Wordpress - Adding date and time to blog

[blando89]

Hello,

I am trying to figure how to add the date and time to my blog posts. I would also like to have my name by it as well. Any idea on how to do this? I looked through all the settings and not seeing anything.

Thanks!

 

[Rob Whisonant]

If the theme you are using does not have that option you can edit the theme and add the needed function. Take a look at this.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_time

 

[arindamb]

Hello,

I am trying to figure how to add the date and time to my blog posts. I would also like to have my name by it as well. Any idea on how to do this? I looked through all the settings and not seeing anything.

Thanks!

You mean you want to add date time and author name in your blog posts?

If so, go to single.php or category.php or the place you want to show date time and your name on each blog post

Adding this

<?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?>  by <?php the_author() ?>

Hope it helps!

 

[blando89]

Do you just add the php in the text of the post or is this in the settings somewher?

 

[arindamb]

arindamb

If your WP theme could not show date/time and author on its theme then you need to do it manually by adding this code into PHP file and at suitable place to show on.

 

[blando89]

Hm because if i go into Settings and General it shows the date and time selected etc. I do not know where the php file would be to add that.

 

[arindamb]

arindamb

I will go with Ron Killian' advice!

You should learn a bit about how to edit and build a wordpress theme. It will be helpful for you when working on Wordpress sites.

If not, change to a theme can support show date/time and author name as you wanted.

 

[Ron Killian]

For most people, that might not have much experience with editing wordpress theme's, it's some times better to find a different theme that does what you want. Pretty easy to mess up PHP code (I know from experience), and some times difficult to get the layout right.

Not trying to be negative, always good to learn, but some times

 

[RebeccaDooley]

To add Date and Time stamp in WordPress posts, you need to modify "index.php" file of the current active theme. Now check this code:

From:

<?php $elixir->timesince() ?> ago at <?php the_time() ?>

Replace with:

<?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> at <?php the_time('g:i a'); ?>

Thus, using this you can figure out the date and time in your WordPress blog posts.