The main issue in your code is this part: $query->set(‘orderby’,’meta_value_date’); whereby you should use meta_value and not meta_value_date. (There is meta_value_num, but that’s not suitable for used with sorting by dates.) Then make sure the meta_type is set to DATE (which yes, you already done it correctly), and use the right date format — 10132020 … Read more
That’s because that’s what those functions do. For example: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_date Use the PHP date() function
You can see everything returned via php’s var_dump or print_r: $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(); echo ‘<pre>’; print_r( $recent_posts ); echo ‘</pre>’; This will reveal that the date is stored in post_date: foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ): echo $recent[‘post_date’]; endforeach; Or to format the date, use php’s date and strtotime: echo date( ‘l F jS’, strtotime( $recent[‘post_date’] … Read more
get_the_time() function returns the time of the current post within loop. If you want to display today’s date then use date function of core php.
That format is almost readable by strtotime. Remove the commas and it will convert. $t=”27 January, 2012, 5:05 AM”; $t = str_replace(‘,’,”,$t); $t = strtotime($t); echo date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’,$t);
There was an issue with the code originally posted by kaiser in that it queried for year, month and day distinctly resulting in values representing “the largest month for any date” or the “smallest day for any date” rather than values representing the MAX and MIN dates globally. I altered that original code to query … Read more
Most of the times, you can just leave it empty and the wp_insert_post will take care of handling it but if you want to set it use php’s function: gmdate(“Y-m-d h:m:s”, strtotime($current_user->user_registered)) which works exactly like the php date function.
I believe all the info you need is in the PHP Manual for Date/Time. Also, it is recommended that you use get_the_date(); instead of the_date(); Get them month in 3 cap letters? M is the right format character that outputs a short textual representation of a month (3 chars). Why can’t you use CSS to … Read more
$last_month = null; $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ ); $the_query = new WP_Query($args); while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); $the_month = get_the_time( ‘Ym’ ); // e.g. 201611 if ( $last_month !== $the_month ) { if ( $last_month !== null ) { // Close previously opened … Read more
&orderby=date will return posts by their dates. <?php query_posts(‘post_type=page&post_parent=2&posts_per_page=-1&orderby=date&order=ASC’); ?> Replace first line with this to show post according to their date. Reference – Passing variables to query_posts Update – To sort the posts as per custom field value, Here’s the new code. query_posts(‘post_type=post&posts_per_page=-1&orderby=meta_value&meta_key=next_open_day&order=ASC’); ?> Note – The date should be saved in – YYYY-MM-DD … Read more