[Plugin: WP-RelativeDate] Where the hell do you configure this to work?!

rtfm? readme.html under Usage Tab. There is one in the zip and one online https://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-relativedate.html

For a start the_date() isn’t used in WordPress 2.8 – the_time() is used instead. I dare say this is impacting the way this plug-in works, because it’s not working, from default, on activation for me.

Thanks,
L

I am able to get the following out of the plugin by using the relative_post_the_date(); function in my templates:

27/07/2009 (2 days ago)

However I have no idea as to how to get rid of the initial date part :Z

My code (9th line down):

<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn" role="main"><br />
  <?php if (have_posts()) : ?><br />
  <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?><br />
  <div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><br />
    <h2><a>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><br />
      <?php the_title(); ?><br />
      </a></h2><br />
    <small><br />
    <?php relative_post_the_date(); ?><br />
    <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --><br />
    </small><br />
    <div class="entry"><br />
      <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry ?'); ?><br />
    </div><br />
    <p class="postmetadata"><br />
      <?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?><br />
      Posted in<br />
      <?php the_category(', ') ?><br />
      |<br />
      <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?><br />
      <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?><br />
    </p><br />
  </div><br />
  <?php endwhile; ?><br />
  <div class="navigation"><br />
    <div class="alignleft"><br />
      <?php next_posts_link('? Older Entries') ?><br />
    </div><br />
    <div class="alignright"><br />
      <?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries ?') ?><br />
    </div><br />
  </div><br />
  <?php else : ?><br />
  <h2 class="center">Not Found</h2><br />
  <p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p><br />
  <?php get_search_form(); ?><br />
  <?php endif; ?><br />
</div>

Thanks,
L

I’m having the same trouble and, quite honestly, rtfm is not a helpful reply. I did rtfm and it didn’t help – I’m still getting a display like ‘October 16, 2009 (6 days ago)’…

That is what is suppose to be “October 16, 2009 (6 days ago)” is correct.

The OP wants to get rid of the standard date display and just use the relative date. I found a hack for this at: https://iampariah.com/projects/wp-plugins/hack-wp-relativedate-to-show-only-relative-date-and-time.php

Works fine, though the hack puts brackets around the relative date. To get rid of the brackets after you’ve applied this hack, just change $before = '(', $after = ')' on line 77 with $before = '', $after = ''.

I am using WP 2.9.2 and it does not appear that the relative dates appear on any posts older than a day. I have had other troubles in the past and have spent hours trying to debug it. I just wound up deactivating on all of my sites. I would like to use the plugin, but I am not php savvy enough to figure out the bugs or create hacks.