Time limit for dispalying posts

Hi there,

That’s exactly what “Display only posts published within the selected Time Range” is for.

Hi Hector
As I say its probably my stupidity(!)
Here is a screenshot of the 2 settings
https://imgur.com/a/tSShExK

So “Time Range” is set to one day. My understanding is that this means that it will only display post hits for the last day. So if a post that is say 6 months old is visted in the last 24 hours, it will display in the list – which is great and what I want

But, if I click “Display only posts published within the selected Time Range”, surely I will only be able to see posts that were published in the last 24 hours?

Am I approaching this in the wrong way?

Aplolgies for such a stupid question!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by ktsiterip.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. Originally you said:

I have a data collection range of 1 day (…)

so I thought you were talking about the Data Logging feature. I see what you mean now.

Unfortunately, the plugin doesn’t offer such a feature. There might be a way to do it via filter hooks, though. I’ll play around with this idea and if it works I’ll tell you what you need to do.

Aplolgies for such a stupid question!

There’s no such thing as a stupid question, so don’t worry about it.

This seems to work:

/**
 * Adds a time constraint condition so WPP returns only posts that
 * are up to 6 months old.
 *
 * @param string $where Original WHERE clause
 * @param array $options Plugin settings
 * @return string The filtered WHERE clause
 */
function wpp_limit_post_age( $where, $options ){

    if ( ! is_admin() ) {
        $where .= " AND p.post_date > DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 6 MONTH) ";	
        return $where;
    }

    return $where;
}
add_filter( 'wpp_query_where', 'wpp_limit_post_age', 10, 2 );

Basically, we’re using an undocumented filter hook to modify the query WPP uses to retrieve posts from your database.

Since you want to display posts that are no more than a year old, you need to change INTERVAL 6 MONTH to INTERVAL 12 MONTH (or INTERVAL 1 YEAR).

Note that said filter hook has been left undocumented for a very good reason: I may make changes to the original query (as I just did) which in turn might break your customization, breaking the query and thus the widget completely in the process. This mod, however, should be safe. I honestly don’t think you need to worry about it.

Also, for this mod to work you’ll want to keep the “Display only posts published within the selected Time Range” option unchecked.

And, in case you’re wondering, you need to add this code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file.

Hi Hector!
Wow!
Thanks for that – Have implemented it in functions.php – it dosent immediatley seem to have an effect – I’ve flushed both site cache and Popular Posts cache, but I’m still seeing older posts then 6 months….

Just checked again and it works for me, so:

• Did you make sure that the “Display only posts published within the selected Time Range” option is unchecked?
• Are you using WPP’s Data Caching?
• Are you using the latest version of the plugin?

Hi Hector
The awnsers are yes, yes and yes to your questions….and another yes – because it has started working now – doubtless it was some caching issue!

So thank you so much for your help – you exemplify everything that is great about the wordpress community with your always helpful approach and replies.
Thank you!

Glad I could help, and thank you for the kind words!