Author: Dave Clements

Group recent WordPress posts by date published

On a news site, it’s often helpful to group posts in reverse chronological order, with a date heading for all articles that were published on that date. You can achieve that with this snippet:

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query( array( 'showposts' => 20, 'post_type' => 'news' ) );
while( $my_query->have_posts() ): $my_query->the_post();
	$i = get_the_date( 'F j, Y' );
	if ($i == $j):
		// do nothing
	else :
		if ( $k == 1 ): ?>
			</ul>
		<?php endif; 
		$j = $i;
		$k = 1; ?>
		<h4><?php echo $i; ?></h4>
		<ul>
	<?php endif; ?>
	<li>
		<span class="news-title">
			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
		</span>
	</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>

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