Made a simple theme. Dates not showing up in index.php's blog feed.

I think that the index.php is mostly the cause here. It’s not in the functions.php and all posts should have dates, so nothing in the dashboard.

Do you have a copy of the site that we could have a look at? Maybe there’s an error in the HTML source somewhere.

You were spot on with suspecting that index.php was to blame. Editing that file ended up fixing everything. I found the issue being discussed on Stack Overflow, and the fix they suggested there ended up working.

The code I ended up using for date, that now shows up on every post, is:

<?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?>

Hello. I am a bit new to WP but I am great at picking up things, including PHP, which i know enough to stay away from or to copy and paste it somewhere, LOL. I just incorporated a blog into my existing website: https://gratzergraphics.com/blog/

The problem is that the “Leave a reply” from the 2012 theme puts that text above the post, which makes no sense. How could you comment before reading a post? If I move that to below the post, the text with the date disappears. I tried the fix mentioned above. I had put it in an h3 tag but it would not appear. Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

FYI: I know HTML and CSS well but don’t program in PHP.

OK. Of course, since i’ve been working on this issue for three days…now that I posted in this forum, I figured it out!