Need to extract month from custom date field

  • oscarmondo

    (@oscarmondo)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi, I’m using Advanced Custom Fields to add a Datepicker custom field. I want to display it using this plugin, which I can do like this:

    [field date custom=true]

    However, I need to display the long month (“August”) instead of just the date string (“2016-08-24”). How do I do this? I basically need to be able to do a date format on it. I can modify the field in ACF to make it store the date in whatever format is easiest. Thanks!

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  • Peter Berger

    (@peterpolow)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Did you try “F”? See also: https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time

    Thread Starter oscarmondo

    (@oscarmondo)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve figured out more of the problem and updated the title to clarify.

    Right now I’m using an ACF Datepicker field (called ‘date’) and using the default Save Format (yymmdd). I want to display just the month. Based on a lot of Googling (particularly this: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-content-by-date-field), the shortcode I would expect to use here is something like this:

    [field acf_date="date" date_format=F]

    However, this just displays the full date string as it was stored in the DB by ACF.

    I’ve seen other posts suggesting I store the date as a timestamp, or maybe use the Date & Time Picker in ACF, but as far as I can tell those options no longer exist.

    Please help!

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