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Normally WordPress displays dates using boring old numbers. How much more fun would it be to display dates and times using human-readable language to make them all user-friendly and swell.

To make it happen, just add the following snippet to your theme’s functions.php file:

 function timeago() { global $post; $date = $post->post_date; $time = get_post_time('G', true, $post); $time_diff = time() - $time; if ( $time_diff > 0 && $time_diff < 24*60*60 ) $display = sprintf( __('%s ago'), human_time_diff( $time ) ); else $display = date(get_option('date_format'), strtotime($date) ); return $display; } add_filter('the_time', 'timeago');

Once in place, you can see it in action by using the_time() template tag as prescribed.

Update! WordPress 5.3 changes date/time functionality. Check out this post for more details and all the latest techniques. </update>

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