Query posts published after a certain date in Wordpress

I'm trying to write a `WP_Query` where I'm calling only posts that have been posted after march 2012. I can successfully call posts that are just in March 2012, but struggling to do 'from March 2012 onwards'.

$current_year = date('2012');
$current_month = date('>3'); // This doesn't work
$current_month = date('3'); // This DOES work

$custom_query = new WP_Query("year=$current_year&monthnum=$current_month&order=ASC&posts_per_page=-1");

Am I missing something simple, or does this have to get more complicated?

The "Time Parameters" section in

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has a note about date ranges. Using the same technique:

$query_string = "order=ASC&posts_per_page=-1";

// Create a new filtering function that will add our where clause to the query
function filter_where( $where = '' ) {
$where .= " AND post_date >= '2012-03-01'";
return $where;
}

add_filter( 'posts_where', 'filter_where' );
$custom_query = new WP_Query( $query_string );
remove_filter( 'posts_where', 'filter_where' );

Since WordPress version 3.7, there's the WP_Query argument [`date_query`][1] that works perfectly for this type of query.

[As you can see in the Codex][1], you can specify a date query with the `after` argument. The `after` can either be a strtotime()-compatible string, or an array of 'year', 'month', 'day' values.

For your example, something like the following should work:

$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'date_query' => array(
'after' => array(
'year' => 2012,
'month' => 3,
'day' => 1,
),
),
);
$custom_query = new WP_Query( $args );

Or with a strtotime()-string:

$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'date_query' => array( 'after' => '2012-03-01' ),
);
$custom_query = new WP_Query( $args );

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