Title: format date entry
Last modified: May 9, 2018

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# format date entry

 *  [danielnichols](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielnichols/)
 * (@danielnichols)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/format-date-entry/)
 * I have a field called [thedate]
 * I’d like to format how it appears in the email.
 * [_format_thedate “l, jS F Y”]
 * This doesn’t work and just brings through the basic format.
 * Any help appreciated!

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