You can manipulate the dateformat while using the argument “pub” and if the field “published” belongs to your “cols“-argument. The data inside the column “published” then will appear in your individual style. Different dateformats (e.g. “j. F Y” / “Y” /…..) are available.  The full list of formats you get on the website http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time

Syntax

[[jsdatatable  cat=YourCategory  cols=title,YourColumn1,published,YourColumn2  pub=Y-m-d]]

[[jsdatatable  cat=YourCategory  cols=title,YourColumn1,published,YourColumn2  pub=Y.m-d]]

[[jsdatatable  cat=YourCategory  cols=title,YourColumn1,published,YourColumn2  pub=Y]]

[[jsdatatable  cat=YourCategory  cols=title,YourColumn1,published,YourColumn2  pub=“j. F Y“]]

Notes

Note #1
Only the field “published” can be customized! This is a wordpress build-in field, whitch exist on each wordpress post by default. But you can’t format custom post fields (e.g. “Year”) in this manner. If a custom post fields belongs to your “cols“-argument, you get back your data from the database in that way, how you put it in before!

Note #2
Please use quotation marks if a space character belongs to your pub-format.

Note #3
If you modify the dateformat through the “pub“-statement, consider the ordering  (ASC/DSC). Ordering depands in most cases on the configured dateformat. To ensure a correct sequence for your column “published” the recommended pub-format “Y-m-d” is always a good choice.

Note #4
Please consider that the field “published” is not related to field “Year” !!!!! These are 2 totally different fields. The field “Year” is merely a custom post field and exists only in our demo database for this website (it contains the 4-digit year and is not a real full date). The field “published” on the other hand is a default-wordpress-build-in-field, existing in each wordpress setup worldwide. Of course it’s possible to use both fields to declare a year of manufacture of a vehicle. In our demo database we used both fileds to show examples and to declare a year of manufacture of a vehicle. Therefore now in the following examples we can play around with this and see what exactly is the difference. NOTE: however, in the demo database both fields (“published” and “Year“)  are filled up exactly with same information. We don’t know exactly the month or the day of the manufacture of a car or motorbike. Despite of this, we need a month and day to be able to fill the field “published” (it must contain a real full date). Therefore we use a placeholder and put the “30th Dec” into each record as a dummy, that shoud be a solution, but ist fictitious of cource.

PUB ⇒ Some live examples

Please click on the links below and check out the difference:

[jsdatatable TAG=example-pubdate COLS=pos,title,comment HEAD=”Example,Check this out and see the difference,Note” ODERBY=pos SEARCHING=off ]