Blog collection page - move metadata to bottom + reformat date (7.1)

On 3/25/2021 at 5:18 AM, dvgdvgdvg said:

Site URL: https://cyan-teal-3zmw.squarespace.com/blog-posts

I'm looking to achieve a couple of things on my blog collection page:

1) Move the metadata to below the other post content. (This is easily doable on summary pages via the "Design" panel but doesn't appear to be an option on collection pages.)

2) Change the date format from MM/DD/YY to Mon Day, Year.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

Site password: governance

Update the placement using css

.blog-basic-grid--text {
    display: flex;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.blog-basic-grid--text .blog-more-link {
  width: 100%;
}
.blog-basic-grid--text .blog-meta-section {
  order: 9;
}

Update the dateformat using custom code

Please add this snippet into Settings->Advanced->Code Injection to format the date the way you like it

<!-- Fix inconsistent blog date format on Squarespace 7.1 template -->
<!-- Squarespace Forum 03-08-2021 -->
<script src="https://stevenlevithan.com/assets/misc/date.format.js"></script>
<script>
	document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
      var dateformat = "mm-dd-yyyy";
      var pubdate = document.querySelectorAll("time[datetime], time[pubdate], time.blog-meta-item--date");
      for (var i = 0; i < pubdate.length; i++) {
          var d = new Date(pubdate[i].getAttribute("datetime") || pubdate[i].innerText);
          if ( pubdate[i].classList.contains('blog-meta-item--date') ) {
              d = new Date(document.querySelector('[itemprop="datePublished"]').getAttribute("content").split("T")[0]);
          }
          pubdate[i].innerHTML = d.format(dateformat); 
      }
  });


</script>

The variable dateformat currently set with "mm-dd-yyyy", but you can change to different format (reference here)

These are some more format that supported:

"mm-dd-yyyy" --> 02-25-2021

"dd-mm-yyyy" --> 25-02-2021

"mm/dd/yyyy" --> 02/25/2021

"mmm dd yyyy" --> Feb/25/2021

12 hours ago, bangank36 said:

Update the placement using css

.blog-basic-grid--text {
    display: flex;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.blog-basic-grid--text .blog-more-link {
  width: 100%;
}
.blog-basic-grid--text .blog-meta-section {
  order: 9;
}

Update the dateformat using custom code

Please add this snippet into Settings->Advanced->Code Injection to format the date the way you like it

<!-- Fix inconsistent blog date format on Squarespace 7.1 template -->
<!-- Squarespace Forum 03-08-2021 -->
<script src="https://stevenlevithan.com/assets/misc/date.format.js"></script>
<script>
	document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
      var dateformat = "mm-dd-yyyy";
      var pubdate = document.querySelectorAll("time[datetime], time[pubdate], time.blog-meta-item--date");
      for (var i = 0; i < pubdate.length; i++) {
          var d = new Date(pubdate[i].getAttribute("datetime") || pubdate[i].innerText);
          if ( pubdate[i].classList.contains('blog-meta-item--date') ) {
              d = new Date(document.querySelector('[itemprop="datePublished"]').getAttribute("content").split("T")[0]).getAttribute("content"));
          }
          pubdate[i].innerHTML = d.format(dateformat); 
      }
  });


</script>

 

The variable dateformat currently set with "mm-dd-yyyy", but you can change to different format (reference here)

These are some more format that supported:

"mm-dd-yyyy" --> 02-25-2021

"dd-mm-yyyy" --> 25-02-2021

"mm/dd/yyyy" --> 02/25/2021

"mmm dd yyyy" --> Feb/25/2021

The CSS to move the metadata to the bottom worked perfectly, thank you so much! 🙏  The script to change the date isn't working though, for some reason.

On 3/25/2021 at 9:43 PM, dvgdvgdvg said:

The CSS to move the metadata to the bottom worked perfectly, thank you so much! 🙏  The script to change the date isn't working though, for some reason.

updated correct code

1 hour ago, bangank36 said:

updated correct code

Works perfectly now! Thanks so much!

Thanks! This solves one of my problems. Is i it possible to complement the snippet with some code to change the names of the months to another language? 
I'm moving from 7.0 where I have such a script, but it does not work in 7.1.

Thank you so much, @bangank36!

To show the date with Month Date, Year (e.g. April 15, 2021), you can edit the script as follows:

      var dateformat = "mm-dd-yyyy";

to

      var dateformat = "mmm dd, yyyy";

I did this on my blog and it worked perfectly. Thank you again!