Feature Request: Img for new posts only?

This would be a good feature to add. I’ll search around and see what i can find.

I don’t think there’s a plugin that currently does that…. but would be a nice addition.

Tg

I am looking for such a plugin as well. In case someone needs extra posts to ‘show a need’ before they work on it.

To clarify, I guess I would like this for 1.5 strayhorn.

I have a ‘temperature gauge’ that I’ll be updating for 1.5 that might be easily adapted to show new posts as well.

If you check out my site, I use ‘hot’ icons next to posts that have a certain ratio of pageviews-to-age, with a funky function to accelerate the falloff. I should probably accelerate it more, but it works for the moment. In fact, I SHOULD be using a few different icons, for hot, hotter, hottest sorta breakdown. Easy to link to certain ‘heat index’ boundaries in my nomenclature.

But what I basically do is tack an img onto the header of the post — I’ll have to see if I can intercept that easily in 1.5. If not, previously (6 mos back) I did something similar tacked onto the meta heading (posted-by, or date, or something).

-d
CHAITGEAR

I was just searching for this too. I guess it could be done by just some if statements in the loop to apply a div class or id if it is less than x days/hours from the post date…

but i don’t know php well enough to attempt it….

Some if statement?

<?php
$hours = 24;
$post_time = get_the_time('U', false);
$now = time('U');
$diff = ($now - $post_time) / 3600;
if($hours > ceil($diff)) : ?>

<img src="/PATH/TO/IMAGE.GIF" alt="NEW" title="NEW" />

<?php endif; ?>

Change the $hours variable to the number of hours you want the image to display.

Thanks Kafkaesqui! That works beautifully! Below is how I have it implemented on my site to sit next to the date of the post…

<h2><?php the_date("","",""); ?>

<?php
$hours = 120;
$post_time = get_the_time("U", false);
$now = time("U");
$diff = ($now - $post_time) / 3600;
if($hours > ceil($diff)) : ?>

<img src="/wp/wp-images/new.gif" alt="NEW" title="NEW" />

<?php endif; ?></h2>

AWESOME. Drop-in code rules. I knew if Kafkaesqui got wind of this request it would be well executed.

Thanks K!

“Drop-in code rules.”

I think so. It could easily be written up as little plugin, but sometimes it’s good to see how things work (and all the better to modify).

(Got wind? Eww. ;)