Thesis Tutorial – Adding Date Based Triggers to Your Posts
There are a lot of times when you are working on your blog template where you want things to happen based on how old a post is. This tutorial shows you how to do it. The programming is pretty simple and you don’t have to be using the WordPress Thesis Theme to do it, but it would be a lot easier if you were …
Lets tackle the big question first why would you want to change your blog based on how old each post is? When your posts are new maybe you want social media bookmarking buttons to appear, but you don’t want them on older posts. Maybe you don’t want to annoy your regular readers with advertising, but after a posts is over 30 days old you want to monetize your archives, with adsense. Maybe your listings in the SERP’s show a date with them, this may be helpful for posts that are new, but as posts age this may cut down on the number of clicks you get from a search engine. Those are just a few examples, there are many many more.
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to ad a block of adsense under the author by line. Let’s step through the code, the first thing we want to do is figure out how old the post is, here’s how we do it:
//how many days old is this post
$daysold = (current_time(timestamp) – get_the_time(‘U’) -
(get_settings(‘gmt_offset’)))/(24*60*60);
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