[User]

Hi Michael,

I send a weekly e-newsletter based on our website at http://www.uumiddleboro.org. Our minister writes a monthly column, which stays on the website for 11 days and then disappears. I do to do something similar in the weekly newsletter, so the same column does not appear repeatedly after it has gone “stale.” In addition to choosing a category and limiting the number of posts shown, I want to limit the amount of time before they disappear.

To automate the disappearance of a post from the website, I use the code snippet below, which enables me to add to any query block a CSS class called since-xx-days-ago that chooses only posts that are less than xx days old.

I hope this clarifies what I am looking for! It is similar to the “Range” setting in the Events Calendar block, but applied to the publication date of the post.

Thanks,
Dan

add_filter( ‘generateblocks_query_wp_query_args’, function( $query_args, $attributes ) {
if ( is_admin() || empty( $attributes[‘className’] ) ) {
return $query_args;
}
// Look for a class like: since-20-days-ago, since-7-days-ago, etc.
if ( preg_match( ‘/since-(\d+)-days-ago/’, $attributes[‘className’], $matches ) ) {
$days = absint( $matches[1] ); // e.g. 20
$query_args[‘date_query’] = array(
array(
‘after’ => “{$days} days ago”,
),
);
}
return $query_args;
}, 10, 2 );

[Author]

Posts