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1. WPChina
   Member
   Posted 4 years 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>";
   }

2. MichaelH
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   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 ';
   }
   ?>

3. WPChina
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   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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