How to display time-ago-style relative dates on your Wordpress website

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I'm pretty sure that you've seen social media platforms or individual websites which are using relative time to describe how long ago an entry was posted.

In other words, instead of showing the actual date timestamps, you will display something like just now, three hours ago, yesterday, etc.

Here's an example:

Relative dates give users a sense of how much time has passed since something was posted ...

And I've decided to create this short tutorial where I will show you how easy is to add time-ago-style relative dates to your Wordpress website ...

Interested?

Here it is:

How to display time-ago-style relative dates on your Wordpress website

Enjoy it!

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Great idea! Thanks for sharing it.

Thanks for reading!

Another page to favorite. -)

Once again, thanks for the time Nancy!

Thanks a lot.

Thanks Chong!

Really useful!
We never think about it but its'true that
the date of an article can play on the desire to leave
a comment or not, to buy something or not.

Thanks for sharing
Ingrid

Good point!

Thanks Ingrid!

Thank you Zed

Thank YOU!

Thanks for sharing, Zed.

Thanks for reading Roger!

No problem, Zed.

:))

Thank you for sharing

Good to know

Jennifer

Thanks for the time Jennifer!

You are most welcome

Jennifer

I thoroughly enjoyed this...I am bookmarking this for future reference. I actually like the idea of time-ago-style.

Thanks Zed!!

I wish you the best!
Bob

Thanks Bob!

My pleasure.

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