I need to have 5 random posts on post page (http://7cuteoutfits.com/2015/07/08/suits-rachel-z-office-fashion/) excluding current post. Random posts should be on chosen dates (for example posts from last 2 months until yesterday ) I added a few lines of code to single.php of my wordpress and now have 5 random posts. So I need to modify the code so that it will meet my requirements (above). I think it's 2 more lines, I'll be very thankful if you help.
<ul>
<?php
$currentID = get_the_ID();
$args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 5, 'orderby' => 'rand' );
$rand_posts = get_posts( $args);
foreach ( $rand_posts as $post ) :
setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach;
wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
</ul>
You can use WP_Query for that.
global $post;
$args = array(
'post__not_in' => array($post->ID)
'orderby' => 'rand'
'date_query' => array(
array(
'after' => 'January 1st, 2015',
'before' => array(
'year' => 2015,
'month' => 07,
'day' => 9,
),
'inclusive' => true,
),
),
'posts_per_page' => 5,
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
This query orders randomly posts between today (inclusive) and Jan. 1st 2015 I haven't tested the snippet here, so please let me know if it does not work for you.
More info on WP_query and its usage (also for date parameters) here
Once you query with WP_Query, you have to
wp_reset_postdata();
just as you are already doing.
EDIT:
To show the post content, you can call
the_content()
to print it directly, or
get_the_content()
to get it as a return value. Then you can handle the printing later with the HTML markup you desire.