Is it possible to display the date on certain pages without overriding the template?

[emslade]

Hi,

As the title, I'm looking to display the date on some pages without overriding the template:

For example on https://docs.gamebench.net/docs/release-notes/private-server/v2-22-1/.

As I see it, my options are:

• Include the date in the content of the file (duplicating the date in the front matter)
• Modify the single page template to conditionally include the date on the page

Is there another way I can achieve this?

Thank you!

[imfing]

Hi @emslade , thanks for using Hextra, the site looks great!

By "display the date", do you mean showing the date similar to what we do in the blog post:

[emslade]

Thank you for developing the theme!

Yes that's correct, I didn't want to use the blog functionality though.

Thanks!

[imfing]

some other ways I can think of:

For example, define a new layout single-with-date.html and explicitly set the front matter:

title: example
date: 2020-02-20
layout: single-with-date

---

Alternatively, you may also define a custom shortcode layouts/shortcodes/date.html, and include that on the top of your content which reads the date from the front matter

---
title: example
date: 2020-02-20
---

{{< date >}}

Rest of the content...

[emslade]

Great! Thank you