Posted 3 years ago #
I am posting some content which is old and which I don't know the exact date of release.
Thus for every post dated older than 2003 I would like my Wordpress to only display the Year, and not "August 15, 1994 at 11:54 am".
This is the code that I have in the index.php of the theme that I am using:
<p class="postmeta">
<?php the_time('F j, Y') ?> <?php _e('at'); ?> <?php the_time() ?>
How do I do a "if the_time is older than specificdate then only display Y".
Thanks for your help!
Posted 3 years ago #
The only solution I could think of would be to have a category for such posts and then use a specific category-#.php (# = the id of the specific cat) file to show them where you adjust <?php the_time('F j, Y') ?> <?php _e('at'); ?> by taking out the "F j," part to leave only the year.
This describes how to make a category template.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
This is only half the battle though. Then you'll need this great plugin so you can define a "single-cat-#.php file" for when your view a single post in the category. Once again, you'll need to make the same edits as above.
http://guff.szub.net/2005/07/21/post-templates-by-category/
This may be a long way around, but it will get you there.
Try this:
<p class="postmeta">
<?php if(get_the_time('Y') < 2003)
{
the_time('Y');
}
else
{
the_time('F j, Y at g:i a');
}
?>
You may need to put more backslashes around the "\a\t"; the PHP manual isn't too clear on that. Some experimentation should get it working quickly.
Here are the resources I used, in case they help you:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_the_time
The function you want to know about is get_post_time(). It takes parameters, but if you call it by itself, with no parameters, it gives you back the time the post was made in seconds since the epoch, which is a rather useful format.
Here's some code that will work for you:
<p class="postmeta">
<?php
$now = time();
$compare_time = mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2003);
$post_time = get_post_time('U');
if ($post_time < $compare_time) {
the_time('Y');
}
else {
the_time('F j, Y'); _e('at'); the_time();
}
?>
Edit: tsguitar's method is a bit more specific to your problem than mine is, but if you want a more generic solution, this will still help you.
Otto, would our two examples do the same thing?
tsguitar: Yes, basically. The mktime function takes arguments of hour, minute, second, month, day, year and produces a time since the epoch value you can compare against. Makes it a bit easier for more complex date math.
Posted 3 years ago #
Thanks a lot! Both tsiguitar's and Otto42's codes work great, I just added the backslash to tsiguitar's as he said I might have to:
the_time('F j, Y \a\t g:i a');
Posted 3 years ago #
Otto42 & tsguitar - you guys are worthy of a Gold Star!
I had some old articles sitting in my files going to waste because I couldn't work out how to display the copyright material in year only (2004) using the standard time call that is also used for recent material.
Now I can display old articles with new material side by side with complete ease.
Just brilliant!
Excellent. I'm really glad this worked out so well. Can you mark this "Resolved," then?
Posted 3 years ago #
Can I do that?
Am I suppose to do that?
Or is it the OP's call?
It's the OP's call. This all worked for you and it all worked for Charbax, so I hope this gets marked "Resolved" so everyone else knows it's taken care of.
Posted 3 years ago #
OP's generally, but if neither of you do it by tomorrow, I or one of the other mods will. Looks like you both got what was needed....
Posted 3 years ago #
I'm a little lost...
I'm looking at my screen and I can't see any "click" section that will allow me to mark this thread as resolved.
Am I looking in the right place? I'd like to mark this as resolved, if Charbax doesn't - responsible adult that I am...
Posted 3 years ago #
Top of screen, just above the bolded "add this topic to your favorites" link....
Posted 3 years ago #
Thanks vkaryl.
This is what I have...
Topic started 1 day ago - text
14 posts so far - text
Latest reply (link) from vkaryl - text
This topic is not resolved - text, no link
Add this topic to your favorites (?) (link)
Is this what you mean?
Posted 3 years ago #
Hoo. Your "This topic is not resolved - text, no link" isn't a dropdown box with a "Change" button to the right?
That's weird. Do you have some stringent setting for FF for instance, using NoScript or something?
Posted 3 years ago #
The "This Topic..." is simple text, no drop down box with a change button attached.
I don't know if I do or don't have special settings. I'm using multiple browsers at once (FF & IE6) and I have TREND MICRO PC-cillin Internet Security 2006.
I haven't encountered anything like this before, but I have to ask: Will that affect things?
KatGirl: You're not the original poster of this thread, so you wouldn't be able to mark it as resolved.
Posted 3 years ago #
Oh. Oops. Forgot about that by this time. Thanks Otto....
Posted 3 years ago #
Whew! I'm glad to hear it I was wondering if my computer was on the blink...
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