Question

I am using wordpress the_date() function to get the post date ,
and it returns me

<h2 class="the_date>Friday, August 12, 2011</h2>

What I need is to have the friday to be caps without effecting other words aka FRIDAY, August 12, 2011.

Can this be done with jQuery or javascript ?

Answer 1

In your WordPress theme, you could use

<?php strtoupper(the_time('l')) . ", " . the_time('F j, Y'); ?>

instead of the_date() to get your desired output.

Update

jQuery solution if you wish to go that route:

HTML

<h2 class="the_date">Friday, August 12, 2011</h2>

jQuery

var the_date = $('.the_date').html().split(', ');
the_date = [the_date[0].toUpperCase(), the_date.slice(1).join(', ')].join(', ');
$('.the_date').html(the_date);

jsFiddle demo: http://jsfiddle.net/tcA4y/

Updated jsFiddle demo: http://jsfiddle.net/tcA4y/1/