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I'd like each blog post to show the full publication date "Day Month Year" instead of just "Day Month".

I know the summary block shows the full date but I'd like users/readers who extract or use our content to be able to properly reference it.

Thanks for any help/advice you can provide

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Squarespace actually puts the full blog post publication date on every blog page in a meta element with an itemprop='datePublished'. If you search for this item and get the content attribute, you can use this to inject into the published date element.

 

<script>
//only run the code after the dom has loaded
  document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
    
    //get the blog post html item so that we can later replace this with the full published date
      var pubdate = document.getElementsByClassName("blog-meta-item--date");
    //get the published info from the meta property on the page
    var datePublishedMeta = document.querySelector('meta[itemprop="datePublished"]');
      for (var i = 0; i < pubdate.length; i++) {
        if (datePublishedMeta){
          //turn the meta date into a Date item so we can restyle it
          var d = new Date(datePublishedMeta.getAttribute('content'));
          //Set the dateStyle. I prefer 'long' to display the full month like March instead of Mar
         pubdate[i].innerText = d.toLocaleString('default', {dateStyle: 'long'}); 
        }
      }    
  });



</script>

 

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