date_above template, why not the_date ?

right now, the plugin doesn’t have an option to group the output by date..so I’m not sure why you say it’s not working.

sorry, my bad. I didn’t mean it like that. Let me try to rephrase my question: wordpress has the the_date code which you can use to sort the posts by date. Do you know why this doesn’t work when I try to use this code in the template?

The reason why I’m asking is because I had used the option before to insert the rss posts as posts in my site (I have a specific way of styling the posts which is then easy to do). I’d prefer to use the shortcode and make a template for it since then I can seperate my posts from the regular (non rss feed) posts I have on my site. I’m now playing around with the template to adjust it to my needs and noticed that the the_date function is not working. Any clue why?

the date function will work if you leave the code as it was when you found it (with the argument of the date function as it was when you found it).

Somehow I’m not getting working. Below I posted my code (includes a completely different styling as you’ll see), including the the_date that used to work. Maybe you can see what I’m doing wrong? I understand that this is out of scope of your (great) plugin, but I’d be very thankfull if you’d know a solution.

<?php
$strDate=rssmi_get_default_date_format();

// don’t mess with this php code
foreach($myarray as $items) {

$useMediaImage=$items[“useMediaImage”];

if ($pag!==1){
$total = $total +1;
if ($maxperPage>0 && $total>=$maxperPage) break;
}

$idnum=$idnum +1;
// END don’t mess with this php code

$openWindow=rssmi_lightbox_filter($items[“mylink”],$targetWindow); //Lightbox filter

// show date (group similar posts)
$readable .= the_date(‘l j F’, ‘<p style=”text-align:right;margin-bottom:1px!important;margin-top:5px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-width:1px;padding-bottom:1px;”>’, ”, false);

// make post container and show post title
$readable .= ‘ <div id=”post-‘ .$idnum.'” style=”margin-bottom:0px!important”>
<p style=”margin:0px”>’ .date_i18n($strDate,$items[“mystrdate”]). ‘ | ‘ .$items[“mytitle”]. ‘</p>’;

// make excerpt container and hide if “show more” option is checked
if (!empty($items[“mydesc”]) && $showDesc==1){

if ($showmore==1 && $showDesc==1){
$readable .= ‘ <div id=”‘.$idnum.'” class=”post-content” style=”display:none;border-bottom:1px solid #e7e6e6;border-top:1px solid #e7e6e6;padding:2px;”>’;

}else{
$readable .= ‘ <div id=”‘.$idnum.'” class=”post-content” style=”border-bottom:1px solid #e7e6e6;border-top:1px solid #e7e6e6;padding:2px;”>’;
}

// excerpt code
$readable .= showexcerpt($items[“mydesc”],$descNum,$openWindow,$stripAll,$items[“mylink”],$adjustImageSize,$float,$noFollow,$items[“myimage”],$items[“mycatid”],$stripSome,$useMediaImage);
$readable .= ‘<p style=”text-align:right;font-size:12px;”>’.$attribution.’ ‘.$items[“myGroup”].’</p>’;

// close excerpt container
$readable .= ‘</div>’;

}

// close post container
$readable .= ‘</div>’;

} // don’t mess with this php code

$readable .= ‘</div>’;

?>

Where it says: // show date (group similar posts), is where the the problem occors. I only get to see the date of the last post (it is not groupign and re-showing).

Thanks in advance,
Hiltjo

first of all, the_date isn’t defined, so you won’t get anything. The date is specified by doing this:

date_i18n($strDate,$items["mystrdate"])

I’m not sure I’m getting this. How do you mean the_date is not defined? the_date is a function that displays or returns the date of a post, or a set of posts if published on the same day. When there are multiple posts on a page published under the same day, the_date() only displays the date for the first post (that is, the first instance of the_date()). It doesn’t need to be defined, does it?

I tried adding:

date_i18n($strDate,$items[“mystrdate”])

before the_date function, but that didn’t work.