Exclude old posts before “TODAY”

  • Tommie Hansen

    (@tommiehansen)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    Good day,

    I’m doing an events calender and need to dynamically exclude event posts that are older then TODAY via a custom value (not the actual wordpress post date, the custom value date).

    Any ideas? My code so far…:

    <h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
<?php
$lastposts = get_posts('category_name=events&meta_key=edate&orderby=meta_value&numberposts=3&order=asc');
foreach($lastposts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>

<div class="newsitem" onclick="location.href='<?php the_permalink() ?>';">
<div class="overlay" title="Click to read more about this event."></div>
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<p>Date: <?php $key="edate"; if(get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true)){ echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); } ?><br />Location: <?php $key="elocation"; if(get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true)){ echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); } ?></p>
</div>

<?php endforeach; ?>

    I guess i’m in need of some ‘if’ + ‘AND’ to get posts only between *NOW* and the future (like year 2097 or something 🙂 …)

    But how….? My date format for the custom field is YEAR-MOTH-DAY, i.e. 2009-10-31.

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  • Thread Starter Tommie Hansen

    (@tommiehansen)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    I solved it myself with a count-value! Now it works great and without any bloated plugin or something. 🙂

    <?php
$lastposts = get_posts('category_name=kalender&meta_key=kdatum&orderby=meta_value&order=asc');
  $count = 0;
	foreach($lastposts as $post) :
	  if ($count >= 3) {
	    break;
	  }
		setup_postdata($post);
		//check the dates
		$todays_date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime('-1 day'));
		$kdatum = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'kdatum', $single = true);
		if(strtotime($kdatum) > strtotime($todays_date)) {
			?>
			<div class="newsitem" onclick="location.href='<?php the_permalink() ?>';">
			<div class="overlay" title="Klicka för att läsa mer"></div>
			<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
			<p>Datum: <?php $key="kdatum"; if(get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true)){ echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); } ?><br />Plats: <?php $key="kplats"; if(get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true)){ echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); } ?></p>
			</div>
			<?php
			$count += 1;
		} //end date check ?>
	<?php endforeach; ?>
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