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windwhistle on "Changing date format with CSS"

windwhistle — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:14:38 +0000

Okay, thanks. I guess I can cross that off my wish list.

michaelfields on "Changing date format with CSS"

michaelfields — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:59:56 +0000

Unfortunately CSS was not really designed to do something like this.

windwhistle on "Changing date format with CSS"

windwhistle — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:29:21 +0000

Yes, I was adding the time values to the Date Format. It was a work around to get the time into datelines for my posts. Except that it fails because it causes the time to be duplicated in the comments.

I'm wondering if there is a way with CSS to add the time to the default dateline for posts. I don't know enough CSS to figure it out for myself.

michaelfields on "Changing date format with CSS"

michaelfields — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:13:39 +0000

This process is not exactly "correct" as far as the options are concerned.

The Date Format should represent items such as the day - month - year while the Time Format should contain the time section.

Please correct me if I am wrong but it sounds like you are using both values in the Date Format. In The Morning After both the date and time format values are "glued" together to create the datetime that prints with each comment. Unfortunately there is no way to hide one independent of the other.

windwhistle on "Changing date format with CSS"

windwhistle — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:06:56 +0000

For a number of years, with different themes, I've tried unsuccessfully to add the time to my posts' datelines. Yes, under Settings > General I can set a custom dateline -- F j, Y, g:i a T -- and get what I want: April 6, 2012, 2:57 pm MDT. But doing so inevitably causes the dateline in the accompanying comments to repeat the time: April 6, 2012, 2:57 pm MDT 2:57 pm MDT, since comment datelines already include the time by default. I have the CSS upgrade. Is there a way to use CSS to add the time to the post datelines only? I'm using The Morning After theme.

windwhistle on "Choco dateline"

windwhistle — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:44:01 +0000

Thanks, Lance. Design-wise, that's exactly where I'd have put it.

lance on "Choco dateline"

lance — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:56:03 +0000

Hi windwhistle,
We've added the full date to each post in the "post meta" area along with the author, tags, and categories. The design of the theme doesn't allow adding in the year to the side tabs, but your readers can either see it from the URL or from the info underneath the post.

timethief on "Choco dateline"

timethief — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:56:48 +0000

I also prefer the date to be up front too ewhter or not the blogger considers their content to be "timeless". Everyhting is subject to change and the only cconstant in the universe is change. I find the machinations some folks go through attempting to game search engines to be pathetic.

windwhistle on "Choco dateline"

windwhistle — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:46:38 +0000

I hope staff fixes it, although design-wise, I'm not sure where I'd put it or how I'd do it. Personally, I prefer the date to be up front so I don't waste my time looking for it and wondering if what I'm reading is current.

I'm sure we'd all love to finish first in Google's search results, but I would never drop the dateline on my posts. I write a lot about current events, politics, technology, etc., and dates are indispensable.

timethief on "Choco dateline"

timethief — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:36:22 +0000

@windwhistle
In this case of Choco I think it's just a bit of code that got left out and Staff will fix it.

Warning: this is an off-topic but somewhat related aside
The reason I asked is because of a trend that I see going on. I see some wordpress.ORG bloggers are deliberately changing their permalink structure and installing plugins that eliminate dates on their posts and on all comments.

I am a subscriber to some of the blogs I referred to and the disappearance of dates was peeing me off, so I asked one leading personal development blogger who uses a $31. per month SEO plugin and why he did this and was told since the introduction of Google Caffeine the SERPS are showing preference for displaying "fresh" content and his posts were losing positioning in the SERPS (search engine page results). The same blogger told me he thinks his content is "timeless" and that he wants to see it back on the first page of the SERPs. This person is attempting to game the Google algorithm. I was already annoyed by the in your face Aweber subscribe to my newsletterr pop-up he uses, so I unsubscribed form the blog and distanced myself and my blog from him and his blog.

windwhistle on "Choco dateline"

windwhistle — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:15:06 +0000

Yes, the URL contains the date. But how many readers would think to look there?

timethief on "Choco dateline"

timethief — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:11:53 +0000

@windwhistle
When you click the URLs for posts and not pages, do they contain a "year" in the datestamp enbedded in the URL?

windwhistle on "Choco dateline"

windwhistle — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:04:41 +0000

Thanks :)

airodyssey on "Choco dateline"

airodyssey — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:24:29 +0000

Hi. Choco being a new theme, I tagged this thread for you so that staff can have a look.

windwhistle on "Choco dateline"

windwhistle — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:08:53 +0000

I'm seriously considering using the Choco theme, but the datelines do not include the year. This is critical in a multi-year blog. Readers need to know if the post they are reading is, say, Feb 27, 2011 or Feb 27, 2009. The date tabs look great as they are, but a full dateline needs to be included somewhere. I have the CSS upgrade, if it can be done that way.

iansdell on "Single dateline for more than one post headline"

iansdell — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:36:05 +0000

Apologies ... should have posted at wordpress.org. This thread can be deleted.

thesacredpath on "Single dateline for more than one post headline"

thesacredpath — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:09:14 +0000

We need a link to your wordpress.COM blog please.

iansdell on "Single dateline for more than one post headline"

iansdell — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:03:34 +0000

Sorry, forgot to state the obvious ... does anyone know how to achieve this?

iansdell on "Single dateline for more than one post headline"

iansdell — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:01:51 +0000

I'd like only post headlines to appear on my archive pages, which I can work out ok.

But ideally I'd like only one dateline per day, instead of one dateline per entry.

That is ...

Jan 1, 2009
Good story
Another good story

Rather than ...

Jan 1, 2009
Good story
Jan 1, 2009
Another good story

Happy new year, by the way!

raincoaster on "How do I change author name?"

raincoaster — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:41:58 +0000

Your welcome and best of luck.

sillybooks on "How do I change author name?"

sillybooks — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:23:19 +0000

Thanks again, raincoaster. Your response gives sufficient information for me to close this.

raincoaster on "How do I change author name?"

raincoaster — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:45:35 +0000

Some templates will always show the username associated with the blog as the author of every post unless another author specifically writes the post. You can change to a template that doesn't show the author, or you can delete the post and have the author you WISH to have it attributed to post it, and then it will be under their name.

sillybooks on "How do I change author name?"

sillybooks — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:11:21 +0000

raincoaster wrote: "Do you want to change the user's name, or do you want to attribute the post to an entirely different author?"

I want to attribute the post to an entirely different author.
At the moment it shows "sillybooks" - the name of the blog owner; and I do not know how it ever got there. Perhaps because it is the primary, or original, post?
And you feel I do not have an option to change this?

raincoaster on "How do I change author name?"

raincoaster — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:56:06 +0000

I don't believe it can be changed after it's been posted. Do you want to change the user's name, or do you want to attribute the post to an entirely different author? Because I don't think you can do the latter at all; the former, the user has to do and I don't think it works retroactively.

sillybooks on "How do I change author name?"

sillybooks — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:38:52 +0000

This path: Dashboard/Manage/Posts/Author/Edit appears to be where I should go.
The "edit" function does not allow me to change the author name in the dateline (time stamp).
How can I do this? ...Roger