Title: dateformat for custom field
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# dateformat for custom field

 *  [borisj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borisj/)
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 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dateformat-for-custom-field/)
 * Is there a way to modify the output of a date custom field (YYYY-MM-DD), like
   the creation date with the shortcode parameter dateformat?
 * Any hint where and how to modify the plugin code to achieve this?
 * I know that I need to add date(“d.m.Y”, strtotime($date)); somewhere.
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 * [date format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/date-format/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dateformat-for-custom-field/)
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