Posted 10 months ago #
Hello,
I'm having a little problem trying to rewrite/reformat the year in my archives.
For now it's listing like January 2009
and I d'like to display it like January '09
Moreover, is it possible to add a separate symbol between every months like : December '09 / January '09 / .....
Big big thanks if you can help.
M.
Here's one way to to do it. Replace wp_get_archives() with the following:
echo preg_replace(
'#(' . implode('|', array_values($GLOBALS['wp_locale']->month)) . ')\s\d{2}(\d{2})#',
'$1 ’$2 /',
wp_get_archives('echo=0')
);
Posted 10 months ago #
Hello, huge thanks to you, you made my day man, can I ask something more so that I learn ?
Can you maybe explain me what you did because that code seems so strange to me...
Usually I understand the common wp php syntaxes but I gotta say I'm kinda stuck and it's always nice to know.
Thank you!
implode('|', array_values($GLOBALS['wp_locale']->month))
That basically makes a string of all the months, like so:
January|February|March...
preg_replace is a function that looks for a pattern---called a "regular expression"---and replaces it with something else. In this case, it looks for a month pattern (from that string above) followed by a four-digit number (presumably a year) and then replaces it with the month followed by the right single quote and the last two digits of the year.
In wp_get_archives('echo=0') the echo=0 argument basically just tells wp_get_archives to return its string instead of printing it; that way we can use it in preg_replace.
Posted 3 months ago #
Hello,
how would I go about changing the month to the abbreviated form in this rewrite in my archives.
I'd like to display it like Jan '09
I just don't know what I'm missing. Help would be really appreciated.
J.
Posted 3 months ago #
I just made a post on my blog about how to edit date formatting for wp_get_archives. Should answer your question, lightback. It involves going into wp-includes which isn't ideal due to WP updates, but it's probably less "messy" than the theme alternatives. Hope this helps!
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