# Trying to use datapicker field to show abbreviated month in Yoast meta description **URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/trying-to-use-datapicker-field-to-show-abbreviated-month-in-yoast-meta-description/19164 **Category:** plugins **Created:** 2020-09-22T02:52:24Z **Posts:** 1 ## Post 1 by @tam2000k2 — 2020-09-22T02:52:24Z Sorry if this is not the proper place to post this, but you guys seem to be the only ones that ever help and I thank you in advance. My boss has to have an abbreviated month listed with the yoast meta description field. Currently, I can use %%currentmonth%% and I will see September, but he wants the abbreviated month. As I continued to read the documentation, I could see that I could use %%cf\_\%%, which I did exactly that, %%cf\_short\_date%% - that is the name of my acf date\_picker “short\_date” and it is set to M in the custom section, which produces “Sep” ![image](https://discourse.roots.io/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3a8b2d83ea36b72f5d7187e7bf0857043f83cf57.png) Sure enough, it shows “Sep” within the post edit page ![image](https://discourse.roots.io/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5378d17a0907a017f0ed10a1a9143c3f2b6ccfd7.png) In Yoast, it looks like the following, which I read on other posts that it may not display correctly in Yoast on the backend, but it should be fine on the front end - nope: ![image](https://discourse.roots.io/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3e179026536527a71445e341aac3dd688f295712.png) Since yoast meta description is set to %%cf\_short\_date%%, then it should work correct? No, I do not understand. ![image](https://discourse.roots.io/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e9d43a43e2404654ee759cc170d290ccd99ea291.png) --- ## Post 2 by @system — 2020-11-03T02:52:27Z This topic was automatically closed after 42 days. New replies are no longer allowed.