How to display all posts with today’s same month and day only?

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I’m trying to figure out how to do this. I have many posts. I want it so that when someone pulls up the site, the front page shows all the posts that were done on the same month and day — but disregards the year. So, if I were to pull up the website on Jan. 30, I would see all posts done on Jan. 30th of ANY year… a historical listing. I was also thinking of doing it by category, if the category was named Jan-30, is there a way I can get the system to take today’s date and compare it to the categories, and show the one that matches (no year, of course)?

Can anyone help?

3 Answers
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You can achieve this with the date_query parameters added in version 3.7.

To modify the main query on your posts page before it is run and apply the date_query parameters, we use the pre_get_posts action:

function historical_posts_list( $query ){
    if( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ){
        $date_query = array(
            array(
                'month' => date( 'n', current_time( 'timestamp' ) ),
                'day' => date( 'j', current_time( 'timestamp' ) )
            )
        );
        $query->set( 'date_query', $date_query );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'historical_posts_list' );

If the page you want this on isn’t your posts page, you can add a custom query in your template with the same parameters, and run a separate loop:

$posts_from_today = new WP_Query( array(
    'date_query' => array(
        array(
            'month' => date( 'n', current_time( 'timestamp' ) ),
            'day' => date( 'j', current_time( 'timestamp' ) )
        ),
    ),
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
) );

if( $posts_from_today->have_posts() ){
    while( $posts_from_today->have_posts() ){
        $posts_from_today->the_post();
        the_title();
    }
}

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