the old announce tag is no longer supported or used…  it didnt work quite right and very few folks used it…

but the recent posts widget is alive and well… did you download the template tags plugin?  it is part of that…

Ah.  No, I didn’t download that as it didn’t seem to be what I was looking for.  No one on my forum uses tags…. tags are not part of our “world”.  I will grab it; thank you.

[I should note that sf-announce worked perfectly for me for many years.  I had no issues with it at all.]

just to be clear, I said template tags, not tags…  two different things…  here is the wp definition of template tags:  http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags

ours is pretty much the same thing, but SP focused…

Yes, I see that now.  My eye saw the word “tags” and slid right on by.  I’ve quit developing themes for wp in the last few years, so template tags are rather “out of my reckoning” now.  Sorry for the need to ask a silly question!

no worries…

Dear Simple:press team,

since it’s in the same vein, would it be possible – without a ton of hassle – to add some kind of “todays posts”, feature; listing all the posts since 00:00am of the current date? A customer asked for this feature…

and – altough this touches another plugin: would the same feature be possible for the users who have been online on the current day?

thx in advance and best regards,

Dosenben

It could be done very easily actually just by changing the where clause in the sql query that is sent. Although the Latest Posts tag would be  better suited for this.

The online one is a bit more problematic and would require something new to be coded up.

Thank you for the quick answer Andy!

Sorry if i’m getting on your nerves , but could you point me in the right direction? With a bit of spare time, i’d trust myself to get this right, but at the moment my clients are bombing me with absurd tasks; and i have some deep-seated fears of wrecking it up just because i rushed things. I’d be very obliged!

The second issue (who was online today) isn’t that important. Any chance to see something like that in the far future?

best regards, Dosenben

Go to the forum plugins folder and take a look at the file  /template-tags/library/sp-LatestPosts-tag.php

Take a look at line 127. You should be able to replace this sql WHERE clause with your specific query. SFPOSTS is a constant that points to the forum posts table. I have not tried this of course!

Is your php and sql up to that?

Of course I would recommend you duplicate the whole function – give it a new name and make it accessible.

I think we could get interested in this so I might give it a whirl myself later when I have a moment.

Yeah, i guess i am – will have a look at it tomorrow; and get back to you with the results!

many thanks!

This ought to do it:

$midnight = date('Y-m-d', time()).' 00:00:00';
$where = SFPOSTS.".post_date >= '$midnight'", 'post_id DESC';

I created a new template tag for this this morning so that will make an appearance with 5.1 due out next week. Note this is a template tag and optional shortcode. Not a widget.

is the template tags plugin update requiring 5.1?  If not, no reason we couldnt push the release out now if you are happy with it…  LOL, already have a lot of plugins to update when 5.1 releases so not adding more would be good!

yes – small change to the lost post class.