So ... Here's the thing ... Certain themes will override the plugin settings and you won't see any changes ...

In such cases you have two options: to install and activate a new theme, or to insert the relative dates manually into your WP theme files.

In the latter case, you'll need a different plugin called WP Relative Date. Here it is:

WP RelativeDate

Upon activation, the plugin will try to replace the default WP dates in your theme files with relative date & time. But once again, there are countless themes out there, each one is coded in a different manner, and the plugin may not be able to work with your theme ...

In which case you'll have to insert the code manually into your Wordpress theme files.

For example, if you want to display relative dates on a single post page, then you'll have to edit the single.php or content-single.php files. For comments, you may need to edit the comments.php file. And so on ...

First, you'll have to download the targeted file to your computer using an FTP connection or WP File Manager.

Then, you'll have to find the following lines in your theme’s template file(s) ...

<?php the_date(); ?>
<?phpsget_the_time();s?>
<?phpsget_the_date();s?>


... in order to replace them with the following line ...

<?php relative_post_the_date(); ?>

And of course, you'll have to upload the edited files to implement the changes ...

One last thing: any theme update will overwrite the manually edited and uploaded files!

And that's it my friends!

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