Hey there,

May I know which page are you referring to and which documentation are you referring to?

https://www.screencast.com/t/Szr9BnQV4o1 shows how to style the date in a post from 2016. This section of EasyBlog>Settings>Layout>General>Custom Fields>Date fields format does not exist like this anymore. All I have is 3, non-American layout.

The setting is still at the same location actually as shown in the screenshot. https://monosnap.com/file/dGD1L4Cz2BAfN5kCzf07kDhSdS1ChY

But it is not possible to override this setting options' date format.

Just wondering, which date format of the page are you trying to change?

Also, can you share me with the link of the documentation of the link that you shared?

EDITED

https://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/administrators/how-tos/how-to-override-date-format is the documentation that mentions EB 5 though it really doesn't relate to my problem at hand. I was merely pointing out that the documentation is out of date.

This is the post I referred to from 2016 - https://stackideas.com/forums/change-date-format

However, the real issue is there was an easy way to format dates in previous versions (that's the "Old (Good)" part of the attachment) and the seriously (actually unusable) dumbed down version that now exists ("New (Bad)").

All that is left of the settings field where we could, previously, use shortcodes (an almost 100% universal way of doing so in software), are 3 British style dates (see 2nd image). Originally, I would have been OK with that, being a New Zealander, but now, living in America and designing predominantly for American businesses, this is unacceptable.

Why was this change made? In America, we ALWAYS have the month before the day. Today is Tuesday, 13th September, 2022 to a Kiwi or yourselves, but to us, it's Tuesday, September 13th, 2022.

Why was this dumbed down? And how can we make it acceptable to our clients here in America?

Actually, the difference between the old and new is the displaying of the option only. Also, the date format value such as 'l, d F Y' have been hardcoded on the value of the options all the time.

By the way, thanks for your input.

We will see if we can do something about it.