How do I format my shortcode date?

  • Resolved Grant-Senior

    (@grant-senior)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hello, I’ve got the code below working ok (I need to extract the date the post was posted to go inside the content of the post with a shortcode), but it’s displaying the clock time as well eg, 2014-02-01 01:24:27 I would like it to display it like, Feb 1 2014. Can anybody tell me how I get this please? This is the shortcode that goes in the Post [mm-insert-date]

    Cheers

    //shortcode function in Theme functions.php

    function mm_insert_date_func($atts) {
    // Insert the post date, with optional before and after strings.
    // [mm-insert-date before='<h3>’ after='</h3>’]
    global $post;
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(‘before’ => ”, ‘after’ => ” ), $atts));

    $output = “{$before}{$post->post_date}{$after}”;

    return $output;
    }
    add_shortcode(‘mm-insert-date’, ‘mm_insert_date_func’);

    Here’s a link to where you’ll see it in action
    https://www.thewebsitedeveloper.co.nz/tempProject/nzca-wordpress/adverts-embedded-in-post-idea/

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  • Try replacing this:

    $output = "{$before}{$post->post_date}{$after}";

    with this:

    $output = "{$before}" . date('M j Y', strtotime($post->post_date)) . {$after}";
    Thread Starter Grant-Senior

    (@grant-senior)

    Hey thanks for putting your attention on this but that didn’t work, it generates the following to the page –
    date(‘M j Y’, strtotime(2014-02-01 01:24:27)).

    Sounds like you got some extra quotes in there somewhere. Please post the code you are using.

    Thread Starter Grant-Senior

    (@grant-senior)

    Here’s my function in functions.php with your line, mine commented out

    function mm_insert_date_func($atts) {

       global $post;
       extract(shortcode_atts(array('before' => '', 'after' => '' ), $atts));  

    //$output = "{$before}{$post->post_date}{$after}";
    $output = "{$before} . date('M j Y', strtotime($post->post_date)) . {$after}";    

       return $output;
    }
    add_shortcode('mm-insert-date', 'mm_insert_date_func');

    [Moderator Note: Please post code & markup between backticks or use the code button. Your posted code may now have been permanently damaged by the forum’s parser.]

    Sorry about that! Try this instead:

    $output = $before . date('M j Y', strtotime($post->post_date)) . $after;
    Thread Starter Grant-Senior

    (@grant-senior)

    That did the trick.
    Thank you for your help!

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    Thread Starter Grant-Senior

    (@grant-senior)

    Done. Thanks again.

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