Title: Better Datelines
Author: Rinat
Published: <strong>February 19, 2014</strong>
Last modified: February 19, 2014

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# Better Datelines

 By [Rinat](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rinatkhaziev/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/better-datelines.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-datelines/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-datelines/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-datelines/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-datelines/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-datelines/)

## Description

A dateline is a brief piece of text included in news articles that describes where
and when the story occurred, or was written or filed, though the date is often omitted.
This plugin gives you ability to store datelines as a meta field so you don’t have
to include them in your post body.

You can use either [better-dateline] shortcode to insert dateline manually or automatically
prepend post content with a dateline. (See Frequently Asked Questions)

If you’d like to check out the code and contribute, [join us on GitHub](https://github.com/rinatkhaziev/better-datelines/).
Pull requests, issues, and plugin recommendations are more than welcome!

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Screenshot of edit post screen with a dateline
 * [[
 * Screenshot of a post with a dateline

## Installation

 1. Upload the `better-datelines` folder to your plugins directory (e.g. `/wp-content/
    plugins/`).
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. You’ll see a dateline textarea on post edit screen.

## FAQ

#### How do I enable automatic prepending of dateline to the post content?

Put add_filter( ‘better_datelines_prepend_the_content’, ‘__return_true’ ); to your
theme’s functions.php

#### How do I change the format of automatically prepended dateline?

There’s another filter for that: ‘better_datelines_formatted_content’, filter accepts
3 arguments, so to add a filter add_filter( ‘better_datelines_formatted_content’,‘
my_better_datelines_formatted_content’, 10, 3); function my_better_datelines_formatted_content(
$formatted_content, $dateline, $original_content ) { // Do something

    ```
        return $formatted_content; } 
    ```

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Better Datelines” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Rinat ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rinatkhaziev/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/better-datelines/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/better-datelines/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/better-datelines/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/better-datelines/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.1

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.7.41**
 * Tags
 * [content](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content/)[editorial](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/editorial/)
   [excerpt](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/excerpt/)[news](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/news/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-datelines/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Rinat ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rinatkhaziev/)

## Support

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