Hello everyone,

I'm currently working on displaying an excerpt of my Wordpress posts on my website. I've got everything working perfectly but I'd like to display the date of each post with a cool calendar background.

Currently I'm using the <?php the_date(); ?> tag which pulls the date of each post from the database in the following format:

month day, year

What I'd like to do is add the day and month in the following format:

<div class="calendar sprite-main">
day
<em>month</em>
</div>

Is it possible to achieve this? I have noticed that I can apply attributes to the tag but haven't found an option to get the date and month separately.

Thanks!
Jack

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_date

Originally Posted by chrishirst

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_date

Thanks Christ, I found that page earlier but I failed to notice the important points

I managed to achieve what I wanted with the following:

<div class="calendar sprite-main">
<?php the_date('d'); ?>
<em><?php the_time('F'); ?></em>
</div>

Thanks for the help.

When you want to do something with a variable from a WP function rather than echo it right away there is usually partner "get_" function. In this case get_the_time().

For example:

PHP Code:

$date_month = get_the_time('F');
$date_day =  get_the_time('d'); 


The above will only "store" the variables but not echo them.