Offset

The post date is displayed using the format set under Settings -> General, from the admin panel. It’s quite customizable, but will change the date format for the whole site. I’ll try to add a parameter so you can display the dates differently, in the next update.

Could you explain what you mean by “offset”? Do you mean like spaces/tabs, or offset the loop by a number of posts..?

Wow! Thanks. great response time, too!

Terribly sorry… “post_offset”, number of posts in the loop…

Yes, you can limit the number of posts to show in the query loop, by setting the count parameter. To show the titles of the 3 most recent posts:

[loop type="post" count="3"]
    [content field="title"]
[/loop]

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I added a date_format parameter to display post dates in a custom format. Please see the latest plugin update. Here’s an example:

[loop type="post"]
    [content field="title"] - Posted on: [content field="date" date_format="d.m.Y"]
[/loop]

This will show the post dates in European style (day, month, year): 18.11.2013. If you need to display characters as they are without formatting, use double backslashes to escape them: Y/m/d \\a\\t g:i A will show 2013/11/17 at 11:06 PM.

For more information on how to create date formats, please see the Codex: Formatting Date and Time.

Wow, date thing looks spectacular!

For offset though, I am wondering about offsetting the loop, like using the “post_offset” parameter…

I’ve already used your count parameter to get a specific number of posts… but what about if I DON’t want the last three posts? what if I want to start the loop four posts ago? You can do it in get_posts and in WP_query, but offset and post_offset don’t work in the shortcode.

Sure, I added the offset parameter to the loop shortcode. Please see version 0.3.8. To skip the first 3 posts in the query:

[loop type="post" offset="3"]
    [content field="title"]
[/loop]

Looking back, I was terribly unclear. THanks!

You, sir, are brilliant!