HTML5 Time Element: Use PHP to Populate the DateTime Attribute

Originally Posted on December 20, 2011 Last Updated on July 9, 2013

If you’re running a WordPress site and you want to use the new HTML5 time element and take advantage of the datetime attribute to do so, you can easily auto-populate it with the following code.

<time datetime="<?php the_time('Y-m-d'); ?>">added <?php the_time('n/j/Y'); ?></time>

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