Title: Adding post date to recent-post plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Adding post date to recent-post plugin

 *  Resolved [daisyhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisyhead/)
 * (@daisyhead)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-date-to-recent-post-plugin/)
 * I am using the [recent-post plugin](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/recent-posts/branches/wp-1.5/)
   and would like to add the date of each post prior to the link for the entry. 
   I have tried tweaking the code on my own but no luck. Could anyone offer any 
   help?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [daisyhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisyhead/)
 * (@daisyhead)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-date-to-recent-post-plugin/#post-445711)
 * As an FYI, here’s what I tried to do but I’ve been unable to get the date to 
   pull for each entry. My additions are in bold:
 * ` foreach ($posts as $post) {
    <b>$post_date = ($post_date);</b> $post_title 
   = stripslashes($post->post_title); $permalink = get_permalink($post->ID); $output.
   = $before . '<b>. $post_date .</b> <a href="' . $permalink . '" rel="bookmark"
   title="Permanent Link: ' . htmlspecialchars($post_title, ENT_COMPAT) . '">' .
   htmlspecialchars($post_title) . '</a>'; if($show_excerpts) { $post_excerpt = 
   stripslashes($post->post_excerpt); $output.= '' . $post_excerpt; } $output .=
   $after;
 *  Thread Starter [daisyhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisyhead/)
 * (@daisyhead)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-date-to-recent-post-plugin/#post-445777)
 * Anyone?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-date-to-recent-post-plugin/#post-445782)
 * I am not familiar with that plugin.
    I am using this one: [http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/#customizablepostlistings](http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/#customizablepostlistings)
   and it has the ability to display date by default.
 *  Thread Starter [daisyhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisyhead/)
 * (@daisyhead)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-date-to-recent-post-plugin/#post-445848)
 * I’ve seen that other plugin but really didn’t want to change as I like the MtDewVirus
   one. I was thinking there had to be an easy way to modify the code I’m already
   using to do what I want it to do. I mean, all it has to do is pull the date of
   the post and display it.
 *  [katgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katgirl/)
 * (@katgirl)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-date-to-recent-post-plugin/#post-445857)
 * moshu’s suggestion is pretty neat, if you want a no fuss plugin that gives you
   exactly what you want: date _before_ the post title.
 * However, if you download (c2c) and check the coding of their pull for date line,
   you may see how they do it and then you might be able to intergrate (copy & paste)
   that section of code into your code?
 * I’ve learnt heaps from studying and copy&pasting code bits and pieces from templates,
   themes and plugins to get the right look and feel for what I want.
 * Gotta confess I don’t mind all that fiddling, either. _Sometimes_
 *  Thread Starter [daisyhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisyhead/)
 * (@daisyhead)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-date-to-recent-post-plugin/#post-445861)
 * Thanks for the suggestion Kat! I think I will download the other plugin and take
   a look at it. If it does what I need it to do with minimal tweaking or fuss, 
   then I suppose that’s the better way to go.
 * Normally I would take your advice and download the code and tweak the current
   plugin I have but I don’t have the time to do that right now. (Dang 3 year olds
   and their petty demands anyway!) 😉
 * Thanks again!
 *  [katgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katgirl/)
 * (@katgirl)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-date-to-recent-post-plugin/#post-445864)
 * I’m hearing you loud and clear 🙂 Mine are 15 (turns 16 soon) and 21. All over
   bar the hooray!
 *  Thread Starter [daisyhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisyhead/)
 * (@daisyhead)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-date-to-recent-post-plugin/#post-445890)
 * Well that plugin took a whole 3 minutes to upload and customize and I like it!
   Thanks for the info and the help Moshu and Kat!

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