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Display Date Field from ACF
1 reply · Started by Jim on February 24, 2021
I use a custom date field created in Advanced Custom Fields to display an updated date on my pages. I don't like using the modified date because I don't want the on-page date to change every time a fix a typo; I only want the date to change when I explicitly set it.
I'm trying to figure out how to use this date with GP. In my previous theme, I had this working in a custom single template:
<?php if ( get_field( 'date_updated' ) ):
echo 'Updated ' . get_field( 'date_updated' );
else:
the_date();
endif; ?> How might I adapt this for use in GP?
To further complicate matters, I'm also trying to combine it with these snippets.
This one to display the author before the date:
add_filter( 'generate_header_entry_meta_items', function() {
return array(
'author',
'date',
);
} );And this one to insert a pipe character between them:
add_filter( 'generate_inside_post_meta_item_output', function( $output, $item ) {
if ( 'tags' === $item || 'date' === $item ) {
return ' | ';
}
return $output;
}, 50, 2 );Any suggestions on how to implement all of this most efficiently?
You can use the generate_post_date_output filter for this.
Example:
add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', function() {
if( ! is_singular( array('page', 'attachment', 'post') ) ){
$time_string = '<time class="entry-date published" datetime="%1$s" itemprop="datePublished">%2$s</time> ';
if ( get_the_time( 'U' ) !== get_the_modified_time( 'U' ) ) {
$time_string = '<time class="updated" datetime="%3$s" itemprop="dateModified">Updated On %4$s</time> ' . $time_string;
}
$time_string = sprintf( $time_string,
esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
esc_html( get_the_date('Y') ),
esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ),
get_field( 'date_updated' )
);
return sprintf( '<span class="posted-on">%1$s</span>', // WPCS: XSS ok, sanitization ok.
sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark">%3$s</a>',
esc_url( get_permalink() ),
esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
$time_string
)
);
}
});We basically changed the modified date source from get_the_modified_date() to your custom field.
