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1. amory
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   I'm developing a widget for WP-Dash that will display all upcoming concerts (the scheduled entries div from the existing dashboard) and need help configuring the timestamp.

   Here is the main output code:
   $output .= "<li><a href='post.php?action=edit&amp;post=$post->ID' title='edit this post'>$post->post_title</a> on $post->post_date </li>";
   For now I have the $post->post_date because it has been the only thing to actually work. I would like to be able to configure it to display as a php date format such as ('m/d/Y')

2. Joshua Sigar
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   If you do ...
   setup_postdata( $post )
   ..beforehand, you could, then do...
   the_date( 'm/d/Y' )

3. Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)
   Moderator
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   Would date('m/d/y', $post->post_date); not work?

   And a lot easier solution to this is to just make a copy of the "Recent Posts" widget (dashboard-recent-posts.php) and edit the post query to something like:

   SELECT ID, post_title, post_author FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_date_gmt > '$today' ORDER BY post_date ASC LIMIT 10

   That'll list out up to the 10 soonest posts from the future with the soonest first.

   Then just change the function names and the make_widget_available part at the bottom and you're good to go.

4. amory
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   Thanks for the replies, I'll try in the morning. @viper - i'm looking to display the date as well as sort by it so the second part is already taken care of.

   Thanks

5. Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)
   Moderator
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   That is ordered by date and adding the date would be easy, but whatever. :)

6. amory
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   Sorry - long night last night... I meant that the upcoming posts are already sorted, and just need timestamps per each. With the date() function, the timestamps for each are 12/31/1969.

   Code with the_time() - http://paste.uni.cc/7556
   Code with date() - http://paste.uni.cc/7555

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