Date does not display on Blog Post macro excerpts.
Asked by Jonathan Smith:

After upgrading to Confluence 6.6.1, I noticed the date (using //) does not display using the excerpts parameter in the blog post macro. Date displays properly when viewing the full post.

* Confluence 6.6.1
* Chrome 65.0.3325.146

Can someone please verify in your environment?

![2018-04-04_10-11-32.jpg](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18670iD5BC47EBBAD9950B/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2018-04-04_10-11-32.jpg")

Regards - Jonathan


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: Link to the open ticket: <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54223>

comments: author: AnnWorley
body: Thanks for circling back with the bug report. Anyone interested can comment and watch the ticket for progress: [Make Blog Posts Macro render Date Picker in Blog Posts Texts possible](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54223)


author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Jonathan,

I installed Confluence 6.6.1 and worked on reproducing the issue. I am not sure I am doing it correctly. I created a blog, put the date in an excerpt macro and displayed it on a different page using the blog macro.

![Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 2.18.22 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18690i2DBC850C32C4F52D/image-dimensions/187x40?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 2.18.22 PM.png")

![Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 2.18.01 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18691i64AEA9D8DFD891F6/image-dimensions/286x115?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 2.18.01 PM.png")

![Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 2.17.40 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18692i9DBD9A90448DDD88/image-dimensions/243x136?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 2.17.40 PM.png")

![Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 2.28.50 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18697i20EB3D6EC0F3B9B1/image-dimensions/297x182?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-04 at 2.28.50 PM.png")

If I am not following the steps necessary to reproduce please let me know what to do instead.

Thanks,

Ann

comments: author: Jonathan Smith
body: Ann,

Your test looks good. Support responded to have me clear the plugin cache. Will give this a shot and respond back to this thread.


author: Jonathan Smith
body: Ann,

Try this. Create a new blog post that says:

test //date

Insert the blog macro on a page and change the parameters so it says **Content Type to Display = excerpts**. This is when the date goes invisible.

If I choose "entire" in the macro properties, the date displays. See screenshot.

![2018-04-09_8-24-22.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19022i6BA82A1697C4F61C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2018-04-09_8-24-22.jpg")

* Indexing from scratch did not resolve this.

- Jon


author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Jon,

I got the same results you report on Confluence 6.6.1:

![Screen Shot 2018-04-09 at 11.45.14 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19039iB84ED467F1B17E12/image-dimensions/546x215?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-09 at 11.45.14 AM.png")

![Screen Shot 2018-04-09 at 11.44.57 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19040i48E3DDF4DEBCE71A/image-dimensions/564x250?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2018-04-09 at 11.44.57 AM.png")For details on what the different display options do on the Blog Post Macro, please see: [Blog Posts Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/blog-posts-macro-139470.html). The Excerpts content type option on the Blog Post macro is meant for use in combination with the [Excerpt Macro](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/excerpt-macro-148062.html).

It sounds like you can display the date as desired by choosing "entire" as the Content type to display, so I am not sure how to help.

The support engineer on your support request had a lot of questions to help isolate the issue. I hope when the investigation is complete you will let us know how it was resolved.

Thanks,

Ann