Change Date formatting on comments

There are a few different ways to do this:

The setting to change the date format can be located going to your WordPress Dashboard – Facebook Feed – Customize – Typography (tabbed page) – scroll down to the “Post Date” section on the page —

1. In the “Custom format” setting in that section place the following: m.d.y Save Changes on the page. If you click on “Examples” you can also view other custom date formats that you might wish to use as well

Or,

2. In the “Date Formatting” setting in the same location, simply select a pre-formatted date style that you might want in the drop-down list. Save Changes on the page.

Inspect your feed to make sure it reflects the date format as requested. .

David – Smash Balloon Support Staff

Hey Vidiok,

Just a quick follow-up on my reply above…

The option I suggested only changes it for the post date and not for the actual comments. There’s not a built in option to change the date format of the comments and currently there isn’t an easy way to do that without editing the source code of the plugin. We will add this to the update list and include an option in a future update however.

Hey David,

thanks for your reply.
Can you give me a statement how long i have to wait for this update?
Is there a possibility to editing the source code by myself?

Danks for Support
Vidiok

Hey Vidiok,

You can edit the plugin directly to make this change by doing the following:

1) Open the plugin’s cff-init.php file
2) On line 2814 you’ll see the following

$cff_comments .= cff_timeSince(strtotime($comment_item->created_time)) . ' ' . $cff_date_after;

Change it to be:

$cff_comments .= cff_getdate(strtotime($comment_item->created_time), '12', '') . ' ' . $cff_date_after;

3) Save the file

As David mentioned, we can add this in as an update in the next update. It’ll probably be a few weeks as I’m the developer of this plugin but my new-born daughter is currently in the hospital so I don’t have much time to devote to updating the plugin at the moment. Hopefully making this change directly to the plugin source file will solve the problem for you until I’m able to get an update released.

Let me know whether the above edit to the source code works for you.

John

PS. In future if you have any questions or support requests for the Pro version could you submit a ticket via our website? The moderators of this forum don’t like us providing support for paid products here, only the free version. Many thanks!

Edit the source code works for me.
I wish you and your family all the best!
Many Thanks!

Awesome glad to hear that worked for you, happy to help!

John