Is there a code/setting to insert post publication date?

  • Resolved Mugsy

    (@mugsy)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    (Pardon me if this isn’t the right place for this, but it involves editing the code.)

    My blog posts don’t display the date they were published on. Is there a code I can insert in my CSS/html to automatically display the publication date? Right now, the only way to know the date of a post is to look at its URL.

    I created an html “template” that I reuse with every new post. And while I could manually insert the publication date, it would look much better if there was a way to automatically display a post’s publication date just below the Title.

    I can edit the site’s code (I edited the theme extensively) to include the publication date beneath each post title if I knew what that code/command was (if there even is one.)

    Thx.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    – Your currently used theme is not in the ww.wp.xz.cn/themes/ directory:
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/themes/search/emerald-stretch/
    – If this was a custom theme, you may have to go back to your developer team and ask them to make the necessary change(s) to the theme.
    – For pro or commercial product support please contact the author directly on their site.
    – As the author is aware, commercial products are not supported in these forums. As you are their customer I am sure they will have no problem supporting you there.

    Thread Starter Mugsy

    (@mugsy)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    The original theme was downloaded (for free) from the ww.wp.xz.cn themes page nearly a decade ago and has been modified extensively since then by me.

    All I request is information regarding a possible code for “Publication Date”.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by Mugsy.
    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    You need to modify the template responsible for output. The function you want is the_date(). As long as it’s used within a standard loop, it will output the current post’s published date. Just be sure it’s not only in the loop, but also within a <?php ?> code block.

    Thread Starter Mugsy

    (@mugsy)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Fantastic! Works like a charm.

    I only had to edit the “single.php” & “index.php” files to insert the “the_date()” code below “the_title()”. Looks great (which you can check out at my link.)

    Thx.

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