FacetWP Time Since facet typeThe Time Since facet type can be used to filter posts by date / time since a specified interval.

When calculating the time intervals, the Time Since add-on honors the timezone you have set on the WordPress General Settings page.

Available options

Name Description
Data Source A date field, for example “Post Date”, “Post Modified”. Or a custom field in YYYY-MM-DD format.
Default label Change the default “Any” label for the chosen UI type:

  • For the “Radio” UI type it enables an “Any” choice above the other radio buttons and sets its text. Leave it blank to remove the “Any” option.
  • For the “fSelect” UI type it sets the text of the default first “Any” dropdown choice. To set a fixed “selected” label, see this explanation on the fSelect facet page.
  • For the “Dropdown” UI type it sets the text of the default first “Any” choice.

Note: this label is translatable with the facetwp_i18n hook.
Choices The choices to display (one per line), consisting of a label and a format, separated by a |: label | format. A few examples:

Past Day | -1 day
Past 7 Days | -7 days
Past 30 Days | -30 days
Past 90 Days | -90 days
Past Year | -1 year
Next 7 Days | +7 days
Today | today
Tomorrow | tomorrow
Yesterday | yesterday

The formatter is based on PHP’s strtotime function. See the available relative date-time formats.

The choices labels are translatable with the facetwp_i18n hook.
UI type The UI type of this facet:

Note: if you select the fSelect UI type, you can also apply all customizations described on the fSelect facet page, like setting a custom fixed label, changing the search box text, changing the “No results found” text, and hiding the search box.
Show ghosts This setting is only visible for UI types “Radio” and “fSelect”. If enabled, facet choices (created with the facet’s “Choices” setting) that would return zero results are still shown, but dimmed and not clickable. If disabled, facet choices that have no associated posts will be hidden.

Note: with this setting enabled, you can also (intentionally) create choices that have zero results before filtering, which is slightly different from the behaviour of other facet types’ ghosts, which only show up after filtering.

Using custom time ranges

Let’s say you wanted to add a choice to filter by Older than 1 year.

First, add a new row into the “Choices” box:

Older than 1 year | over-1-year

As you can see over-1-year is the custom formatting token. Since PHP doesn’t know how to automatically parse this, a hook is needed to set the date range manually:

How to use custom PHP code?
PHP code can be added to your (child) theme's functions.php file. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Hooks add-on, or a code snippets plugin. More info
add_filter( 'facetwp_time_since_date_range', function( $range, $format ) {
  if ( 'over-1-year' == $format ) {
    $dt1 = new \DateTime( '1970-01-01' );
    $dt2 = new \DateTime( '-1 year' );

    $range['lower'] = $dt1->format( 'Y-m-d' );
    $range['upper'] = $dt2->format( 'Y-m-d' );
  }

  return $range;
}, 10, 2);

Hide counts

To hide the counts, use any of the following styles, depending on which facet (types) you want to target:

How to use custom CSS?
CSS code can be placed in your (child) theme's style.css file. Alternatively, you can add it manually between <style> tags in the <head> section, in your (child) theme's header.php file. You can also load it with a hook in your (child) theme's functions.php file, or in the Custom Hooks add-on. To load the code only on pages with facets, use the facetwp_scripts hook. To load it on all pages, use wp_head or wp_footer.  Or you can use a code snippets plugin. More info
/* Hide counts in all Time Since facets */
[data-type="time_since"] .facetwp-counter {
  display: none;
}

/* Hide counts in a specific Time Since facet */
.facetwp-facet-yourfacetname .facetwp-counter {
  display: none;
}

Create a month/year facet

The Time Since add-on cannot be used to create a facet that shows years (or months and years) as facet choices. See this example that shows how to create a month/year facet using the facetwp_index_row hook.

Changelog

1.7.1

  • Fixed proper timezone support

1.7

  • New added "UI Type" setting

1.6.7

  • New added "Default label" UI setting
  • Fixed facet counter CSS class now matches other facets
  • Fixed linked to docs in the setting tooltip

1.6.5

  • New ability to use custom format ranges (see the doc page)
  • Fixed default to "OR" mode for all Time Since choices

1.6.4

  • Fixed User Selections facet was empty
  • Fixed use JS versioning to bust caching

1.6.3

  • Fixed filtering broken when labels are translated using `facetwp_i18n` hook

1.6.2

  • Improved changed textdomain to `facetwp-time-since`
  • Fixed choice labels can now be translated via the `facetwp_i18n` hook
  • Fixed undefined $token variable (props Rhys)

1.6

  • New revamped filtering logic to support "today", "tomorrow", and "yesterday"

1.5.1

  • Changed replaced `wp.hooks` to `FWP.hooks` due to conflict with WP 5.0

See also

Last updated: March 12, 2024