Title: Customize Date Display
Last modified: December 22, 2021

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# Customize Date Display

 *  Resolved [ilovetacos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fschall/)
 * (@fschall)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-date-display/)
 * Hey there,
 * Thank you for this great plugin. It was just what I was looking for.
 * I’m trying to customize the date to display as Dec. 22, 2021 and the date default
   is Wednesday 22 Dec 2021. Is there a way to do that?
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  Plugin Author [wpdever](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdever/)
 * (@wpdever)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-date-display/#post-15190944)
 * Hi,
 * You can create a new placeholder with this hook ‘wnbell_content_placeholder’.
   For your case, you can add this to your theme’s functions.php file:
 *     ```
       add_filter('wnbell_content_placeholders', 'add_new_date_format', 10, 2);
       function add_new_date_format($to_replace, $post_id)
       {
           $new_post = get_post_meta($post_id, "post_id", true);
           $to_replace['{{my_date}}'] = get_the_date('M. j, Y', $post_id);
           return $to_replace;
       }
       ```
   
 * Then, in Settings->Notification item, replace {{date}} with {{my_date}}.
 *  Thread Starter [ilovetacos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fschall/)
 * (@fschall)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-date-display/#post-15191170)
 * Sweet! That worked. Thanks so much. Looking forward to using the plugin on other
   websites.

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 * Last reply from: [ilovetacos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fschall/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-date-display/#post-15191170)
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