Change date format on Newsworthy theme.

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  elmattnerico · Member · Jun 16, 2013 at 11:21 pm

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  Hello, I just wondered if it was possible to change the way the date is displayed in the yellow box next to each post on the “Newsworthy” theme? I have gone into settings and changed the date format there but it doesn’t affect this. As I am in England I would prefer to have the date as DD/MM/YYYY rather than MM/DD/YYYY if possible?

  Thanks,
  Matt Lockey

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  justjennifer · Member · Jun 19, 2013 at 9:22 am

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  I just checked in my test site and you are right. Even when the date is set to European date format, they continue to display MM/DD/YYYY on the site.

  This date display format does seem to be hardwired into the theme, but I will tag this for Theme Staff reply.

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  cainm · Staff · Jun 19, 2013 at 2:50 pm

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  Hi there,

  Thank you for the report. I’ve opened a ticket to see about getting this fixed. I’ll update you once that’s done.

  Best,
  Michael

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 13, 2013 at 5:46 pm

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  @cainm- hello, anything newsworthy here?

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 11:55 am

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  Hm, according to the Staff reply in this thread:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/newsworthy-theme?replies=11#post-1349300

  Unfortunately this is a theme feature

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  nblank · Member · Jul 27, 2013 at 11:06 am

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  Hi,

  It is possible to change the data format.

  Open the file:
  public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/newsworthy/content.php

  Look at line 4:
  get_the_date(‘m.d.y’)

  I changed it to:
  get_the_date(‘d-M-Y’)

  The format for date’s can be found on: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

  Greetings, Nanno

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 27, 2013 at 3:14 pm

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  It is possible to change the data format.

  Open the file:
  public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/newsworthy/content.php

  @nblank – WordPress.com users do not have access to the underlying PHP files in order to do this. For clarity: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  nblank · Member · Jul 31, 2013 at 7:42 pm

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  Hi Jennifer,

  Thats to bad. I have the site hosted on my own domain. That way I can upload the files myself and make some customizations in the code.

  Greetings, Nanno