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Template Tags/single month title

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Description

Displays or returns the month and year title for the current page. This tag only works when the m or archive month argument has been passed by WordPress to the current page (this occurs when viewing a monthly archive page).

Note: This tag works only on date archive pages, not on category templates or others.

Usage

 <?php single_month_title( $prefix, $display ) ?> 

Default Usage

 <?php single_month_title(
    'prefix'   => , 
    'display'  => true ); ?> 

Parameters

$prefix
(string) (optional) Text to place before the title.
Default: None
$display
(boolean) (optional) Display the title (TRUE), or return the title to be used in PHP (FALSE).
Default: TRUE

Return Value

The generated title will be: 

prefix + MONTH + prefix + YEAR

If prefix parameter is '*', an example would be: 

*February*2004

Examples

Month and Year on New Lines

Displays the title, placing month and year on new lines. 

<p><?php single_month_title('<br />') ?></p>
December
2004

Using $my_month Variable

Returns the title, which is assigned to the $my_month variable. The variable's value is then displayed with the PHP echo command. 

<?php $my_month = single_month_title('', false); echo $my_month; ?>

Related

the_time, the_date, the_date_xml, the_modified_time, the_modified_date, the_modified_author, single_month_title, get_the_time, get_day_link, get_month_link, get_year_link, get_calendar

See also index of Function Reference and index of Template Tags.
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