Question

I’m attempting to integrate the timeago jQuery plugin with a custom wordpress theme build to display the time a post was published.

As the theme is built using HTML5, timeago requires the inserted code to look a little like this:

<time class="timeago" datetime="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z"></time>

Obviously, simply using <?php the_time() ?>doesn’t work, as the time has to be formatted as above.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

For those interested in what the solution to this turned out to be:

I actually dropped the plugin and added this to my functions.php file in WordPress,

function time_ago( $type = 'post' ) {
$d = 'comment' == $type ? 'get_comment_time' : 'get_post_time';
return human_time_diff($d('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . " " . __('ago');

}

That does the trick! Okay, it doesn’t update in real time but with each page refresh is good enough for me.