WordPress Date & Time Formatting

Call it OCD, but I’m a little anal when it comes to designing layouts because I want them to look exactly how I envision it. When I started using WordPress, I had to learn through dozens of tutorials and FAQ’s to create my current theme.

One issue I came across was the ability to display the date on all entries. I noticed that when I published two or more entires in one day, the date would only show on the more recent post of that day, leaving an empty line between the title and category. The code I originally used was:

<?php the_date() ?>

After scouring the Internet for a solution, I realized that in order to display the date on all entries, I would have to change the code to this:

<?php the_time(‘j’) ?> <?php the_time(‘F’) ?> <?php the_time(‘Y’) ?>

This is a longer, more specific code that tells the page to load the date, month, and year every time, regardless of multiple entries in one day.

I hope you find this helpful because it took me a while to figure it out!

For more information on customizing the date and time, check out WordPress Codex.

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