Can I get a link to at least one of the blog sites? Look in your index.php file in your theme and make sure the date code is there; your comment “just not populated into the containing element” leads me to believe you have more than one loop going there perhaps?
Mind you a work in progress, the posts here are quick copies over from the previous blog, much of the content was lost in the process, however I did go through and check that the dates were set according to their original posts:
http://michaelaustinproductions.com/blog/
The Fresh Free Icons post a few down is the one in question on this site. Being that this is a static issue(on each blog it is the same post every time that this happens to) I did check to make sure the date was set through the wp-admin, and it will list the date from admin panel.
You mean it is always the third post down? That’s really weird. Would you mind posting your template code then?
Have you tried disabling all your plugins to see if it goes away then or possibly using the default theme to see if it still misbehaves?
But is the date somehow “blank” on that Fresh Free Icons post? I can’t think of any other reason why WP would selectively ignore a date in a post.
The other site it’s actually, the 2nd in a group of 3 that they currently have(I’d link but an unfinished client site not sure if they’d like that)
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post-item">
<h4> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"> <?php the_title(); ?> </a></h4><br />
<p class="meta"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">posted by <?php the_author();?> on <?php the_date(); ?></a></p>
<?php the_excerpt('',TRUE,''); ?>
</div> <!-- end post-item-->
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div id="morePrev">
<span class='older alignleft'><?php next_posts_link('Older posts'); ?></span>
<span class='newer alignright'><?php previous_posts_link('Newer posts'); ?></span>
</div>
<?php else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</section><!-- end content -->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
and here in the actual post the date displays.
This site is using HTML5 markup, incase that would be a question, however the other site does not.
I’ll run through the plugins installed(tried the one I knew to be common to no avail, but will go through the others, then try the default theme to see what happens.
This is just some general weirdness… thanks for the quick replies though, much appreciated
Replace the_date() function with the_time(). The date function will only list the date once when multiple posts in a loop have the same date.
