<?php
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'posts_per_page' => ($atts['number'] > 0) ? $atts['number'] : get_option('posts_per_page')
);
if ($atts['cat'] != ''){
    if($atts['parent'])
        $args['cat'] = $atts['cat'];
    else
        $args['category__in'] = explode(',', $atts['cat']);
}
if ($atts['post_in'] != '')
    $args['post__in'] = explode(',', $atts['post_in']);
$args['paged'] = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$the_query = new Wp_Query($args);

$start_timeline = 0;
rit_get_the_previous_post_date(get_the_ID());

?>
    <div class="rit-blog-timeline-layout">
        <?php
        if ($the_query->have_posts()):
            while ($the_query->have_posts()): $the_query->the_post();
                global $prev_post_year, $prev_post_month, $post_count;

                $post_month = get_the_date('n');
                $post_year = get_the_date('o');
                $current_date = get_the_date('o-n');
                ?>
                <?php if ($prev_post_month != $post_month || ($prev_post_month == $post_month && $prev_post_year != $post_year) || $start_timeline == 0) :  ?>
                    <?php
                    $post_count = 1;
                    $start_timeline = 1;
                    ?>
                    <div class="clear"></div>
                    <div class="timeline-date"><h3><?php echo get_the_date('F Y'); ?></h3></div>
                <?php endif;
                $classes = 'timeline-box ';
                $classes .= ($post_count % 2 == 1 ? 'left' : 'right');
                ?>
                <article class="rit-news-item col-xs-12 col-sm-6 <?php echo esc_attr($classes) ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
                    <?php echo rit_get_template_part('post-format/post', 'default', array('atts' => $atts)) ?>
                    <div class="rit-news-info">
                        <h3 class="title-news"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"
                                                  title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

                        <p class="info-post"><a class="author-link"
                                                href="<?php echo esc_url(get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta('ID'))); ?>"
                                                rel="author">
                                <?php echo(get_the_author()); ?>
                            </a> / <?php echo get_the_date('F jS, Y'); ?>
                            /  <?php comments_number('0 Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></p>

                        <div class="description"><?php  if($atts['output_type']!='no'){
                                if($atts['output_type']=='excerpt'){
                                    echo rit_excerpt($atts['excerpt_lenght']);
                                }
                                else{
                                    the_content();
                                }
                            }  ?></div>
                    </div>
                </article>
                <?php
                $prev_post_year = $post_year;
                $prev_post_month = $post_month;
                $post_count++;
            endwhile;
            if (function_exists("rit_pagination")) :
                rit_pagination( 3, $the_query);
            endif;
        endif;?>
    </div>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>