Users can alter the default string ‘Announcement Date: m/d/Y’, where m/d/Y is the date that the announcement is set.

This can be easily altered using the timeline_express_announcement_date_text filter built into Timeline Express and Timeline Express Pro. If you’d like to change the text from ‘Announcement Date’ to something else or want to move where the date appears in the string you can do so using the following code snippet.

Keep in mind that this filter needs to be added to the functions.php of your active theme.

/**
 * Change 'Announcement Date: m/d/Y' to 'This Happened On m/d/Y'
 *
 * @param  string $string Original string. eg: Announcement Date %s
 *
 * @return string         The new, altered string to use
 */
function custom_announcement_date_string( $string ) {

	return _x( 'This Happened On %s', 'The announcement date.', 'timeline-express' );

}
add_filter( 'timeline_express_announcement_date_text', 'custom_announcement_date_string' );

If you wanted to change where the date appears in the string, all you need to do is move %s in the returned string. If you wanted the date to appear first, followed by a string of text – your return may look like the following:

return _x( '%s is when this happened.', 'The announcement date.', 'timeline-express' );