How do I set up my blog home page to show only this weeke’s posts automatically?

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1. According to docs you can retrieve such set of posts by using Time Parameters with query_posts(), but note that it will likely horribly break your pagination and links to older entries.

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2. I guess i’m not really following Rarst’s concerns regarding paging and prev/next linking, i think you can safely intercept the home page query and change the query vars to look at posts within a specific time range, i tend to favour the filter/action approach(no need to setup paging values).

   add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'home_week_query' );
   function home_week_query( $wpq ) {
       if( $wpq->is_admin || !$wpq->is_home )
           return;
       if( isset( $wpq->query_vars['post_type'] ) && ( 'nav_menu_item' == $wpq->query_vars['post_type'] ) )
           return;
   
       if( !did_action('wp') )
           return;
   
       $today = getdate();
       $wpq->set( 'year', $today["year"] );
       $wpq->set( 'monthnum', $today["mon"] );
       $wpq->set( 'day', $today["mday"] );
   }
   

   Paging works and the posts are within the specific range, but let me know if you have any problems with the code.

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3. I hired an offshore developer to apply what I wanted, the previous week’s posts on a home page to a Thematic themed site. In retrospect, I should have asked him to apply two weeks (current week + this week):

   You can download the theme here if you want to check it out…
   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4016505/thematic-wpweekly.net.zip

   But here’s what he did (in his words) – hopes it makes some sense…

   Copy given code into “function.php” file in current theme folder. This will put
   condition to your original query for weekly post.

   function filter_where( $where = '' ) {
           $end_Date = date('Y-m-d',mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),date('d')-date('w')-1 ,date('Y'))) ;
           $start_Date = date('Y-m-d',mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),date('d')-date('w')-7 ,date('Y'))) ;
   
   $where .= " AND post_date >= '".$start_Date."' AND post_date <= '".$end_Date."' ";
   return $where;
   

   }

   Now it will display last week post post but you can modify $end_Date and $start_Date
   variable and set this to current date or any given range of time period.

   if(isset($_GET) and count($_GET)<=0){
       add_filter( 'posts_where', 'filter_where' );
       }
   

   Both code should be write with the other add_filter function and above the given code:

    $locale = get_locale();
   

   If you want to apply all post on the given time period then user given code just
   before the loop

   “have_posts() ) : the_post(); “ 
   

   in extension file in library folder in the current theme folder.

   global $query_string;
   query_posts( $query_string . "&posts_per_page=-1&order=desc" );
   

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