Title: DutchDate
Author: mendezki
Published: <strong>September 6, 2007</strong>
Last modified: March 31, 2016

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# DutchDate

 By [mendezki](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mendezki/)

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## Description

Using an English WordPress install and publishing posts in Dutch? Those pesky English
dates produced by `<?php the_time(); ?>` and `<?php the_date(); ?>` were getting
on my nerves too, hence this plugin. Automatically converts english months and days(
except for the initials, so far) to their dutch equivalent.

## Installation

 1. Copy the mp_dutchdate.php file to your WordPress plugin directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. There you go!1. Copy the mp_dutchdate.php file to your WordPress plugin directory.
 4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 5. There you go!

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“DutchDate” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ mendezki ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mendezki/)

[Translate “DutchDate” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/dutchdate)

### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

 * 1.8 Added more filters as [suggested](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-due-to-non-use-of-relevant-filters)
   by [Marco Steinbrecher](https://wordpress.org/support/profile/macsteini)
 * 1.7 Cleaned up code, Edited readme.txt
 * 1.6 Repaired wrong translation of ‘March’ & translated months are now all lowercase.
   Fix by [Kim Alders](http://kimalders.nl).
 * 1.5 added filter for `get_comment_date()`. To translate the comment date you’d
   need to swap `<?php comment_date(); ?>` with `<?php echo get_comment_date(); ?
   >` in your template files. Inspired by [Kim Alders](http://kimalders.nl).
 * 1.4 Added translation for `<?php the_modified_time(); ?>`, `<?php the_date();?
   >` and `<?php the_modified_date(); ?>` template tags
 * 1.3 Previously omitted August > Augustus, corrected in this version. Now also
   removes st, nd and th.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.8**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **90+**
 *  WordPress version ** 1.5.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.5.33**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dutchdate/)
 * Tags
 * [date](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/date/)[dutch](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dutch/)
   [english](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/english/)[translate](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/translate/)
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## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ mendezki ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mendezki/)

## Support

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