jonathan1138

Ah, I did spot that but thought I had replaced the quotes, evidently I missed some. Btw those were copied directly from here so I blame this website for quote misrepresentation! ??

Thanks, it’s working now.

I used one of the existing templates for my code, I’ve just been struggling with the date part. Here is my code:

<?php
/**
 * Shows date and title only.
 */

if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
	exit;
} // Exit if accessed directly

?>
<?php 

echo date(“Y-m-d”,$dlm_download->get_version()->get_date()->format( ‘U’ ));

?><a class="download-link" title="<?php if ( $dlm_download->get_version()->has_version_number() ) {
	printf( esc_html__( 'Version %s', 'download-monitor' ), esc_html( $dlm_download->get_version()->get_version_number() ) );
} ?>" href="<?php esc_url( $dlm_download->the_download_link() ); ?>" rel="nofollow">
	<?php $dlm_download->the_title(); ?>
</a>

I expect the date to be printed and then the filename (it will look prettier once I get the date part working). I don’t need a button, just a text link over the document name, that part is working fine. Using this template outputs nothing where the date should be, I have confirmed that this is the template in use by adding other echo parts after the date echo line.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by jonathan1138.

Thank you for your reply f2065, however I can’t get that code to work. While attempting to debug, I noted that the first echo outputs nothing, the second echo throws an error.

I have been scouring the documentation but can find no mention of
get_version()->get_date()
or any other method to get the date, only shortcode filters which is not useful to me I think.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by jonathan1138.

Thank you! add_query_arg() certainly put me on the right track.

FWIW I had to make use of the additional function shown on the get_query_var() for custom query vars, shown on this page (added to my functions.php).

My button link looks like this:
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( add_query_arg('category',$value) ); ?>"><?php echo $label; ?></a>

So I can then get the custom query var like this:
$sub_category = get_query_var( 'category' );

Arrrgh! Just looked at the code and saw the extra closing div sitting further down (was supposed to have been commented out). At least now I know this method works for an overlay image!