Help needed with php within php code

Try changing this echo '<?php the_time('F, Y') ?>'; to this echo the_time('F, Y');

Fantastic, works perfectly! Thanks for that.

I don’t suppose you know if its possible for WordPress to echo a date range? For example, rather than have the above code echo ‘new this week’, is there code that will enable it to echo ‘posts from 10-17 November’ and then on the next day automatically change to echo ‘posts from 11-18 November’ and so on?

Thanks for your help.

Did you mean, only show Posts from 10-17 November?
Look at the time parameters of WP_Query.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/WP_Query#Time_Parameters

There is a PHP inconsistency in your code. Either you’re IN PHP script mode or your are outside (HTML mode). Change echo '<?php the_time('F, Y') ?>'; to just the_time('F, Y');

@keesiemeijer:
The function the_time() will output the time of the post. Nothing to echo in this case.

@knut Sparhell

So i don’t need the echo, just the_time('F, Y'); ? It appears to work either way.

@keesiemeijer

No i don’t want it to display posts from a date range as i already have that in the code that follows. Its just an h1 tag on the sidebar and i would like it to automatically echo the time period that the posts are showing, which in this case is for the last 7 days. So if today was November 17th it would simply echo ‘posts from November 10-17’. Then tomorrow it would echo ‘posts from November 11-18’ and so on. Is this possible?

Thanks to both of you for your help.

Try it with this:

<?php
echo date('d'); // today
echo date('d', strtotime('-1 week')); // today minus 7 days
?>

https://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
https://www.the-art-of-web.com/php/strtotime/

echo the_time() will output exactly the same as the_time()

Point is, you have an extra <?php inside a php block. This will give an error.

something like this:

<?php
$this_month = date('F');
$this_month_minus_seven_days = date('F', strtotime('-1 week'));
// check if today minus 7 days is the same month
if($this_month != $this_month_minus_seven_days) {
echo 'posts from '. date('F d', strtotime('-1 week')).' - '. date('F d');
} else {
echo 'posts from '. date('F d', strtotime('-1 week')).' - '.date('d');
}
?>

Awesome!

Much appreciated.

You’re welcome. Glad you got it resolved.