{"id":1494747,"date":"2018-04-02T14:47:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T21:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-date-format-in-email-notifications\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T14:47:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T21:47:54","slug":"event-date-format-in-email-notifications","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-date-format-in-email-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Event date format in email notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I hope you can help me with this.<\/p>\n<p>I am using Ninja forms as a registration form with payments for events. I tried using your Ticketing plugin first, however it does not work with recurring events so this unfortunately would not suit my needs.<\/p>\n<p>With the form set up using Ninja Forms, I have added a field with the short code {post_meta:_EventStartDate} so that the event date comes through on the email notification. However the formatting is not the same as how I have it set up in Events Calendar or WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>The date and time in the email from this short code comes through as: 2018-04-03 16:00:00<\/p>\n<p>I need the date format to be 03-04-2018 <\/p>\n<p>In Events Calendar I have date format set as:  j F Y and the WordPress General settings for date is set as j F Y<\/p>\n<p>Is there a short code I could use in the emails for the date to match the format I use for the events set up? <\/p>\n<p>The inline shortcode does not seem to include the event date.<\/p>\n<p>I am also using the following shortcodes for the event name and link to the event page: Event name: {wp:post_title} Link to Event Details: {wp:post_url}<\/p>\n<p>Your assistance with this is much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Gemma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1494747","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Event date format in email notifications -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/event-date-format-in-email-notifications\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Event date format in email notifications -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi there, I hope you can help me with this. 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