Group posts by Date on the front page?

time parameter of query_posts:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/query_posts#Time_Parametershttps://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/query_posts#Time_Parameters

the_date
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_date

hey thanks i got this but stuck on one thing i want to put category name with the post that showing here.. how can i do that…

<?php
  global $wpdb;
  $splitformat = '%A %B %Y';
  $sql = "SELECT ID, post_title, post_date
			FROM $wpdb->posts
			WHERE post_type = 'post' AND post_status = 'publish' AND post_date > '" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-3 days')) . "'
			ORDER BY post_date DESC
			";

  $posts = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
  $archives = array();
  foreach($posts as $post)
	{
		$key = strftime($splitformat, strtotime($post->post_date));
		$archives[$key][] = $post;
	}
  $output = $pre_HTML;
  	foreach($archives as $heading => $posts)
	{
		echo '<' . $headingtag . '>' . htmlentities($heading) . '</' . $headingtag . '>', "\n";
		echo '<ul>', "\n";

		foreach($posts as $post)
		{
			echo '	<li><a href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a></li>', "\n";
		}

		echo '</ul>', "\n\n";
	}
?>

thanks

Hello opblog, the above code helped me a lot, buy i want each date to be categories with post tittle as u. Pls help anyone?

here we go……..
<?php
global $wpdb;
$splitformat = ‘ %A %d %B %Y’;
$sql = “SELECT ID, post_title, post_date
FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE post_type = ‘post’ AND post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_date > ‘” . date(‘Y-m-d’, strtotime(‘-3000 days’)) . “‘
ORDER BY post_date DESC
“;
$posts = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
$archives = array();
foreach($posts as $post)
{
$key = strftime($splitformat, strtotime($post->post_date));
$archives[$key][] = $post;
}
$output = $pre_HTML;
foreach($posts as $post) :
$category = get_the_category();
$cats[$category[0]->cat_ID] = $category[0]->cat_name;
endforeach;
$cats = array_flip($cats);

foreach($archives as $heading => $posts)
{
echo ‘<‘ . $headingtag . ‘>’ . htmlentities($heading) . ‘</’ . $headingtag . ‘>’, “\n”;
echo ‘

‘, “\n”;
foreach($cats as $current_cat){?>
<h4 id=”cat-<?php echo $current_cat; ?>”>” title=”View all posts in <?php echo get_the_category_by_id($current_cat); ?>”><?php echo get_the_category_by_id($current_cat); ?></h4>
<?php foreach($posts as $post)
$category = get_the_category();
if($current_cat == $category[0]->cat_ID) // if post is in correct category
{
echo ‘
• ID) . ‘”>’ . $post->post_title . ‘

‘, “\n”;
}
}
echo ‘

‘, “\n\n”;
}
?>