Relative Date Lengths in Genesis

Genesis has always allowed you to display the relative post date like “6 weeks and 1 day ago” using [post_date format="relative"]. It displays two date segments – days and hours, or weeks and days, or months and weeks, or years and months…

In some layouts, especially if you’re using a Grid Loop, a shorter date with a single date segment would work better.

And now you can with Genesis 2.3, using the relative_depth parameter. This applies to the [post_date] and [post_modified_date] shortcodes.

Examples:

[post_date format="relative" relative_depth="1"] = 8 months ago

[post_date format="relative" relative_depth="2"] = 8 months and 4 days

[post_date format="relative" relative_depth="3"] = 8 months, 4 days and 4 hours ago