{"id":6513458,"date":"2015-09-05T08:21:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T08:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/when-a-string-is-optional-does-this-mean\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:39:10","slug":"when-a-string-is-optional-does-this-mean","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/when-a-string-is-optional-does-this-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"When a string is optional, does this mean&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<br \/>\nIn this code the strings are optional<br \/>\n<code>&lt;?php the_date( $format, $before, $after, $echo ); ?&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If I only want to define the $before and $after strings and leave the others at default value, how do I do it? how does my code should look like?<\/p>\n<p>Like this (?):<br \/>\n<code>&lt;?php the_date( , &#039;before text&#039; , &#039;after text&#039;,  ); ?&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-6513458","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/6513458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/6513458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6513458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}