Something I had setup in Conversant and missed in Wordpress is the “Last year” listing, which has now been added to the sidebar on this site. Briefly shows 5 topics on the blog from one year ago at this time. This is actually my first WordPress coding, so I don’t know if it’s a bit sloppy, but here’s how I got it to work…
<h3>Last year</h3>
<ul>
<?php
$year = date('Y');
$month = date('m');
$lastyear = $year - 1;
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&year=$lastyear');
global $wpdb;
$posts = $wpdb->get_results ("SELECT " .
"* " .
"FROM $wpdb->posts " .
"WHERE ( TO_DAYS( NOW() ) - TO_DAYS( post_date ) ) > 364 " .
"ORDER BY post_date DESC " .
"LIMIT 5" );
?>
<?php
foreach($posts as $post):
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach
?>
</ul>
