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[Ricardo]

Ricardo

#18906

I’m questioning myself if it’s really this difficult, or that it just sound like it is 😉

Summed up: I want a list of posts on a page, connected to a different date then the post date. That different date should be used to show the link in a widget on the correct date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#18907

Well, in theory, I think you would need to first create a new field for each post so that the “day of release” could be retained. Then, you would need to create a function in a php widget which would only display posts where your custom field matched the current date.

Just don’t ask me the correct syntax to use 😉

[Syahir Hakim]

Syahir Hakim

#18908

You can use the custom fields in the post to give them the release date. Then you can create a custom query in the sidebar using PHP Widget to only show posts whose release date matches the current date.

And I just realised that is sort of what Josh was saying.

[TobiF]

TobiF

#18909

You can manually edit the “publish date” of a post.

So, why not write special whort “Released today” notes and put them in a special category, and edit their date to be the release date?

Then your coding for the widget would be simpler: loop through all posts in the relevant category, and show the post if current time – publishing time is less than 24 hours…

[Ricardo]

Ricardo

#18910

This is really hard to accomplish guys! I think Syahir’s method sounds best because I don’t want to change my publish dates.

How do you make a custom query that searches the custom fields for the dates that match the current date? sorry I’m asking this much, but I would really like this to work (I’ve been Googling all weekend on this one)

[Syahir Hakim]

Syahir Hakim

#18911

You’ll need to use the WP_Query() class for the custom query. http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Custom_Field_Parameters

Something like this will probably work:

$args = array(

'meta_key' => 'release-date',

'meta_value' => date( 'j F Y' ), // Modify parameter to match your date format

);

$posts = new WP_Query( $args );

Then make sure you run the loop to loop through the posts found (if any).

[Ricardo]

Ricardo

#18912

I know it’s been a while since I replied on this one, but still working on it. This is what I’ve done:

I gave a post a custom field called: ‘Release date’ and gave it this value: ’05-12-2011′.

I added a PHP cod widget with this code:

<?php

$args = array(

'meta_key' => 'release-date',

'meta_value' => date( 'D M Y' ),

);

$posts = new WP_Query( $args );

?>

The box is still not showing anything now, what am I missing? 🙂

http://www.fastforwardandrewind.com

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#18913

Make sure the date format you are using as the value matches the date format in Syahir’s code.

So, using your date format of 05-12-2011, the code should be this:

<?php

$args = array(

'meta_key' => 'release-date',

'meta_value' => date( 'd-m-Y' ),

);

$posts = new WP_Query( $args );

?>

See this for reference, http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Notice the lower case d and m, and the hyphens. Not sure if that’s the problem, though…

[Ricardo]

Ricardo

#18914

This information is new to me, I didn’t know this would matter when working with PHP. It still doesn’t work though:/

Thanks for the info!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#18915

Maybe name your custom field release-date instead of Release date??