Have a closer look to: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_date
you will need to add something like
<p>Date posted: <?php the_date(); ?></p>
in your index.php and single.php… dont know the theme, but you better create a childtheme first http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Seems like my index.php don’t contain code that relates to categories, tags, or permalinks. However, I have content-single.php and content.php in my theme, should I add the code inside those two files?
Yes… there where you want to output the post date
e.g. for content.php
<header class="entry-header">
<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'colormagic' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a></h1>
<p>Date posted: <?php the_date(); ?></p>
</header>
e.g. for content-single.php
<header class="entry-header">
<h1 class="entry-title">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</h1>
<p>Date posted: <?php the_date(); ?></p>
</header>
<!-- .entry-header -->
If you also need the post time, not only the post date you will find the code right here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_time
Does that work for you?
It works for most of the posts. I wonder why the date doesn’t appear in some post.
On most of the posts, it shows correctly like “24 January 2012”, on other posts, it just shows like “php the_date(); ?>”.
Thanks for your help 🙂
Can you pls post the code section where you have add date function… not everything just 5 or 10 lines around it…
Sure, why not.
This is my content.php
http://pastebin.com/wqwCrrsP
and this is my content-single.php
http://pastebin.com/XJgzMf47
This is the screenshot of my WordPress site. You can see that on the fist post, there is a date appears under the post title, but the date doesn’t appear on the second post.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/clipboard01zx.jpg
I realized that my content-single.php I mistyped
<p>php the_date(); ?></p> instead of `<p><?php the_date(); ?>
It fixes the date when seeing the content BUT date still doesn’t appear in all posts in the index.
What did I do wrong?
hm… I can’t see anything wrong… ok i’m very tired and need to sleep now 🙂
If noone will see whats going wrong, I will test the theme tomorrow by myself to see what happends…
I still can’t get it working properly. I contacted the theme author 3 days ago. I will update results if anyone interested.
However, theme author haven’t get back to me yet. This topic is still open for help.
