my custom plugin – updates post dates
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HI peeps,
I have a client that has contracted me to make a plugin that essentially auto update the post dates weekly.I decided to use modified_date to see if I can get that changed first. It checks daily and compares post dates and if it is over a week old it should update the date to this monday’s date.
I got pretty far with it but I am finding it hard to test.
add_action('my_daily_event', 'update_jobdate'); function check_updates() { if ( !wp_next_scheduled( 'update_jobdate' ) ) { wp_schedule_event( time(), 'daily', 'update_jobdate'); } } add_action('wp', 'check_updates'); // do something everyday function update_jobdates(){ global $wpdb; //this monday $this_monday = strtotime('Monday this week'); $newdate = $this_monday; $newgmt_time = get_gmt_from_date($newdate); $today = current_time('timestamp'); // Get all jobs $jobs_list = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, post_date, post_modified, post_modified_gmt FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE cat = 'job_listing' AND post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post'", ARRAY_A); if ( $job_list ) { foreach ($job_list as $job_dates) { // Get current date $job_date = get_post_date( 'U' ); // Get the days difference $difference = human_time_diff($job_date, $today); if ($difference >= "6 days") { // Update posts $my_post = array(); $my_post['ID'] = '%s'; $my_post['post_modified_gmt'] = '$newgmt_time'; $my_post['post_modified'] = '$newdate'; // Update the post into the database wp_update_post( $my_post ); } else { //do nothing return false; } } } } add_action( 'wp' , 'update_jobdates' ); ?>
Anything obvious?
And how do I test?Thanks in advance guys.
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