Comments on: Multiple the_date() Functions Return Empty Date

By: Joel G Goodman

Joel G Goodman — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:45:59 +0000

Chris, I saw your tweet about that last week and thought “well yeah, that’s on purpose”. :) I’ve used it a few times.

It’s sort of like old livejournal style – visually group today’s posts under today’s date.

By: Japh

Japh — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:54:32 +0000

Another option, if you did just want to use the_date()'s output multiple times would be to do this right at the start of The Loop: $the_date = the_date('', '', '', FALSE); And then wherever you want it, just do: echo $the_date;

By: Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:17:48 +0000

The same-date-disappearing thing is an amusing sense-of-taste Mattism in the WordPress code. You can turn this off (should you want a date to appear next to every post rather than using separate date headings) by doing the following within a template:

global $previousday; $previousday = -1;

Then you can just use the usual template functions. Done. :-)

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:19:56 +0000

That’s the whole point, you can control the formatting from Settings > General.

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:18:54 +0000

This just happened to me, and I couldn’t figure out why. I’m not super thrilled with the formatting it gives but it will have to work. I’d rather have “2009-10-05″ like i did before. Is this still possible?

Thanks for posting this