Display published date using shortcode?

Hi John,

You can tap into the simple_links_link_output filter to append the date.
If you add the following to your active theme’s functions.php file, it should do what you want:

add_filter( 'simple_links_link_output', 'sl_add_date' );
function sl_add_date( $output ){
	return str_replace( '</a>', ' ' . get_the_date() . '</a>', $output );
}

Hope this helps!

Hi Mat,

Thanks for this tip! However, it seems like the date that’s being retrieved from get_the_date is the date of the page the links are appearing on and not the links themselves.

I got this working by modifying the code you provided to look more like this:

add_filter( 'simple_links_link_output', 'sl_add_date' 10, 3);
function sl_add_date( $output, $meta, $link ){
        $sl_date = mysql2date ('F j, Y', $link->post_date);
	return str_replace( '</a>', ' ' . $sl_date . '</a>', $output );
}

This is working great, but if you have other ideas for how to do this more elegantly I would be all ears.

Thanks!
John