Title: Sidebar Issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Sidebar Issues

 *  [revlimiter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/revlimiter/)
 * (@revlimiter)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-date-issue/)
 * Hey everyone,
 * On my website’s blog: [http://www.kimstewart.ca/blog/](http://www.kimstewart.ca/blog/)
   
   I am trying to get my “Recent Entries” on my sidebar to show the dates in this
   way so that they line up nicely:
 *     ```
       10.28
       09.21
       09.20
       09.10
       etc..
       ```
   
 * Also, I would love to be able to have a maximum character count on the Recent
   Entry links so that a “…” could appear in the links that are too wide for the
   design. Hope this makes sense!
 * Here is my code in sidebar.php:
 *     ```
       <div id="sidebar">
       	<ul class="sidebar_list">
   
       		<?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar()) : ?>
   
       		<li class="widget">
       			<h2>Recent Entries: <a href="/feed/"><img src="/img/gbl/rss.gif" alt="Subscribe to RSS" title="Subscribe to RSS" border="0" class="rss" /></a></h2>
       			<ul class="sidebar">
       				<?php query_posts('showposts=10'); ?>
       				<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       <li><span class="recent_date"> <?php the_time('n.j') ?> <a>"><?php the_title() ?></a></span></li>
       				<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
   
                <li id="search">
                  <h2><?php _e('Search:'); ?></h2>
                  <form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>">
                   <div>
                       <input type="text" name="s" id="s" class="text_input_small" />
                       <input name="submit" id="submit" type="image" class="submit_btn" src="/img/gbl/empty.gif" title="Submit" alt="Submit" value="<?php _e('Search'); ?>" />
                   </div>
                   </form>
   
       		<?php if (function_exists('get_flickrrss')) { ?>
       				<li class="widget">
       			<h2><span class="flickr_blue">Flick</span><span class="flickr_pink">r</span></h2>
       			<ul class="flickr_stream">
       				<?php get_flickrrss(); ?>
   
       		<?php } ?>
       		<?php endif; ?>
   
       </div>
       ```
   

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 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-date-issue/#post-867142)
 * Date and time:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time](http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time)
   
   [http://us2.php.net/date](http://us2.php.net/date)
 * > Also, I would love to be able to have a maximum character count on the Recent
   > Entry links so that a “…” could appear in the links that are too wide for the
   > design.
 * You can do this sort of thing with [php substr_replace](http://www.tizag.com/phpT/php-string-substr_replace.php).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-date-issue/#post-867142)
 * Status: not resolved

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