Need part of code to only display last 7 days of posts

  • WPChina

    (@wordpresschina)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    I am about 98% completed on getting code for my functions.php in WordPress that will generate a list of all the posts on my blog from the last 7 days. However the part where I create code to generate “the last 7 days” of posts is creating problems.

    Here is the code so far, but it lacks all the nonsense I had before that didn’t work to grab only the last 7 days of posts. Can anyone see where I should add the information about “the last 7 days” and how that should be placed?

    function show_post_by_category_and_by_last_week($args = '') {
	global $post;
	$categories = get_categories($args);
	echo "<ul>";
	$i = 0;
	foreach ($categories as $category) : $i++;
	?>
	<li>
	      <h2><a href="<?php echo get_category_link($category->term_id);?>"><?php echo $category->name; ?></a></h2>
	      <ul>
	        <?php
	$posts = get_posts('category='. $category->term_id);
	foreach($posts as $post) :
	?>
		<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
	<?php endforeach; ?>
	    </ul>
	     <div class="read-more"><a href="<?php echo get_category_link($category->term_id);?>">MORE &raquo;&raquo;</a></div>
	</li>
<?php
	if ($i % 3 == 0) {
		echo "</ul><ul>";
	}
	endforeach;
	echo "</ul>";
}
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  • Could put something like this in your foreach loop:

    Test for posts that are so may days old date (in this case 46 days)

    <?php
$mylimit=46 * 86400; //days * seconds per day
$post_age = date('U') - get_post_time('U');
if ($post_age < $mylimit) {
echo 'this post is within my date limit ';
}
?>

    Thread Starter WPChina

    (@wordpresschina)

    Great, thanks. I scrapped my code and have been playing around with your code for a few days. Your code seems better but it also has its limitations. Below is what I’m working with as code within a page, but it still is having these errors:

    1) It is only outputting the 5 most recent articles, and not the recent articles over the last 7 days as I wish to do.

    2) Though I don’t have it in the code represented below, I’ve also been trying to figure out how to group the posts by category. I scrapped all my previous code because it wouldn’t work. Arrrgggh…

    3) My goal is to have a Page in my blog that outputs posts from the last 7 days, and they are grouped by categories.

    <?php
/*
Template Name: OUTPUT PAGE FOR 7 DAYS
*/
?>
            <?php
 $posts = get_posts('');
 foreach($posts as $post) :
$mylimit=7 * 86400; //days * seconds per day
$post_age = date('U') - get_post_time('U');
if ($post_age < $mylimit) {
echo 'this post is within my date limit ';
}

 ?>
            &nbsp; <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
              <?php the_title(); ?><br />
              </a>
            <?php endforeach; ?>
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