earliest_day = 5;
$this->latest_day = 20;
}
protected function get_all_posts() {
// very quickly work out if we are sorting by cat or tag
$cat = '';
if ($_POST['incategory'] != '') {
$cat = '&cat=' . (int)$_POST['incategory'];
}
$tag = '';
if ($_POST['tagid'] != '') {
$tag = "&tag_id=" . (int) $_POST['tagid'];
}
$all_posts = array();
$all_query = new WP_Query('showposts=' . $this->abs_max_posts . $cat . $tag);
while($all_query->have_posts()) {
$all_query->the_post();
$orig_date = get_the_date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$i++;
$all_posts[get_the_ID()] = array
(
"link" => get_permalink(),
"title" => the_title('','',false),
"orig_date" => $orig_date,
);
}
return $all_posts;
}
public function redate_posts() {
if (isset($_POST['latest_day']) && is_numeric($_POST['latest_day'])) {
$this->latest_day = (int) $_POST['latest_day'];
}
if (isset($_POST['earliest_day']) && is_numeric($_POST['earliest_day'])) {
$this->earliest_day = (int) $_POST['earliest_day'];
}
if ($this->earliest_day == 0 && $this->latest_day == 0) {
echo "Please go back - you cannot set latest and earliest at 0
";
return;
}
if ($this->earliest_day < 0 || $this->latest_day < 0 ) {
echo "Please go back - you cannot either value as lower than 0
";
return;
}
if ($_POST['tagid'] !='' && $_POST['incategory'] != '') {
echo "Please go back - you cannot set both slug and category!
";
return;
}
$total_diff_in_days = $this->latest_day + $this->earliest_day;
echo "Reordering ";
echo "The earliest day is {$this->earliest_day} days ago. The latest day is {$this->latest_day} days in the future
";
$allposts = $this->get_all_posts();
if (count($allposts) > 0) {
$doneDays = array();
echo "";
foreach($allposts as $id => $postData) {
$link = $postData['link'];
$title = $postData['title'];
$random_days_behind = rand(0,$total_diff_in_days);
$random_days_behind = (int) $random_days_behind;
$day_diff = $random_days_behind - ($this->earliest_day );
if ($day_diff > 0) {
$plus_minus = '+';
}
else {
$day_diff = abs($day_diff); // get positive
$plus_minus = '-';
}
$doneDays[str_replace("+","",$plus_minus) . $day_diff]++;
$strtotimestring = $plus_minus . $day_diff . ' days';
$date_time = (strtotime($strtotimestring)); // H:i:s
// get the year/mo/day from strtotime(- xx days)
$newDate = date('Y-m-d', $date_time);
// randomly select a hh:mm:ss to post
$newDate.= " " . str_pad( rand(0,23) , 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT) . ":" . str_pad( rand(0,59) , 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT) . ":". str_pad( rand(0,59) , 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT) ;
$updateArray = array(
'ID' => $id,
'post_date' => $newDate,
'post_date_gmt' => $newDate,
'edit_date' => true,
);
$result = wp_update_post($updateArray);
echo "
$id $link $title
Original date: {$postData['orig_date']}
Changed date to : $newDate
";
}
echo "
";
echo "Counter: ";
ksort($doneDays);
echo "This shows the frequency of each post being posted x days ago/in future. It doesn't show every single day - only the ones with at least one post
";
//change for for() to show all days? might be handy
echo "+/- days Number of posts $id days $val posts
";
}
else {
echo "Error - Could not find any posts to reorder!
";
}
}
protected function get_all_cats_options() {
$args = array(
'type' => 'post',
'child_of' => 0,
'parent' => '',
'orderby' => 'name',
'order' => 'ASC',
'hide_empty' => 1,
'hierarchical' => 1,
'exclude' => '',
'include' => '',
'number' => '',
'taxonomy' => 'category',
'pad_counts' => true );
$categories = get_categories( $args );
$returnhtml = '';
foreach($categories as $cat) {
$id = $cat->cat_ID;
$name = $cat->name;
$c = $cat->category_count;
$returnhtml .= "$name ($c) ";
}
return $returnhtml;
}
protected function get_all_tags_options() {
$tags = get_tags();
$returnhtml = '';
if ($tags) {
foreach ($tags as $tag) {
$id = $tag->term_id;
$name = $tag->name;
$c = $tag->count;
$returnhtml .= "$name ($c) ";
}
}
else {
$returnhtml = "(you have no tags!) ";
}
return $returnhtml;
}
public function show_options() {
?>
Ash's Random Post Dater
Use this form to set ALL posts in the selected category to a random date between these two values.
This will update the post dates on ALL posts within the selected category/tag (or ALL posts in your wordpress blog if both are set to default). Please do not use if you do not want to reset ALL post dates. I do not recommend using this on a site with lots of live posts - especially if you use a permalink structure that includes the date in the url. I use it on new sites (add all content, then set all posts to random date in the past). Use at your own risk! You will lose the current post date time (it only changes the date posted - nothing else)
redate_posts();
}
else {
$random_post_dater->show_options();
}
}
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