`get_posts` by months?

Just to let you know,

I am trying to retrieve the posts date by using get_query_var, then get_posts by month.
But when I echo wp_reset_postdata();, all I get is a 0.
Anyone knows why the hell?

Sorry…
When I wanted to write : “when I echo $month=get_query_var('monthnum'); ”

It would help to see the full code you are using to do the query.

Hi,
Thank you the quick answer!
Here is my code :

<?php $month=get_query_var('monthnum');
                    $args= array(
                        'monthnum' => $month
                    );
                    echo $month;
                    $my_posts = query_posts($args);
                    foreach ($my_posts as $posts) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>

                <li><a class="post-link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
                    <?php endforeach; wp_reset_postdata();?>             

            </div>
        <?php } ?>

Well, I’m sorry, I’m a bit confused, it is late here… ??
So, here is the full code for my menu :

if ( is_date() ){ ?>
            <div class="menu2 col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-xs-4">

            <?php
            $args = array(
                    'type'            => 'monthly',
                    'post_type'       => 'video',
                    'limit'           => '',
                    'format'          => 'html',
                    'before'          => '',
                    'after'           => '',
                    'show_post_count' => false,
                    'echo'            => 1,
                    'order'           => 'DESC'
                );
            wp_get_archives_cpt($args); ?>

            </div>

            <div class="menu3 col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-xs-4">

            <?php $month=get_query_var('monthnum');
                    $args= array(
                        'monthnum' => $month
                    );
                    $my_posts = query_posts($args);
                    foreach ($my_posts as $posts) : setup_postdata( $posts ); ?>

                <li><a class="post-link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
                    <?php endforeach; wp_reset_postdata();?>             

            </div>
        <?php } ?>

I think your only issue is that monthnum is not necessarily defined for any particular date archive query. is_date() returns true for any date query, whether monthnum is defined or not. For example the request example.com/2014/ will cause your code to execute but monthnum is undefined.

If you feel monthnum should be defined for the request you are using, please provide an example request URL. This is assuming your code will do what you want if monthnum were defined, of which I’m not convinced.

I’m not too clear what you are really trying to do here. I assume wp_get_archives_cpt() outputs a list of archive links for months where the video post type is published, correct? Then you say you want corresponding posts. Corresponding to what?

Also, where does this code occur? The surrounding context is important, though publishing everything is probably not necessary.

Hello,

I’m sorry I’ve taken time to thank you and be more precise in my explanations…

What I want to do is to display posts (video custom posts in this particular case) by two ways :
-Category
-date

When you arrive on the website, you have three menus : NEWS / VIDEOS / PRINT.
VIDEOS and PRINT will lead you to category menus, no problem.

NEWS will lead you to a custom menu, where posts of the other categories are displayed by month.
So, if you click on NEWS, you will get into archive.php, where you will have a list of months. Ok for this. Once you click on a month, a list of posts will be displayed. This is ok too.

Problem : when I click on a post listed by month, I get the post in its category. I mean, for example, you click on video2 : that brings you to VIDEOS/CATEGORY/VIDEO2, whereas I want it to be displayed in NEWS/DECEMBER 2014/VIDEO2.

Is it possible to do that?

Don’t worry about response time on your part – it’s your project not getting fixed ??

Thanks for the explanation. If I understand your “problem” declaration correctly, your menu script is outputting the wrong permalink for the listed posts. Is that right, or are you saying the permalinks are correct but WP redirects such that after clicking the correct link, the user is taken to the post page with a different URL displayed that you do not want?

If it is the former condition, the problem would be where you are using the_permalink() for the href attribute in generating the anchor links. You should instead use the current monthnum and post slug combined with other data from the post object to build the appropriate URL. This example has several errors in variable names, it is just to illustrate the concept, you can’t plug this example into your code directly:

$href = get_site_url("/news/{$posts->year}/{$month}/{$posts->name}");
echo "<a href='$href'>$title</a>";

$href in this case would look something like https://example.com/news/2014/12/video-title which doesn’t quite match your desired format, but it does sort of follow one of the standard permalink formats. This is more likely to return the correct post than the format you suggested unless you’ve taken measures to define a custom permalink. Even just the ‘news’ term in my example could confuse WP unless it’s been defined as a permalink tag.

