Title: Date/Time THEN Post Title
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Date/Time THEN Post Title

 *  [dtsports](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtsports/)
 * (@dtsports)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datetime-then-post-title/)
 * Just wondering what I need to change so that the Date/Time stamp of my post appears
   above the post title?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Cal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themesbycal/)
 * (@themesbycal)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datetime-then-post-title/#post-619938)
 * Do you want to change that on the index page or the single post page? Each uses
   a different file.
 * Single Posts use single.php and other pages usually use index.php(the ones that
   list multiple posts)
 * If you let me know that, I can help you further.
 *  Thread Starter [dtsports](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtsports/)
 * (@dtsports)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datetime-then-post-title/#post-619939)
 * Hey Cal …
 * I’m guessing the Index, but wouldn’t I want it to be changed on both?
 *  [Cal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themesbycal/)
 * (@themesbycal)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datetime-then-post-title/#post-619940)
 * yeah probably….lol guess I should have assumed that…
 * okay, here’s the code that displays the date/time
 *     ```
       <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
       ```
   
 * So if your index.php looks like this
 *     ```
       <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
       <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
       ```
   
 * **Change it to look like this**
 *     ```
       <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
       <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
       <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
       ```
   
 * I didn’t test this, but it should work and hopefully you get what I’m doing by
   seeing the change…
 * Note: copy and pasting this may not work…..
 *  Thread Starter [dtsports](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtsports/)
 * (@dtsports)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datetime-then-post-title/#post-619957)
 * Thanks Cal … I’m having a bit of trouble as some of the code looks just different
   enough to scare the crap out of me .
 *     ```
       <h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
   
       <small class="title">It's <?php the_date('l') ?> <?php the_time('F') ?> the <?php the_time('jS') ?> around <?php the_time('g:i A') ?>
   
       </small>
       ```
   
 *  [Cal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themesbycal/)
 * (@themesbycal)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datetime-then-post-title/#post-620077)
 * no problem, this should work
 *     ```
       <small class="title">It's <?php the_date('l') ?> <?php the_time('F') ?> the <?php the_time('jS') ?> around <?php the_time('g:i A') ?></small>
   
       <h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
       ```
   
 * All I did was put the date above the h2 tag, that should work….
 *  Thread Starter [dtsports](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtsports/)
 * (@dtsports)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datetime-then-post-title/#post-620116)
 * Thanks for your help Cal!

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