Who?, Why?, What?, Where?, WHEN? The cornerstones of all journalistic endeavor.

Let me just highlight that last one again…

WHEN!!!!!

So, why recently has it become fashionable, in WordPress templates in particular, to drop the date from posts?

It should be THE ‘Golden Number One’ piece of metadata for every post, and displayed in big characters at the top of each post.

It’s not just WordPress. When I adopted my own new Joomla! template last summer I was horrified to discover Continue Reading