Hi !
This article is a friendly reminder for those like me, who can’t remember which wordpress function is used when.
Like the article title says is about the_date and the_time , because I wanted to make a post date look something like this:displaying the date on two rows. Like any “partially educated” web developer I wanted to achieve this by using the_date function with different parameters, like this:
<div class="post-date"> <div class="month"><?php the_date(M) ?></div> <div class="day"><?php the_date(d) ?></div> </div>
and then I discovered that it doesn’t work like I wanted to; the problem is that the second instance of the_date doesn’t work, is returning nothing, therefor just the month, no day … no good.
Lucky for me, I didn’t overload my brain too much trying to understand why is not working, and I gave another try, this time with the_time function, and … voilĂ ! , worked like a charm.
<div class="post-date"> <div class="month"><?php the_time(M) ?></div> <div class="day"><?php the_time(d) ?></div> </div>
So keep in mind !
Leave a Reply