Post visibility control, future

  • mellett

    (@mellett)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    I’m trying to provide my users with the ability to see a post in advance. If a post is for Feb 29, I want them to be able to see it at a certain time on Feb 28 (say, 7pm). This is for a fitness website where people like to see the workout for tomorrow.

    I don’t know if the best place to do this is in pre_get_posts and I’ve tried it there but my php knowledge is limited (Java I’d be fine) and I’m getting errors left, right and center. I’ve tried the date_query but again I don’t think my syntax is correct and I don’t have it here to put up for inspection. Any functioning script kiddie post would be great for me right now 🙂

    from memory it is something similar to
    — check for main query and appropriate category —
    $today = getToday();
    $date_query = array(‘before’=>array(‘year’=>$today(“year”),
    ‘month’=>$today(“month”),
    ‘day’=>$today(“mday”)+1),
    ‘inclusive’=>true)

    mainQuery-set=>’dateQuery’ = $date_query;

    yes I’m aware that the syntax is off but I’m no where near it so please don’t fry me 🙂

    On another note is there a way to sandbox the wordpress instance so I don’t take down the entire sight while I play around with it?

    Thanks and I’d appreciate any help
    Andy

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    I don’t have any functional script I can offer, but I can point you in the right direction. You’ll still need to struggle with correct syntax, but that is mainly a matter of patience.

    You wouldn’t use WP_Date_Query directly because the query passed in ‘pre_get_posts’ is a WP_Query object. It has its own date query syntax. https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Date_Parameters

    What you will want to do is set the ‘date_query’ query var to a structured array as described in the reference.

    You will also want to add ‘future’ the ‘post_status’ query var array.

    The ultimate WP sandbox is a local installation of Apache with WP installed on it. XAMPP is a very popular package that includes PHP, mySQL (mariaDB), and Perl with Apache. https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

    If you use Linux, you can probably also install Apache directly from your O/S repository.

    You should be able to find a step by step instruction for your specific situation.

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