How to display the Media Library Items Upload date

Question

I have a product image catalogue and i'd like to display the Uploaded date of the image:

I can see on the media library it displays on-top of the item: Uploaded on: April 15, 2021 as an exmaple but how do I access that? in my templated files

Answer 1

If you have the attachment ID, you can just use get_the_date():

<?php echo get_the_date( '', $attachment_id ); ?>

If you leave the first argument blank, e.g. '', then it will use the date format from settings. If you don't want that, then provide a PHP date format.

Answer 2

You can use the date_i18n function to format the date according to the WP date settings.

// Assuming you have the attachment ID
$attachment_id = 123; // Replace this with your actual attachment ID

// Get the attachment post object
$attachment_post = get_post($attachment_id);

if ($attachment_post) {
    // Get the uploaded date
    $uploaded_date = $attachment_post->post_date;

    // Format the date
    $formatted_date = date_i18n(get_option('date_format'), strtotime($uploaded_date));

    // Display the date
    echo 'Uploaded on: ' . esc_html($formatted_date);
}