Hide template based content until a specified date in ExpressionEngine Jul 14. 11
Sometimes it’s desirable to hide content on your website from users a specified date. With ExpressionEngine we already have built in functionality to do this with weblog/channel entries. If you want to achieve a similar effect for blocks of template code then you can simply combine the conditional and date tags as follows:
{if {current_time format="%Y%m%d"} >= "20110717"}...{/if}
Initially I thought I might need a plug-in to achieve the desired result but it was great to discover I could do just what I wanted out of the box. :)
Update: As pointed out by Philip there are some issues with this approach so tread carefully people, I’ve only tested this concept in a scenario where the current date falls within the same month/year etc.
Update: As suggested by Philip I’ve updated the code sample above to reverse the date format to Ymd, this ‘should’ prevent any issues as Ymd will always increment whereas dmY will not.
