Title: Plugin breaks the_date() function
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin breaks the_date() function

 *  Resolved [mother.of.code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imazed/)
 * (@imazed)
 * The Mother of Code
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-the_date-function/)
 * Unsure of why this is happening, but since I’ve installed the plugin my dates
   from the_date() are showing up as %d, %Y etc. This is happening on both English
   and Dutch versions, and in both my template files and widget area’s.
 * Anyone any ideas as to why this is happening?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qtranslate/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qtranslate/)

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 *  Thread Starter [mother.of.code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imazed/)
 * (@imazed)
 * The Mother of Code
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-the_date-function/#post-3911568)
 * Figured it out. Seems to be a frequent issue, not sure why this hasn’t been updated
   yet. Curtesy of [http://maian.org/blog/2010/08/date-formatting-not-working-after-installing-qtranslate/](http://maian.org/blog/2010/08/date-formatting-not-working-after-installing-qtranslate/):
 *     ```
       Edit qtranslate_utils.php, line 143 (now 151) from this:
       $date_parameters[] = '#%#'; $strftime_parameters[] = '%%';
       to this:
       $date_parameters[] = '#%#'; $strftime_parameters[] = '%';
       ```
   

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