“Human readable” date

Here’s a short code snippet you can use if you want your date to be displayed as “Today”, “Yesterday” or “X days ago”. To accomplish this, simply add a filter to the_date.

In my example it shows “X days ago” if it less than 7 days old. Short and sweet!

function mytheme_the_date( $date ) {
$time = strtotime( $date );
$difference = time() - $time;
$days_ago = (int)( $difference / 60 / 60 / 24 );

if ( date( 'Y-m-d' ) === date( 'Y-m-d', $time ) )
   return __( 'Today' );
elseif ( date( 'Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 day') ) === date( 'Y-m-d', $time ) )
   return __( 'Yesterday' );
elseif ( $days_ago < 7 )
   return sprintf( __( '%d days ago' ), $days_ago );

return $date;
}
add_filter( 'the_date', 'mytheme_the_date' );

Happy coding!

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