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rjmccollam

I am using the Recent Posts Function from the Snippets section of CSS-Tricks, and it is working great, but how do I add the date into the mix?

The function:

function recent_posts($no_posts = 10, $excerpts = true) {

   global $wpdb;

   $request = "SELECT ID, post_title, post_excerpt FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type='post' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $no_posts";

   $posts = $wpdb->get_results($request);

   if($posts) {

               foreach ($posts as $posts) {
                       $post_title = stripslashes($posts->post_title);
                       $permalink = get_permalink($posts->ID);

                       $output .= '<div class="home-post"><h1>'  . htmlspecialchars($post_title) . '</a></h1>';

                       if($excerpts) {
                               $output.= '<p>' . stripslashes($posts->post_excerpt) . '</p>';
                       }

                       $output .= '<a class="read-more right" href="' . $permalink . '">Read More</a></div>';
               }

       } else {
               $output .= '<li>No posts found</li>';
       }

   echo $output;

Thanks

TheDoc

I'm not sure if this will work, but it'd be my first guess. I'm only posting the foreach section since it's the only thing relevant:

foreach ($posts as $posts) {
	$post_title = stripslashes($posts->post_title);
	$permalink = get_permalink($posts->ID);
	$thedate = get_the_date($posts->ID);	
	
	$output .= '<div class="home-post"><h1>'  . htmlspecialchars($post_title) . '</a></h1>';
	
	$output .='<p class="date">' . $thedate . '</p>';
	
	if($excerpts) {
		   $output.= '<p>' . stripslashes($posts->post_excerpt) . '</p>';
	}
	
	$output .= '<a class="read-more right" href="' . $permalink . '">Read More</a></div>';
}

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