Can we use 1 date and format is different ways with the shortcode?

• bbdginc

• September 13, 2021 at 3:14 pm

We were thinkning about purchaing and implementing, but I cant find any information on things like ability to format dates differently using the shortcode. We display dates multiple formats throughout out site, and we want a way to do that with the shortcode. Is that something what works.?

Example date time 09/12/2021 11:59 pm displayed
Sunday
Sunday September 12, 2021
09/12/2021 11:50pm
Can we use 1 date and format is different ways with the shortcode?

• John Huebner

• September 14, 2021 at 10:03 am

There is nothing built into ACF that will allow formatting dates in different ways.

1. You would need to build your own shortcodes, one for each format, or one with an attribute to specify format
2. You would need to set the ACF format to something that the shortcodes can use
3. You would need to get the field in the shortcode and format it