Is it safe to use ‘date_default_timezone_set’ in plugin file?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_gmt_from_date Replace all instances of get_the_date or the_date with echo get_gmt_from_date(get_the_date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’)). That’s not a quick fix, it’s a way to fix your sitemaps. EDIT: WordPress SEO runs it’s raw dates from MySQL through a WP function called mysql2date, which in turn calls date_i18n. date_i18n happens to have a handy filter which you can tie … Read more

How to remove published date from RSS feed

Note that if you remove the <pubDate> tag from the rss2 feed, then it will become unvalid. So you don’t want to do that! If it’s empty: <pubDate></pubDate> then the feed will still not validate: > pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time So that wouldn’t be an option either. If you want it static, for … Read more

How to get year, month and hour in WordPress?

PHP Date Format in WordPress function: You’ll have to use the proper date format string (as used in PHP date function) in the WordPress get_the_date() function’s first parameter. For example, to get the Date & Time in the format like 2018-07-23 23:59 (i.e. YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM, where hour is in 24 hour format), you need CODE … Read more

Date, Time, and Timezones

What is the purpose of the timezone setting in the Admin -> Settings section? Since WordPress handles time zone on its own (separately from native PHP functionality) that is where the setting made and result is stored in options. Whenever anything that works with timezones needs to happen, the time zone setting is retrieved and … Read more