Colormag header date format problem

silvanoir
(@silvanoir)

9 years, 4 months ago

Hello.

Please help!

How to change the date format which appears in the header area? Now it looks like this: Sunday, November 20, 2016. I need it to look like this: Sunday, 20 November2016

Is there any simple way – without making a child theme etc. to change this in code?

Thank You for every response 🙂

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ThemeSumo
(@themesumo)

9 years, 4 months ago

Have you changed the date format under the Settings > General menu from within your Dashboard?

l, j FY would create Sunday, 20 November2016

Hope this helps.

UPBoetendael
(@upboetendael)

9 years, 4 months ago

To ThemeSumo: unfortunately the WordPress settings> General date format chosen doesn’t change the date format in the theme header area.
Best regards
ThemeSumo
(@themesumo)

9 years, 4 months ago
Okay, you can modify this date format using a Child Theme, add this to the functions.php file:
```
function colormag_date_display() { ?>
   <div class="date-in-header"><?php 
        echo date_i18n('l, j FY'); ?>
   </div><?php
}
```
The above function will overide the default function that displays the date in the header, hope this helps.
Thread Starter silvanoir
(@silvanoir)

9 years, 4 months ago

Okay, you can modify this date format using a Child Theme, add this to the functions.php file:

function colormag_date_display() { ?>
<div class=”date-in-header”><?php
echo date_i18n(‘l, j FY’); ?>
</div><?php
}
The above function will overide the default function that displays the date in the header, hope this helps.

Sorry but this doesn’t help. Where should I place this code directly?
ThemeSumo
(@themesumo)

9 years, 4 months ago
You need to use a Child Theme, this way you can use its functions.php file to modify a theme function.

You can copy/paste the code I gave you above into the file and it should work without any issues as I tested it on my own environment.

If you modified a theme file directly without using a child theme, you would lose all custom code changes the moment you update the theme in the future. The function we’re going to override resides within the /inc/functions.php file (line 514) of the colormag theme.

Hope this helps.
- This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by ThemeSumo. Reason: typo
eldblath
(@eldblath)

9 years, 3 months ago

Hello

I have tried the code above ` function colormag_date_display() { ?>
<div class=”date-in-header”><?php
echo date_i18n(‘l, j FY’); ?>
</div><?php
}`
on child theme. Good. But where can i change the Latest words with something like this :
Infos :
Thank you.
Nb: i am on localhost in developping the website.