Display each taxonomy term post under a Year and Month heading - php

Question

I have a CPT - 'newsletters' and Taxonomy 'newsletter-groups'
I'm trying to display each post under it's respective term heading with all that terms posts displayed under it showing the Month and Year they were posted (by Postdate).
I thought I had something working , but noticed during testing that if a post had the same 'Month' it would wipe out the year and month for other posts in the same term and also for the terms below it , I have some images to show what I mean and the code I'm using so far.
In the images shown I've appended the post date to the filename for clarity , it would normally be just the filename.
Not Working if post date month is the same
Working if post date month is different
How can I solve this ? do I need to get all the post dates with a separate query and save that ?
Any examples appreciated
/*
* Custom Template: Archive Newsletters
*/
// Remove stuff
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
// Add our custom loop
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'newsletter_archive_loop' );
function newsletter_archive_loop() {
//fetch the terms for the newsletter-groups taxonomy
$terms = get_terms( 'newsletter-groups', array (
'hide_empty' => 'true',
'exclude' => 67, //excluding parent term ID 'school-newsletters' - only want to show term children of 'school-newsletters'
));
// run a query for each term
foreach( $terms as $term ) {
// Define the query
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'newsletters',
'newsletter-groups' => $term->slug ,
'posts_per_page' => -1,
);
// run the query
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
if( $query->have_posts() ) {
echo '<div class="letters">';
// output the term name in a heading tag
echo'<h4 class="term-heading">' . $term->name . '</h4>';
while ( $query->have_posts() ) { $query->the_post();
// get current month
$current_month = get_the_date('F');
// get attachements from custom field
$attachment_id = get_field('newsletter_upload');
$url = wp_get_attachment_url( $attachment_id );
$title = get_the_title( $attachment_id );
// get the filesize
$filesize = filesize( get_attached_file( $attachment_id ) );
$filesize = size_format($filesize, 2);
if( $query->current_post === 0 ) {
echo '<h4 class="date">';
the_date( 'F Y' );
echo '</h4>';
} else {
$f = $query->current_post - 1;
$old_date = mysql2date( 'F', $query->posts[$f]->post_date );
if($current_month != $old_date) {
echo '<h4 class="date">';
the_date( 'F Y' );;
echo '</h4>';
}
} ?>
<li class="letters-file">
<?php the_title(); ?><span class="letters-file-sz"> (<?php echo $filesize; ?>)</span>
</li>
<?php } // endwhile have posts
echo '</div>'; // close letters div
// use reset postdata to restore orginal query
wp_reset_postdata();
} // end if query have posts
} // end for each
} // end function
genesis(); // call genesis framework
Remove if and else both conditions and try to print only echo ''; the_date( 'F Y' ); echo ''
it will only show the individual post dates - But not grouped
EXPECTED OUTPUT

Answer 1

You can push each month in an array and check if the month is already in the array then do not display repeat month.
/*
* Custom Template: Archive Newsletters
*/
// Remove stuff
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
// Add our custom loop
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'newsletter_archive_loop' );
function newsletter_archive_loop() {
//fetch the terms for the newsletter-groups taxonomy
$terms = get_terms( 'newsletter-groups', array (
'hide_empty' => 'true',
'exclude' => 67, //excluding parent term ID 'school-newsletters' - only want to show term children of 'school-newsletters'
));
// run a query for each term
foreach( $terms as $term ) {
$dates = array();
// Define the query
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'newsletters',
'newsletter-groups' => $term->slug ,
'posts_per_page' => -1,
);
// run the query
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
if( $query->have_posts() ) {
echo '<div class="letters">';
// output the term name in a heading tag
echo'<h4 class="term-heading">' . $term->name . '</h4>';
while ( $query->have_posts() ) { $query->the_post();
// get current month
$current_month = get_the_date('F');
// get attachements from custom field
$attachment_id = get_field('newsletter_upload');
$url = wp_get_attachment_url( $attachment_id );
$title = get_the_title( $attachment_id );
// get the filesize
$filesize = filesize( get_attached_file( $attachment_id ) );
$filesize = size_format($filesize, 2);
if( !in_array(get_the_date( 'F Y' ), $dates ) ){
$dates[] = get_the_date( 'F Y' );
echo '<h4 class="date">';
echo get_the_date( 'F Y' );
echo '</h4>';
}
?>
<li class="letters-file">
<?php the_title(); ?><span class="letters-file-sz"> (<?php echo $filesize; ?>)</span>
</li>
<?php } // endwhile have posts
echo '</div>'; // close letters div
// use reset postdata to restore orginal query
wp_reset_postdata();
} // end if query have posts
} // end for each
} // end function
genesis(); // call genesis framework