I have a custom-post-type wr_event
whose posts are sorted by meta_key
“event_date”.
Therefore I have this handy function …
function get_event_list( $latest = true, $order="ASC" ) {
echo '<ul class="event-items">';
$yesterday = time() - 24*60*60;
$compare = $latest ? '>' : '<';
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'wr_event',
'posts_per_page' => -1, // show all posts
'meta_key' => 'event_date',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'order' => $order,
'meta_value' => $yesterday,
'meta_compare' => $compare
);
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
get_template_part( 'inc/event', 'item' );
endwhile;
wp_reset_postdata();
echo '</ul>';
}
If I simply call ` all “upcoming” events are listed by their ascending event-date.
In my event-archive however I call ` so all events that have already taken place are sorted by their descending date.
My question:
How can I insert the year number between the posts in the event-archive?
Right now I have this …
- event 04-2012
- event 03-2012
- event 02-2012
- event 01-2012
- event 03-2011
- event 02-2011
- event 02-2011
- event 05-2010
- … and so on
And what I want is this …
2012
- event 04-2012
- event 03-2012
- event 02-2012
- event 01-2012
2011
- event 03-2011
- event 02-2011
- event 02-2011
2010
- event 05-2012
- … and so on
How could I insert the year number in between all events of a year?
Any clever ideas on that? I really need to find some way of doing this?
1 Answer
create a variable to hold the $current_year
you’re outputting, and check it against each event’s year, resetting the value when you encounter an event with a different year:
$current_year="";
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
// this is just a simple example of the logic,
// you'll need to extract the year from your date key
$this_year = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'event_date', true );
if( $this_year != $current_year ) :
// new year, output the year header
// and reset current year to this new value
echo '<h3>' . $this_year . '</h3>';
$current_year = $this_year;
endif;
echo 'event' . $this_year;
endwhile;