Daily Tip: How to Use Fuzzy Dates For WordPress Posts
March 31, 2010
Many social networking sites display dates and times as relative to the current day- ie. ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago’, ‘2 Weeks Ago’, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago’, ‘2 Minutes Ago’, ‘2 Hours Ago’.
You can do this too with your WordPress updates. Grab the WP-Relative Date plugin and install it. Then, open your index.php, single.php, page.php or any other file using the_date and edit as follows:
Replace this:
<?php the_date(); ?>
With this:
<?php relative_post_the_date(); ?>
Now you should have “fuzzy” dates for your updates. :)
Because this plugin/widget is provided free of charge, I simply ask you to link back to Pressography.com in a post on your blog, or from one of your sites. It doesn't need to be anything fancy - just a note saying that you're using it, and whether or not you like it. However, there is no requirement that you do this, you're free to use the plugin regardless.
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