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converting custom field date format

February 21, 20233 Views

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I am using the More Fields plugin which gives me the ability to create a date formatted YYYY/mm/dd and I want to convert that to be shown like: February 11, 2011

Is this possible?

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Anonymous says:

February 21, 2023 at 4:21 pm
Do you have issue with exactly converting or retrieval? Converting is trivial and is plain PHP:
```
date('F j, Y', strtotime($date));
```
For more complex and WordPress-specific way with localization support see date_i18n() function.
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This works for me (inside the loop)…

<?php $date = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'CUSTOM-FIELD-HERE', true); if($date != ''){echo date("l jS F Y", strtotime($date));} ?>

<?php
$date = '2000/10/28';
$a = preg_split ( '///', $date );
echo date('F j, Y', mktime( 0, 0, 0, $a[1], $a[2], $a[0] ) );