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1. dav1dr0well2
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Noobie question I suppose. I've got a custom page template (using Thesis) that is trying to grab recent posts:

   foreach($lastposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post);
       $post_id = $post->ID;
       $post_date = get_the_date($post_id);
       $post_title = get_the_title($post_id);
       $post_url = get_permalink($post_id);
       $post_excerpt = get_n_char_excerpt($GLOBALS['blogright_excerpt_length'], $post->post_content);
       ?>
               <li><span class="storydate"><?php echo $post_date ?></span><span class="storytitle"><a title="<?php echo $post_title ?>" rel="nofollow" href="<?php echo $post_url ?>"><?php echo $post_title ?></a></span></li>
       <?php
       if ($current_article_num < $article_count)
           $current_article_num++ ;
   endforeach;

   The "$post_title = get_the_title($post_id);" is returning a number (a post ID?). I want to format the date as "Month Day, Year".

   I tried using "post_date = get_the_date($post_id);" and it returns a date with *everything* (e.g. 2011-09-22 15:02:15).

   Any ideas on how I can get what I want: "Day Date, Year" format?

   Thanks in advance,

   David

2. dav1dr0well2
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Sorry... I contradicted myself at end of post... My goal for date of post format is Month Day, Year (e.g. "September 29, 2011")...

3. Oleg Dudkin
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   try
   get_the_date(); //without parameters
   and
   get_the_date('F j, Y');

4. dav1dr0well2
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Oleg:

   THANK YOU...

5. dav1dr0well2
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Formatting looks great Oleg. Now I've discovered one other nagging problem... all of my posts have the same date...

   I went digging around the WP codex and found info on the_date where it says:

   SPECIAL NOTE: When there are multiple posts on a page published under the SAME DAY, the_date() only displays the date for the first post (that is, the first instance of the_date()). To repeat the date for posts published under the same day, you should use the Template Tag the_time() or get_the_date() (since 3.0) with a date-specific format string.

   But I'm using get_the_date... but I'm still only getting a single date back...

   Thanks!

6. dav1dr0well2
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   After doing some testing I've discovered that the date that's being returned is the date I created the static page where I'm using the code (if that helps)...

   David

7. Oleg Dudkin
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   hmm..
   Try this
   date('F j, Y', strtotime( $post->post_date ) )

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