Title: Posts: Excluding/Including Current Month?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Posts: Excluding/Including Current Month?

 *  [jezthomp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jezthomp/)
 * (@jezthomp)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excludingincluding-current-month/)
 * Is there any way of querying the posts to display only the current months posts,
   say only Mays.
 * Then in an archive page show all the archive months excluding the current one
   your on, say excluding May but show, April,March,Feb, Jan etc etc..
 * Anyway to do this pref coding but a plugin perhaps?
 * Many thanks 🙂

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excludingincluding-current-month/#post-1513576)
 * You can get the current month’s posts by using the monthnum parameter:
 *     ```
       $monthnum = date('n')
       query_posts("monthnum=$monthnum");
       ```
   
 * Excluding the current month from the archive list can be done like this:
 *     ```
       <?php
       $archives = wp_get_archives('echo=0');
       $arcarray = explode('<li>',$archives);
       $junk = array_shift($arcarray); // First entry is empty
       $junk = array_shift($arcarray); // Current month is next
       $result = '<li>' . implode('<li>',$arcarray);
       echo $result;
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [jezthomp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jezthomp/)
 * (@jezthomp)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excludingincluding-current-month/#post-1513590)
 * Thanks for that vt.
 * So for example i wanted 2 pages, one showing the posts from the current month
   then another page showing all other months it would work like this…
 * Also only from cat id 1…
 * Current months posts…
 *     ```
       <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   
       <?php query_posts('cat=1');?>
       <?php
       $monthnum = date('n')
       query_posts("monthnum=$monthnum");
       ?>
       		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       			<!--News content current month-->
   
       			<?php the_content() ?>
   
       		<?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 * Surely the following is only listing an archive list, any chance it could control
   the posts?
 * All other months posts….
 *     ```
       <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   
       <?php query_posts('cat=1');?>
       <?php
       $archives = wp_get_archives('echo=0');
       $arcarray = explode('<li>',$archives);
       $junk = array_shift($arcarray); // First entry is empty
       $junk = array_shift($arcarray); // Current month is next
       $result = '<li>' . implode('<li>',$arcarray);
       echo $result;
       ?>
       		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       			<?php the_content() ?>
   
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 * Thanks again 🙂
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excludingincluding-current-month/#post-1513605)
 * I misunderstood what you wanted for the second part. You are right, what I showed
   only gives an archive list.
 * > Then in an archive page show all the archive months excluding the current one
 * It is more complicated to retrieve all posts, especially since you will probably
   want pagination. I will look into that more, but it may be more complex than 
   I can get into.
 * As for the first part, I think this is what you want:
 *     ```
       <?php
       $monthnum = date('n')
       query_posts("monthnum=$monthnum&cat=1");
       if (have_posts()) :
          while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
             <!--News content current month-->
             <?php the_content() ?>
          <?php endwhile; ?>
          <!-- Pagination here -->
       <?php else: ?>
          <!-- No posts found here -->
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * ‘if (have_posts())’ always goes after query_posts(), and each query_posts overrides
   the previous one.
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excludingincluding-current-month/#post-1513616)
 * To get posts in prior months, use the code below for your query_posts:
 *     ```
       //based on Austin Matzko's code from wp-hackers email list
         function filter_where($where = '') {
           //posts from prior months
           $year = date(Y);
           $monthnum = date(m);
           $where .= " AND post_date < '$year-$monthnum-01'";
           return $where;
         }
       add_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');
       $ignore_stickies = 1;  // Stickies will mess up the order
       $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
       query_posts("caller_get_posts=$ignore_stickies&paged=$paged");
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [jezthomp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jezthomp/)
 * (@jezthomp)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excludingincluding-current-month/#post-1513638)
 * Thanks vt, i’ll try them out.
 * Very much appreciated 🙂

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