How to Make the Blogger Posts Have a Calendar for the Date in

Its quite common to see calendar style dates next to some WordPress posts but for the Blogger platform it isnt always an very easy task to add this. But who said you cant do it? You need to look no further than this blog. In this tutorial, well learn how to create a calendar style date for your Blogger posts.

DEMO

How to create calendar style dates in Blogger

Step 1. Go to Settings > Language and Formatting - Date Header Format and change the date format as you can see in my example below (put day first, then the month and finally the year)
 

Step 2. Then go to Template > Edit HTML

Step 3. Select the "Expand Widget Templates" checkbox

Step 4. And search (CTRL + F) the following line:

<h2 class=date-header><span><data:post.dateHeader/></span></h2>

Step 5. In case you find it twice, then you should replace it twice with this code:

<div id=Date>
<script>changeDate(&#39;<data:post.dateHeader/>&#39;);</script>
</div>
<b:else/>
<div id=Date>
<script>changeDate(&#39;&#39;);</script>
</div>

Step 6. Now search for this tag (CTRL + F to find it)

</head>

Step 7. And paste the code from below just ABOVE the </head> tag:

<script type=text/javascript>
//<![CDATA[
var DateCalendar;
function changeDate(d){
if (d == "") {
d = DateCalendar;
}
var da = d.split( );
day = "<strong class=date_day>"+da[0]+"</strong>";
month = "<strong class=date_month>"+da[1].slice(0,3)+"</strong>";
year = "<strong class=date_year>"+da[2]+"</strong>";
document.write(month+day+year);
DateCalendar = d;
}
//]]>
</script>
<b:if cond=data:blog.pageType != &quot;static_page&quot;>
<style type=text/css>
/* Calendar style date
----------------------------------------------- */
#Date {
background: transparent url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM7LD2yuO8-sKv-uAmVr4ygGojbsrxTQZRbLqdJJo9fluygXX5HZ67DKJhWP5VvOxIK8uSZG2QB8_sMfy5D7NAvmqIJgB4oiY42Vo5ujU2bTzYHEsBSEc832qzhV4N6HZZaJD0u6CD1q7J/s1600/calendar07.png) no-repeat;
display: block;
width:60px;
height:60px;
float: left;
margin: 15px 2px 0 -108px;
padding: 0 0 8px 0px;
border: 0;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.date_month {
display: block;
font-size: 15px;
font-weight:bold;
margin-top:-1px;
text-align:center;
color:#ffffff; /* Months color */
}
.date_day {
display: block;
font-size: 28px;
font-weight:bold;
margin-top:-8px;
text-align:center;
color:#282828; /* Days color */
}
.date_year {
display: block;
font-size: 10px;
margin-top:-8px;
text-align:center;
color:#282828; /* Years color */
}
</style>
</b:if>

Before saving your Template, we can make some changes:

• To change the calendar style, replace the url in blue with yours;
• If the calendar doesnt appear correctly, change -108 with 0;
• With green are marked the areas where you can change the color of the dates

Step 8. Now Preview your Template and if everything is ok, click on the Save button. Enjoy!

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