Human Time Diff, change mins to minutes

Question

On my WordPress site, I am using the human time difference for the post date. If you have a post that was posted 59 minutes ago or under it appears as posted 1 min ago, 5 mins ago, or posted 35 mins ago. Is there a way that I can change mins to minutes?

This is the code I have.

<div class="front-page-date">
    <?php 
        echo human_time_diff( get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp') ) . ' ago'; 
    ?>
</div>

Answer 1

You can do:

echo str_replace('mins', 'minutes', human_time_diff( get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp') ) . ' ago');

Update:

The same using filter as suggested:

add_filter('human_time_diff', 'new_human_time_diff', 10, 2);
function new_human_time_diff($from, $to) {

    // remove filter to prevent the loop
    remove_filter('human_time_diff', 'new_human_time_diff');
    $timediff = str_replace('mins', 'minutes', human_time_diff($from, $to) . ' ago');

    // restore the filter
    add_filter( 'human_time_diff', 'new_human_time_diff', 10, 2);

    return $timediff;
}

echo human_time_diff(get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp'));

Answer 2

This is a good use of the human_time_diff filter, which lets you use your function call as usual, then changes the "mins" to "minutes" on the fly. No need to change your existing code or modify filter use; use string replacement in the filter callback after the time diff string is created by core.

function wpse_time_diff_mins( $since, $diff, $from, $to ) { 
    return str_replace( 'mins', 'minutes', $since );
}

add_filter( 'human_time_diff', 'wpse_time_diff_mins', 10, 4 );