Comments on: Displaying the Date in Your WordPress Theme http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Fri, 24 May 2013 13:27:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-967768 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:40:33 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-967768 You are going to have to be more specific in your request for help. Try the WordPress Codex articles on the WordPress Loop.

]]> By: ProfesorYeow http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-967436 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:53:13 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-967436 I have a problem. When I use in the header () don’t work… anyone know how to solve or only work in the loop? Thanks

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-948044 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:35:04 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-948044 @Bill: Absolutely, which is why I added the second instructions, but you are also right, as is Joachim, that it isn’t clear. I’ve edited it to make it more specific. Thanks for nagging me to update this article after so many years.

]]> By: Bill (LoneWolf) Nickerson http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-948032 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:36:03 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-948032 Remember that with copyright, older is better. Specifying a range like your 2nd copyright example is better than just keeping the current year.

Copyright date is when you established the copyright, and constantly upgrading it defeats the purpose.

]]> By: Joachim Kudish http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-948024 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:53:33 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-948024 Yes, I am well aware of what the_time() is… As described in that function’s codex page, which you linked to, it “Displays the time of the current post.”

When you are putting the Copyright of your site in the footer, you want the current year, not the year that the post was written in, you said it yourself “I want the current year the page is being viewed.” and thus the_time() will not give you the information you want, as I said, date(‘Y’) is how you’d get the current year.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-948023 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:49:36 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-948023 I’ll double check but the_time() is a WordPress template tag not a PHP reference. The article is discussing the use of that tag. In the examples, especially under copyright, I want the current year the page is being viewed. This information is generated in areas within the WordPress Loop. Outside of the Loop, the PHP date could easily be used. Either one will work.

]]> By: Joachim Kudish http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-948004 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:55:34 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-948004 Lorelle,

As someone mentioned above (perhaps they didn’t make themselves all that clear), you’ve made a mistake under the copyright/footer code suggestion.

<?php the_time('Y') would ouput the year of post/page currently being viewed, which is obviously not at all what you want. Instead you should use the date() function, like so: <?php date('Y')

]]> By: Avoid Hardcoding Your Copyright Information http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-947995 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:01:31 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-947995 [...] How many of you still update your themes footer every year to change the copyright date? Thanks to a small snippet of code, you can add this to your footer.php file which will negate the need to manually change the copyright information every year. The code snippet is php the_time(‘Y’) An excellent primer for how to use this snippet within the footer.php file is explained via Lorelle VanFossen. [...]

]]> By: Denise McCallum http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-937059 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:50:57 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-937059 Thank you, was having great difficulty getting the dates to display on articles so very much appreciated, now I’ll I need to work out is how to get the font to fit in with the rest of the theme.

]]> By: Maryam http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-926378 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:21:00 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/displaying-the-date-in-your-wordpress-theme/#comment-926378 Thanks .. I was looking for this hint along time ago

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