Title: Post Dates
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Post Dates

 *  [evjo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evjo/)
 * (@evjo)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/)
 * I would like to add the date the post published along with the post title. I 
   saw someone else posted about this topic and it was closed, but it doesn’t say
   whether it was resolved. Is adding the date possible yet?
 * (I figured out how to add a date, but it is showing the date the page was created
   and not the date the post was published.)
 * [http://domesticwhimsy.com/decor/](http://domesticwhimsy.com/decor/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-posts-to-pages/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-posts-to-pages/)

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 *  [digbymaass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digbymaass/)
 * (@digbymaass)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/#post-5035636)
 * Yes me too. A collection of posts with the same subject would benefit from having
   the date of posting.
 *  Plugin Author [Arsham Mirshah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arshammirshah/)
 * (@arshammirshah)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/#post-5035639)
 * Not possible yet but I’ve added it to my list of things to add to the plugin 
   moving forward 🙂
 *  [damjan_larics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damjan_larics/)
 * (@damjan_larics)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/#post-5035641)
 * +1 for this feature! Anyways, thanks for a really useful plugin 🙂
 *  [hisforhome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hisforhome/)
 * (@hisforhome)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/#post-5035652)
 * +2 for this feature! 🙂
 * I tried to use the instructions you gave on your website to set it up manually
   but my page showed blank.
 * A really helpful plugin – many thanks!
 *  [digbymaass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digbymaass/)
 * (@digbymaass)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/#post-5035654)
 * Can you post a link to those instructions please? I can’t find them.
 *  [hisforhome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hisforhome/)
 * (@hisforhome)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/#post-5035655)
 * Hi digbymaass, you can find instructions here:
 * [http://www.webmechanix.com/how-to-add-posts-to-pages-in-wordpress-tutorial/](http://www.webmechanix.com/how-to-add-posts-to-pages-in-wordpress-tutorial/)
 *  [digbymaass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digbymaass/)
 * (@digbymaass)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/#post-5035656)
 * Thanks, but I don’t see anything about adding the posting date there.
 * I’ve tried editing the plugin by adding a variable `$date = $post->post_date;`
   then outputting `$out .= ‘<div style=”entry_meta”> ‘ . $date. ‘</div>’;
 * We show dates of posting via a hook in functions.php using post_date.
    On actual
   posts it is in a nice format like June 4, 2014; whereas on a page made with the
   edited plugin it appears like this: 2014-06-04 23:25:45
 * Anyone have any idea how to make it look like it does on posts?
 *  [digbymaass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digbymaass/)
 * (@digbymaass)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/#post-5035657)
 * Think I’ve got it.
 *     ```
       $my_date = $post->post_date;
   
       	$out .= '<div>'.mysql2date('F j, Y', $my_date).'</div>';
       ```
   
 * ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’ // format in which date/time is stored in the wp database. F, j,
   and Y are from [http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time](http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time)
 *  [digbymaass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digbymaass/)
 * (@digbymaass)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/#post-5035658)
 * Though it would be much better if it picked up the formatting from the dashboard
   by `(get_option('date_format'))`, but I have been unable to make that work, as
   I have only the haziest understanding of php syntax.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-dates-2/#post-5035658)
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