I suspect you have more work to do, but I hope this gets you one step closer to your desired user experience.

Hehe, I’m sorry I have to tell you your second hypothesis was the good one…
Let me be more precise.
The same posts have to be called by two different ways : as category items or as dated items.
Why is that? Because I have built a three-level-menu which is always visible.
If you go to NEWS / OCTOBER 2014, you will have three columns, the last one displaying a list of posts which you will also be able to find in their own categories in VIDEOS / CATEGORIES /POSTS or PRINT / CATEGORIES / POSTS.
So, when I call the_permalink(); in my NEWS / MONTH / list of posts, I have my list with good permalinks.
The problem is that the_permalink(); brings the user to the corresponding category, whereas I would like to stay in NEWS / OCTOBER / POST.

As a good code example is always better than tons of words, let me present you the content of my date.php :

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div class="navigation col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-xs-12">

                <div class="menu1 col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-xs-4">

                    <?php
                         $args = array(
                            'theme_location' => 'header-menu'
                        );
                        wp_nav_menu($args);
                    ?>
                </div>

                <div class="menu2 col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-xs-4">

                <?php
                $args = array(
                        'type'            => 'monthly',
                        'post_type'       => 'video',
                        'limit'           => '',
                        'format'          => 'html',
                        'before'          => '',
                        'after'           => '',
                        'show_post_count' => false,
                        'echo'            => 1,
                        'order'           => 'DESC'
                    );
                wp_get_archives_cpt($args); ?>

                </div>

                <div class="menu3 col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-xs-4">

                <?php 

                /* var_dump($GLOBALS['wp_query']); */

                $month = get_the_time('m');

                        $args = array(
                            'post_type'  => array('video'),
                            'order'      => 'ASC',
                            'date_query' => array(
                                array(
                                    'month' => $month
                                ),
                            )
                        );

                        $the_query = new WP_Query($args);
                        if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) :
                        echo '<ul>';
                            while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
                                    <li><a class="post-link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
                                <?php
                            endwhile;
                        echo '</ul>';
                        endif; ?>             

                </div>          

 </div>

Just to let you know.

As I am trying different approches, I am also trying to display the videos with Ajax (which won’t give me the full URL, but will allow me to display the video without getting out of the NEWS section).

I am calling the videos (posts) this way :

<?php 

if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) == 'xmlhttprequest') { ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

                <?php $next_vid = get_permalink(get_adjacent_post( true, '', true )); ?>

                <?php get_the_date(); ?>

	<video id="my-video-js" class="video-js vjs-default-skin vjs-big-play-centered" controls preload="auto" autoplay
		data-setup='{}' width="100%" height="auto">
			<source src="<?php echo get_field('source_mp4')['url']; ?>" type="video/mp4">
			<source src="<?php echo get_field('video_webm')['url']; ?>" type="video/webm">
	</video>

	<?php endwhile;?>
	<?php die();
}

But it doesn’t work… the video-containerdiv loads, the my-video-js also. But it doesn’t load the video. I can’t get it to load the link to the videos…

Ok, now it works…
I just used an underscore in place of a dash in get_field('video-webm') etc.
After hours of searching a solution, it’s hard to focus on details…

But if anyone has an idea about how to display posts by two ways (without using Ajax) I am still very interested…

I can’t tell you how much time I’ve wasted on dash/underscore confusion, so writing a few paragraphs answering the wrong question is nothing ??

WP seems to insist on rewriting address bar URLs under all conditions. If there’s a way to stop it, I’ve not found it. A few times I’ve resorted to using .htaccess rewrites. Relative URLs are not rewritten that way. I don’t know if .htaccess will work for you, but it’s about all I can offer.

I need to present an example without code because I suck at .htaccess syntax. I would hate for something I gave you to bork your site. The RewriteCond will identify requests that contain, say, “/NEWS/”. The corresponding RewriteRule would extract the post slug from the original request and rewrite it in the form /index.php?name=post-slug-here

That’s enough to get the right post, but the original request remains in the address bar.

That’s a smart proposal !
Let’s try this and I’ll tell you.
Thanks a lot !