Implementing the Time Ago

Hello Forum,

I have a website:
https://happeningnownews.com

I want to implement the time ago functionality on my website but its not working.
I have used 2 plugins, i have added the code

add_filter(‘the_time’, ‘dynamictime’);
function dynamictime() {
global $post;
$date = $post->post_date;
$time = get_post_time(‘G’, true, $post);
$mytime = time() – $time;
if($mytime > 0 && $mytime < 7*24*60*60)
$mytimestamp = sprintf(__(‘%s ago’), human_time_diff($time));
else
$mytimestamp = date(get_option(‘date_format’), strtotime($date));
return $mytimestamp;
}

to the very end of my theme file function.php but nothing seems to be working.

Can I get a fix to this please?

Regards

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

I used the code:
<?php echo human_time_diff( get_the_time(‘U’, $this->post->ID), current_time(‘timestamp’) ). ‘ ago’; ?>

on the modules and it seems to be working but for post older than 7 days, its still showing months and even years ago.

I have tried using the strtotime() function on it but there was nothing returned.

How can I only show the time ago if the post is not older than 7 days?

Hello,

I noticed that the function “$this->get_date()” returns a lot of CSS and HTML like this:
“<span class=”td-post-date”><time class=”entry-date updated td-module-date” datetime=”2018-12-14T17:33:41+00:00″ >14th Dec. 2018 @ 05:33 pm</time></span>”

which made the function strtotime( $this->get_date() ) fail.

The Solution.
Using the function “get_the_time(‘U’, $this->post->ID)”, I was able to get the timestamp of the post and using the code below, i was able to achieve the question I asked.

<?php echo ( get_the_time(‘U’, $this->post->ID) > strtotime( “5 days ago” ))? human_time_diff( get_the_time(‘U’, $this->post->ID), current_time(‘timestamp’) ). ‘ ago’ : $this->get_date(); ?>

for post less than 5 days ago, it will display the “ago”, while if the post is more than 5 days ago, it will display the date

Try and see if it works for you.