Hello,

I am following the tutorial http://docs.couchcms.com/tutorials/portfolio-site/blog.html, Diving Deep Blog Part 1. I want to output the post date as suggested by the tutorial, i.e. format="jS M, y". However, the front page does not change. The date still persist to something like this: 2016-11-05 09:23:55. How to troubleshoot this? Thanks!

[KK]

Hi,

Could you please post the exact code you have placed in your template?

Here,

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<cms:show k_page_date format="jS M, y"/>

[trendoman]

Here,

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<cms:show k_page_date format="jS M, y"/>

Please, change it to this corrected tag:

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<cms:date k_page_date format="jS M, y"/>

Works!

I have a small hitch.

I am using the <cms:date> for birthday display.

What happens is that, even if the birthday field is blank (<editable region is datetime), on the front end (and JSON) the current date is displayed.

What I want is that if field is blank nothing should be displayed, especially the current date of the day!

Please advise.

[KK]

You should use <cms:if> to check if the date field has any value before handing it over to <cms:date> for display.
So, for example, if your date field is named 'my_date', instead of directly doing this -

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<cms:date my_date format="jS M, y"/>

- you should be doing this -

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<cms:if my_date>
    <cms:date my_date format="jS M, y"/>
</cms:if>

Hope it helps.

Right Away... Problem SOLVED!!!

Thanks a ton KK Sir!!!