Title: Displayed Date Format
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Displayed Date Format

 *  Resolved [Kggg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kggg/)
 * (@kggg)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displayed-date-format/)
 * Is it possible to display the abbreviation of the month – Jun, Jul, Aug, Sept
   followed by the date and year- i.e. Jul 6, 2015
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 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displayed-date-format/#post-6267872)
 * I think I will need to look at giving users a way to enter a generic PHP date
   format for this to be more flexible. I will try to get to this in July. Very 
   busy over the next few weeks.
 *  Thread Starter [Kggg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kggg/)
 * (@kggg)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displayed-date-format/#post-6267967)
 * Hi Yannick,
 * Thank you for a great plugin!
    Have you given any more consideration to allowing
   different php date format?
 * We would like to use abbreviated month followed by the date and year i.e. Jul
   6, 2015
 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displayed-date-format/#post-6267968)
 * I have thought about supporting any PHP date format string, but that would only
   work well with the front-end display, since the back-end calendar format would
   be different.
 * That being said, I will what I can put together in the next few days to support
   this.
 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displayed-date-format/#post-6267969)
 * I have just pushed out a new release to support this, version 1.3. It adds two
   new options for date format configuration. The first option is to use the date
   format specified in the WordPress General Options section. The second one is 
   to set a custom date formatting string in a new field.
 * In the back-end, the date format is now always the same, no matter what you set
   as the date format for the widget.
 * Please update to the latest version and confirm that this lets you set the dates
   as desired.
 * Please consider donating to support this plugin’s development.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displayed-date-format/#post-6267969)
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