Comparing post date get_the_date() from today – WordPress

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I want to be able to calculate the days that post was created and compare with today to echo “Today/ Yesterday/ Last Week/ Last Month”. The date format I get from get_the_date() is “December 1, 2015” so I’m wondering if I need to use a different function that I don’t know about.

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  1. You just need to the get_the_date() function;

    Now Date Should In YYYY-MM-DD Format

    for that

    $date1 = date('Y-m-d', strtotime(get_the_date())) ;
$current_date1 = date('Y-m-d', time()) ;

    Now use this function

    function dateDifference($date_1 , $date_2 )
{
    $datetime1 = date_create($date_1);
    $datetime2 = date_create($date_2);

    $interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);

    return $interval->format('%a');

}

//call above function
echo $days = dateDifference($date1, $current_date1);

  2. I’m not sure if there is any WordPress function but you can get your values using built in PHP functions.

    Yesterday:

    date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-1 day"));

    Last week

    date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-1 week +1 day"));

    Last month

    date('Y-m-'.1, strtotime("-1 month")); //First day of -1 month

    You can read more about strtotime here http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

    Here is also a link to the date function, if you havent had any experience with it before: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

    You would want to use Y-m-d format for wordpress querys read more about that here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

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