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1. koyder
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hello everyone!
   I'd like to display post date outside the Loop. The only way I've been able to do that is with $post->post_date. However, it displays date in the following format: 2009-05-12 23:51:49, and I'd like to use a custom one (j M Y). How could I achieve that?

   Here's what it looks like on my site (I'm using a modified Smart Archives plugin): http://superpospolita.pl/archiwum/

   Any help would be greatly appreciated!

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time

3. koyder
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   That seems to work only with the_date() and the_time(), which I can't use outside the Loop. But I've found a solution:

   mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date);

4. Alkorr
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hi koyder, thanks for sharing!

   But where do you exactly put mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date); to make it work properly? I do an echo on post_date to show the date but when I place mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date); into my code, it doesn't work...

   Thanks a lot for your help!

5. ricardonunez
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hi there,

   I am trying to do exactly the same thing but it does not seem to work.

   My code:

   echo "<li><a href=\"".get_permalink()."\">$post_title</a> - $post->post_date; ?></li>";

   What I get:

   “The title” - 2008-10-24 10:22:18

   What I want:

   “The title” - October 24, 2008

   If I change the code to:

   echo "<li><a href=\"".get_permalink()."\">$post_title</a> - mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date);</li>";

   I get:

   “The title” - mysql2date('j M Y', 2008-10-24 10:22:18);

   Thanks in advance for the help

6. neologan
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   you haven't wrapped the code, it's just plain text at the moment

   mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date);

   see?

   try:

   . mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date) .

7. cheezepie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   I'm having the same problem...

   I'm trying to output:

   <li><a>Title</a> April 12, 2010</li>

   But when I use the code in neologan's example above I get:

   <li><a>Title</a> </li>

   Here's my code:

   '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($post["ID"]) . '" title="Read more of '.$post["post_title"].'" >' . $post["post_title"].'</a> '.$post["post_date"].' </li> '

8. cheezepie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Sorry, missed out the code including neologan's exmaple in my post above. The code including neologan's example looks like this:

   '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($post["ID"]) . '" title="Read more of '.$post["post_title"].'" >' . $post["post_title"].'</a> '. mysql2date('j M Y', $post->post_date) .' </li> '

   But outputs:

   <li><a>Title</a> </li>

   I'm trying to get:

   <li><a>Title</a> April 12, 2010</li>

9. ian92484
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   try this:

   . mysql2date('M j Y', $post["post_date"]) .

10. cheezepie
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    @ian92484

    That works perfectly! Thanks.

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