Create a post date filter to find items published within the last 10 minutes

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Last updated by Bobby339 5 years ago.

Assisted by: Nigel.

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November 22, 2019 at 1:09 am #1389117

Bobby339

As the title says, I am trying to create a filter that will find posts published between right now and 10 minutes ago but it's not working 🙁

I'm uploading a screenshot of my filter, can you tell me where I am going wrong?

November 22, 2019 at 1:10 am #1389127

Bobby339

also... how does it work with the hour changing and/or the day changing? If it's really complex, don't worry about it.

November 22, 2019 at 8:50 am #1389243

Nigel

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Hi Bobby

Those settings for filtering post published date are tricky and in my experience it's not possible to set up such a filter for "since" type queries such as since 10 minutes ago.

It is easier to just use the Views API and add a date_query argument, which accepts a very flexible textual comparison.

Try the following, after editing the ID of your View.

function tssupp_filter_query($view_args, $view_settings, $view_id)
{
    if (in_array($view_id, array(123))) { // Edit 123 for your View ID
 
        $view_args['date_query'] = array(
            'after'     =>  '10 minutes ago',
            'column'    =>  'post_modified'
        );
    }
    return $view_args;
}
add_filter('wpv_filter_query', 'tssupp_filter_query', 101, 3);

November 23, 2019 at 2:26 pm #1390295

Bobby339

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!