Calendar dates are nice but relative dates (i.e 1 day ago) can be more attractive. You may have noticed relative dates in Twitter and Facebook status updates. You can also display relative dates for posts and comments without using a WordPress plugin.
In your Theme’s functions.php file, add the following snippet:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | // For postsadd_filter( 'get_the_date', 'human_get_the_date' ); // For commentsadd_filter( 'get_comment_date', 'human_get_the_date' ); function human_get_the_date ($date) { return human_time_diff( strtotime( $date ) ) . ' ago';} |
The above snippet can also display relative time i.e 1 min ago. However, it cannot display relative dates in terms of months, years or centuries 😀