Jim Skamarakas

WP-RelativeDate 1.20 Displays relative date alongside with your post/comments actual date. Like ‘Today’, ‘Yesterday’, ‘2 Days Ago’, ‘2 Weeks Ago’, ‘2 ‘Seconds Ago’, ‘2 Minutes Ago’, ‘2 Hours Ago’. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.

The functionality is cute but not a must have or that great of a feature. But it is nice to let people see things in relative time. Post on the WordPress forums and see it in action. But on themes, it can cause problems. One such theme is Red Rose, which Anna is testing out. WP-RelativeDate breaks the themes page and post view graphics. Simple to fix? Well a quick check in the documentation finds no suggestions. Now the theme obviously isn’t designed to handle dates larger then 2 digits for a month and such. Good use of space by the designer? Yes. Bad flexibility? Sure you can say that also, especially given differences in date formats around the world.

But since the plugin makes the change, you would hope they have some notes on what the change to look at adjusting the style, css or theme layout. Instead I found 1 post about it with a sarcastic response. That killed any desire to troubleshoot the issue. I understand self support, and no support and no help. But why mock someone who asked a question months ago when a simple note on how the loop works and where dates come from - or how to tweak it up or down? An example - change the themes call of date() to wprelativedate1() and then outside the graphic make a call to wprelativedate2() which gives the text string, placing it below or in a text box, and add this value to your styel.csss .wprelativedate

Not a ton of work, but a ton of guidance and benefit to anyone who might have an issue.

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