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Asked: 2026-06-15T18:06:15+00:00

I have this code in my theme. $vandaag = the_date(‘M d. Y’); echo ucfirst($vandaag);

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I have this code in my theme.

$vandaag = the_date('M d. Y');
echo ucfirst($vandaag);

The output is still “okt 11. 2012”
I have the settings for wordpress in dutch, where apparently it doesn’t capitalize the month. Any ideas why this doesn’t work and still echos a lowercase month?

EDIT: I am using an English installation of wordpress, but have a plugin installed that changes the name of the month to dutch. This only works for the_date() and not when I use get_the_date(). This is what limited me to using the_date().

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  1. Editorial Team
    $vandaag = the_date('M d. Y', '', '', FALSE);
echo ucfirst($vandaag);

    It will otherwise echo the value, setting the 4th argument to false will return instead.

    Both get_the_date() and the_date() are correct depending on what you are wanting to do. Your preference really. Check out the documentation for both to decide what better fits your current usage.

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