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Curious about how to manage, track, or generate a report of the posts published on your WordPress website in a given month? Whether you’re a single blogger trying to keep track of your content, or managing a team of writers on a larger site, being able to easily see how many posts have been published in a specific timeframe can be a crucial part of managing your site’s content strategy. In this article, we will guide you through the process of tracking monthly posts on your WordPress platform.
function wpturbo_posts_this_month( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$today = getdate();
$query->set( 'monthnum', $today['mon'] );
$query->set( 'year', $today['year'] );
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'wpturbo_posts_this_month' );
This PHP code snippet is for WordPress websites, it allows you to display only the posts published in the current month on your website’s home page.
At the beginning of our code, we define a new function wpturbo_posts_this_month($query). This function incorporates, as an input parameter, the $query object. It is passed by WordPress and represents the query that WordPress is about to execute on the database.
Within the function, we first check whether the query is for the home page, and it is the main query by using the conditional statement $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query(). This is important because we don’t want to alter other queries like menu queries, widget queries, admin queries etc. We are only interested in the main query that displays posts on our site’s homepage.
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {We then use the PHP getdate() function to get the current date and store it in the variable $today.
$today = getdate();Next, we modify the original $query object by using the set() method to set the ‘monthnum’ and ‘year’ properties to represent the current month and year respectively.
$query->set( 'monthnum', $today['mon'] );
$query->set( 'year', $today['year'] );In this way, WordPress will only fetch the posts that match these criteria when it executes the query. Essentially, WordPress will filter the posts and only display the ones published in the current month and year on the home page.
After defining the function, we then attach it to the ‘pre_get_posts’ action hook by using add_action(). This WordPress hook allows us to alter the $query object before the actual query is executed.
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'wpturbo_posts_this_month' );In conclusion, this custom function, attached before the execution of the WordPress main query, allows us to modify our homepage loop to display only the posts of the current month.