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Is it possible to use other date variables, than entry_date, week_date like edit_date, expiration_date or custom date in the date_heading?

For example:

{date_heading display="monthly"}
<h1>{expiration_date format="%Y %m"}</h1>
{/date_heading}

or to be more a more precise example

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="orders" orderby="expiration_date" sort="desc" show_expired="yes"}
    {date_heading display="monthly"}<h2>{expiration_date format="%F %Y"}</h2><p>{/date_heading}<br />
    {title}, ({expiration_date format="%d %F %Y"})</p>

<p>{/exp:weblog:entries}

This gives the right entries, but repeats the date heading in a sporadic way. Maybe I am missing something but I have tried this with custom date field, edit_date and as you see with expiration_date but it only works for me if used with entry_date.

Any help or advice appreciated.
Thanks

No, the date heading will only work with the entry_date. I suppose a few lines of PHP could do it (basically, in the case of “monthly” you’d want to write the month in a variable, then compare with the value from the previous round of the loop, and only print it if they are different—making sense?), otherwise I would recommend a feature request.

Thank you Ingmar. Will try withyn some llop and let you know how that went.

Very good. Just let me move this over to Howto. Perhaps an FR might still be a good idea? 😊