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1. Co
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hello :)

   I would like to display the months in three digits.

   I.e. MAY - APR - SEP instead of having the whole month name displayed (in order to display it into a small graphic calendar).

   Is there a way to do it ? Has it already been done ? Does a reference exist for it ?

   Thank you very much in advance :)

2. maerk
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   http://php.net/date

   Is that any good? M is the code to make three-letter month codes. So you'd do something like

   the_date('M');

   It's case-sensitive though.

   WordPress has a calendar built in, you know. The template tag is <?php get_calendar(); ?>.

3. forceagainstsomething
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Go to the options menu, and then down to "Default date format", and change the value to 'M j, Y'. Minus the quotes of course.

4. Co
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Thank you very much :) The 'M' works perfectly !
   Have a wonderful week-wend.

5. maerk
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I'm glad it works for you :) If you wanted to make it all caps, you can use CSS, the rule is

   .whatever-selector-youre-using {
text-transform: uppercase; }

6. Co
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hello, it's me again :)

   I've just tried out the M trick with the french version of WordPress, but it doesn't seem to work as my June month (juin) appears entirely (4 digits).

   Any idea of what I may be doing wrong ?

   Thanks !

7. Co
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Well I did find the solution by myself. In fact WordPress is very intelligent ;) (more than myself, lol)

   The months june and july (respectively Juin et Juillet) do have the same first 3 digits. They need the 4th digit in order to establish a differenciation.

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