            break;
        case "description":
            // Code to add the description
	    if ( isset( $desc ) && $displaydescriptions && '' !== $desc ) {
		...
	    }
            break;
    }
}

That’s it. Done!
As simple as that.

What do you think about this possible enhancement?
Thanks.

Thanks for your enhancement solution. I don’t have any interesting to maintain the plugin or enhance it. The solution is old, should rewrite in more solid code. However maybe you will contribute the code so I would open this for you? Write to me about wp-Slack or mail if you have an interest.

Hi,

Thanks but I’m currently not interested in developing, maintaining and supporting a WP plugin. I was just trying to help. Sorry.

It’s sad though cause this plugin is simple but allows to do whatever we want without being forced to use not suitable designs imposed by most other plugins.

I’ll keep using it as long as it’s still compliant with the last WP version.

Thanks.

@ftpwp Okay, I have implemented this small change; maybe it helps also other users.

Thanks @bueltge !
I’m sure it will.

And I confirm, it works like a charm.