Modern Studio Pro – Changing date format

[pixelpushers]

Hi,

I 'm building a site at the moment using Modern Studio Pro

At the top of the posts the date always appears in the month-day-year format (ie today would be 04.08.2016)

I'm British and we never format dates like this (we always use day-month-year)

Can anyone tell me how to change this so it would read as either 8th April 2016 or 08.04.2016? It must be a theme setting as when I try and change the date format in general wordpress settings it remains the same.

Also if any StudioPress staff read this it would be great if you coded the themes so these defaults weren't just for an American audience!

Thanks

Gill

http://local only

[carasmo]

That's not a StudioPress setting it's WordPress. Go to your http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-general.php and choose the date format. You can use php date code in the field to adjust it even more than the default options.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

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Genesis Theme Customization and Help

[carasmo]

Also change the language to English UK (very bottom of the page).

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Genesis Theme Customization and Help

[pixelpushers]

Thanks but as I said already it doesn't appear to be that WordPress setting - I had already tried changing the date format in General settings and WordPress language is already the English UK version. None of this makes any difference so I can only conclude it has to be a Studio Press setting. When I use other Studio Press themes I don't get this problem however, only this theme - can anyone else help please?

[carasmo]

This is the community forum, your issue may be a bug or you may have to clear your cache or go through your plugins to see if there is a conflict. I usually develop with debug on and when there is something that appears like a bug that I've never seen before, I switch to 2016 theme and if it's still there, then it's a plugin. Get help from SP directly: http://my.studiopress.com/help/

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Genesis Theme Customization and Help

[pixelpushers]

Thanks - I have tried clearing the cache (no joy) - I have also tried a completely clean installation of the theme without plugins and the issue is still the same. I will do as you suggest and contact SP support.

[Victor Font]

Modern Studio Pro has this code in its functions.php:

//* Customize the entry meta in the entry header
add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'ms_entry_meta_header' );
function ms_entry_meta_header( $post_info ) {

	$post_info = '[post_date format="m.d.Y"] <span class="by">by</span> [post_author_posts_link] // [post_comments] [post_edit]';

	return $post_info;

}

Change it to:

//* Customize the entry meta in the entry header
add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'ms_entry_meta_header' );
function ms_entry_meta_header( $post_info ) {

	$post_info = '[post_date format="d.m.Y"] <span class="by">by</span> [post_author_posts_link] // [post_comments] [post_edit]';

	return $post_info;

}

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Regards,

Victor
https://victorfont.com/
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[pixelpushers]

Thanks very much Victor - I just got the same info from StudioPress support too so the issue is resolved. Do find it rather odd that they would set this so the standard WordPress method of changing the date format no longer works - seems a bit of a backward step. Anyway, thanks for your help.

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