How Can I Add PHP Code For Date Variables Into A Post?

Not quite sure what you want. If you need the current date to always show in selected posts, you could use a shortcode. Add the function to your functions.php, and put the shortcode [current_date] in the posts.

<?php
function current_date_func() {
   // Usage: [current_date]
  return date('F, Y');
}
add_shortcode('current_date','current_date_func');
?>

Great!

can that work for just the current month? ie :

Updated – <php>current-month</php> (i obviously don’t know PHP : ) )

Thanks for your help,

Nick

Hi jase,
i think if you change return date(‘F, Y’); to
return date(‘M’);
it will return just the month.
David

return date('M'); will return the 3-letter abbreviation for the month.

return date('F'); will return the full month name.

In your post, put this:

Updated – [current_date]

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Thanks guys, you rock!

You are welcome!

Hi,

Don’t know if this will reopen the thread, but im just wondering how to add the year to the above solution. So right now I have:

Updated – [current_date]

which is coming out as:

Updated – March

but then I am having to change the year manually ( i know, once every year big deal hey : ) )

but still, what code would I put in, in order to get:

Updated – March, 2011

Thanks!