Title: Feature Request — Specify Post Date Format
Last modified: October 16, 2017

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# Feature Request — Specify Post Date Format

 *  Resolved [Chuck Miller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckmi11er/)
 * (@chuckmi11er)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-change-post-date-format/)
 * Hi, Martin! Great plugin you’ve created. It does pretty much everything I need(
   with some custom css styling I added to match it to my site design), but I would
   like to make a feature request. I use the longer date format F, d, Y on posts
   which works great. However, with the limited amount of space in the sidebar, 
   I’m finding that some post dates are long enough that they end up wrapping to
   the next line on some screen sizes. What I would like is to be able to specify
   the shorter M, d, Y date format for the widget. Is that a feature that you could
   add in an update? I’ve come up empty trying to use css to change it and no one
   seems to have a solution online.
 * Thanks for your consideration!
 * Chuck
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by [Chuck Miller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckmi11er/).
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by [Chuck Miller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckmi11er/).

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/)
 * (@hinjiriyo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-change-post-date-format/#post-9590863)
 * Try the spin-off plugin [Ultimate Post List](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-post-list/).
   There you can rebuild the widget with a few clicks and have over 100 date formats.
 *  Thread Starter [Chuck Miller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckmi11er/)
 * (@chuckmi11er)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-change-post-date-format/#post-9591230)
 * I tried it, but I keep getting the error message, “Invalid post type.” then the
   plugin deactivates itself.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/)
 * (@hinjiriyo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-change-post-date-format/#post-9592760)
 * When did that occur? Did you try to create a new list?
 *  Thread Starter [Chuck Miller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckmi11er/)
 * (@chuckmi11er)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-change-post-date-format/#post-9592776)
 * Just today after you pointed me to the plugin I installed it and tried. When 
   it was activated, I tried to open the settings and I got an error message something
   to the effect that there were no compatible posts and it deactivated itself. 
   After that I couldn’t activate it again.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Martin Stehle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinjiriyo/)
 * (@hinjiriyo)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-change-post-date-format/#post-9593967)
 * I could not reconstruct that error. There will be no date format option in the
   widget. So I recommend to decrease the font size of the date to prevent line 
   breaks.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-change-post-date-format/#post-9593967)
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