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Possible to edit RSS feed URL or the feed itself to show posts from certain time period?

Possible to edit RSS feed URL or the feed itself to show posts from certain time period?

Beth Terry

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Dec 10, 2013 - 12:58 am

Hi. The URL for my forum feed for all posts is:

http://myplasticfreelife.com/f.....81d9ab816/

I would like to add this feed to a weekly newsletter template, and I'm wondering if there is a way to either add parameters to the URL to specify only posts written within the last 7 days (regardless of how many there are) or if there is a way to create a new feed that would only contain posts from the last 7 days. I figured out how to do it with my Wordpress feed. Is there a way to do it in Simple Press?

Thanks,

Beth Terry

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Glinton, England

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Dec 10, 2013 - 3:52 am

If you know how to use standard WordPress style filters then yes - there is one defined for the WHERE clause of the query for the Simple:Press feed. This takes this form:

$where = apply_filters('sph_rss_where', $where, $feed);

The passed $where variable contains the WHERE clause that will be used by the query and the $feed variable contains the feed type (such as 'group', 'forum' or 'all' etc).

You can massage the $where content to add a post_date clause

YELLOW

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Beth Terry

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Dec 11, 2013 - 7:06 pm

Actually, I'm not a programmer. I'm good at finding the code solutions I need by Googling and searching help forums and then copying and pasting. So I need more help than a line of code because I don't know what to do with it.

How about if I tell you what I did in Wordpress, and you can tell me how I would do something similar in SimplePress -- not just the code but where to put it or what file to create and where.

To create my custom Wordpress feed showing only posts for the past 7 days, I created a new template called rss-last7days.php and put it in my theme folder. Then, right after :

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

I added:

<?php $mylimit=7 * 86400; //days * seconds per day
 $post_age = date('U') - get_post_time('U');
 if ($post_age < $mylimit) { ?>

This was code that I found in a Wordpress forum. I am good at copying and pasting and sort of understanding what it is that the php is doing. But I'm not a programmer.

So, to use the code that you have provided above, do I need to create a new template? If so, where do I put it? Do I need to edit sp-feed.php? If so, won't my changes get overwritten by updates? What other steps do I need to take?

Thanks,

Beth

Yellow Swordfish

Glinton, England

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Dec 12, 2013 - 7:12 am

I think this should do it:

$where = apply_filters('sph_rss_where', $where, $feed);

add_filter('sph_rss_where', 'feed_filter', 1, 2);
function feed_filter($w, $f) {
    $w .= ' AND ' . SFPOSTS .'.post_date > DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 7 DAY) ';
    return $w;
}

You want to put that in either spFunctions.php file of the Simple:Press theme you are using (in the /templates folder of the theme) - or - in the functions.php file of your WordPress theme.

If you choose the Sp theme route then remember - as always we recommend that you create your own SP theme so that any customisation is not lost during a future update. (http://codex.simple-press.com/.....g-a-theme/)

Anyway - try this and see if this works for you.

YELLOW

SWORDFISH

Beth Terry

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Dec 13, 2013 - 4:44 pm

It works! I added it to functions.php. Thank you!!!

Any time I want to change the number of days, I can just change "INTERVAL # DAY"

Beth