Title: [Plugin: Advanced Most Recent Posts] Display post's date
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Advanced Most Recent Posts] Display post's date

 *  [Giorgos Sarigiannidis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gsarig/)
 * (@gsarig)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-most-recent-posts-display-posts-date/)
 * Hello,
 * I use the Advanced Most Recent Posts plugin and I was wondering if I could display
   each post’s date (and preferably time as well).
 * Based on [this discussion](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-most-recent-posts-displaying-author?replies=3)
   I tried
    `$excerpt = ': ' . $excerpt . ' ' . get_the_date();` on line 198 of 
   the .php file.
 * Unfortunately, it didn’t display the publication date of each post but instead,
   it keeps repeating one particular date (which happens to be the date I created
   the WP blog).
 * Any ideas about how I could get the post’s date / time displayed in my list?
 * Thank you in advance

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 *  [brucehere365](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brucehere365/)
 * (@brucehere365)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-most-recent-posts-display-posts-date/#post-1626573)
 * I’m also looking for this…
 * If anyone could help out that’d be great.
 *  [Kailey (trepmal)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trepmal/)
 * (@trepmal)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-most-recent-posts-display-posts-date/#post-1626587)
 * Yup, you can try something like this, just edit it as needed:
 *     ```
       $time = date('m/d/y',strtotime($post->post_date));
       $excerpt = ' (' . $time . '): ' . $excerpt;
       ```
   
 *  [QueenNola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/queennola/)
 * (@queennola)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-most-recent-posts-display-posts-date/#post-1626621)
 * If you want to do it without using a plugin but within a template for example
   you can do it this way:
 * in the template file:
 *     ```
       <?php
        $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=3&order=DESC&orderby=date');
        foreach ($postslist as $post) :
           setup_postdata($post);
        ?>
        <div class="entry">
        <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
        <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
        </div>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
       ```
   
 * Just change the number of posts of 3 to how ever you want.
 * and in the functions file to reduce the excerpt length limit from the default
   of 55
 *     ```
       add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
       function my_excerpt_length($length) {
       return 20; }
       ```
   
 * just change the number 20 to what you want, I used 20.

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 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [QueenNola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/queennola/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-most-recent-posts-display-posts-date/#post-1626621)
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