Title: Loading posts only from last month with posts
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Loading posts only from last month with posts

 *  [Agence Myso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agence-myso/)
 * (@agence-myso)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-posts-only-from-last-month-with-posts/)
 * Hi there,
 * The topic may seem to be a little odd, but this is my problem.
    I have quite 
   an unusual menu composed of three columns : 1st level : a typical menu (created
   thanks to `wp_nav_menu`, first item is ‘NEWS’. 2nd level : `wp_get_archives` (
   corresponding to the item ‘NEWS) displaying a list of the 12 last months. 3rd
   level : the posts corresponding to each month (`wp_query` using `date_query`).
 * When you get to the homepage, you are directly getting to the NEWS section.
    
   There, the second column displays the list of months, no problem. Then, third
   column displays the list of posts. This works as soon as you are in the current
   month. As soon as you are for example in february, but your last posts were posted
   in january, no list of posts is created…
 * To be clearer, I’ll add my code :
 *     ```
       if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
   
                   <div class="navigation col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-sm-9 col-xs-12">
   
                       <div class="menu1 auto-current col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4 col-xs-12">
   
                           <?php
                                $args = array(
                                   'theme_location' => 'header-menu'
                               );
                               wp_nav_menu($args);
                           ?>
                       </div>
                       <div class="menu-mask">
   
                           <div class="menu2 auto-current col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4 col-xs-6">
   
                           <?php
                           $args = array(
                                   'type'            => 'monthly',
                                   'post_type'       => 'video',
                                   'limit'           => '12',
                                   'format'          => 'html',
                                   'before'          => '',
                                   'after'           => '',
                                   'show_post_count' => false,
                                   'echo'            => 1,
                                   'order'           => 'DESC'
                               );
                           wp_get_archives_cpt($args); ?>
   
                           </div>
   
                           <div class="menu3 auto-current col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-sm-4 col-xs-6">
   
                           <?php 
   
                           /* var_dump($GLOBALS['wp_query']); */
   
                           $month = get_the_time('m');
                           $year = get_the_time('Y');
   
                           $args = array(
                               'post_type'         => array('video'),
                               'orderby'           => 'post_date',
                               'order'             => 'DESC',
                               'posts_per_page'    => -1,
                               'date_query'        => array(
                                   array(
                                       'month'         => $month,
                                       'year'          => $year
                                   ),
                               )
                           );
   
                                   $the_query = new WP_Query($args);
                                   if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) :
                                   echo '<ul>';
                                       while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
                                               <li><a class="post-link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
                                           <?php
                                       endwhile;
                                   echo '</ul>';
                                   endif; ?>
   
                           </div>
                       </div>           
   
                   </div>
   
                   <div class="video-container col-lg-8 col-md-6 col-xs-12">
   
                   <?php $args = array(
                           'post_type' => 'video',
                           'numberposts' => 1,
                           'orderby' => 'post_date',
                           'order' => 'DESC'
                       );
   
                       $recent_posts = get_posts( $args );
   
                       if ($recent_posts) {
   
                           foreach ($recent_posts as $post) :
   
                           $post_ID = get_the_ID();
                            /*echo $post_ID.' '; */
   
                           $next_vid = get_permalink(get_adjacent_post( true, '', true )); ?>
   
                           <video id="my-video-js" class="video-js vjs-default-skin vjs-big-play-centered" controls preload="auto" autoplay
                           data-setup='{}' width="auto" height="auto">
                               <source src="<?php echo get_field('video_mp4'); ?>" type="video/mp4">
                               <source src="<?php echo get_field('video_webm'); ?>" type="video/webm">
                           </video>
   
                       <?php endforeach;
                       } ?>
   
                   </div>
               <?php }
       get_template_part('partials/video-grid-date');
       get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * See what my problem is ???
    I need to display the last posts from the last month
   with post… In other words, I need something like : ‘hey WP, please look at the
   last month which has posts and get all of them, but only them, not the ones from
   the previous months.”
 * Any idea??

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-posts-only-from-last-month-with-posts/#post-5738726)
 * Hello AM, back for more, eh? 🙂
 * I think what you need to do is add an `else :` condition to `if ( $the_query-
   >have_posts() ) :`. Here you would do a new query where you get the posts from
   only the previous month by using `$month-1` in the date query.
 * You probably should also output something like “Nothing for this month yet, here’s
   last month’s posts” as an explanation of why the user sees we are in February
   but is seeing January posts.
 * This assumes there are enough posts each month that a previous month query will
   always return something. If there are likely months without any posts, organizing
   archives by month may not be the best strategy.

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