[Resolved] How to shorten month name?

[Matic]

Hi,

I am using shortcode [modified_date] that calls the following PHP function:

function post_modified_date() {
    return get_the_modified_date();
}
add_shortcode( 'modified_date', 'post_modified_date' );

This returns a date in the following format: December 18, 2020. How can I make it so that every month would be shortened to 3 letter only followed by a dot, so it would read: Dec. 18, 2020?

Cheers,
Matic

[David]

Hi there

the get modified date function supports different format arguments – examples here:

https://wordpress.org/support/article/formatting-date-and-time/#format-string-examples

Looking at the example you would need to use:

function post_modified_date() {
    get_the_modified_date( 'M j, Y' )'
}
add_shortcode( 'modified_date', 'post_modified_date' );

[Matic]

Thank you for the link! I don’t know how I missed it.

Your code didn’t work because it needed some additional tweaking.

For anyone else with the same problem, the code that worked for me:

function post_modified_date() {
    return get_the_modified_date('M. j, Y');
}
add_shortcode( 'modified_date', 'post_modified_date' );

Thank you for your help!
Cheers,
Matic

[David]

Glad to hear that.

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