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Are you looking to showcase the latest posts on your WordPress site? If so, there’s a simple way to do it – by displaying only today’s posts. By filtering out older content, you can ensure that your visitors are always seeing the most up-to-date information on your site. In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of setting up your WordPress site to display only today’s posts.
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To display today’s posts only, you will need to modify the main query using the pre_get_posts action hook. This action hook allows you to modify the parameters of the main query before it is executed.
First, you need to create a new function that will modify the main query. You can name this function whatever you prefer, but for the purpose of this explanation, let’s call it display_todays_posts_only().
Inside the display_todays_posts_only() function, you will need to check if you are currently on the main query and if it is the WordPress admin area. If both conditions are met, you can proceed with modifying the query parameters.
To display today’s posts only, you need to set the date_query parameter of the query to today’s date. This can be achieved by creating a new instance of the WP_Query class and setting the desired parameters. In this case, you will set the date_query parameter to indicate today’s date.
The modified display_todays_posts_only() function can be implemented as follows:
function display_todays_posts_only( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_main_query() && ! is_admin() ) {
$query->set( 'date_query', array(
array(
'year' => date( 'Y' ),
'month' => date( 'm' ),
'day' => date( 'd' ),
),
) );
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'display_todays_posts_only' );By hooking the display_todays_posts_only() function to the pre_get_posts action, you are instructing WordPress to modify the main query and display only today’s posts.
It’s important to note that this code should be placed in your theme’s functions.php file or in a custom plugin file.
Once you have added the code, WordPress will automatically modify the main query when displaying posts and show only the posts published on the current day.
Please make sure to test this code on a development environment before applying it to a live site.