title: How to get first 3 characters from ACF date picker month?
body: <p>I'm trying to format the date I get returned from the ACF date picker field. Currently it returns the date as ('F d, y') and is shown as October 16, 2018. However I would like it to be shown as Oct 16, 2018.</p>
  
  <p>Basicly strip the month string to only show the first 3 characters. Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p><strong>View:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>@if(!empty($posts))
      @include('layouts.posts', $posts)
  @else
    &lt;p&gt;No Events to show&lt;/p&gt;
  @endif
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>layouts.posts:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="post-items"&gt;
      @if ( count($posts) &gt; 0)
        @foreach ($posts as $key =&gt; $post)
          &lt;div class="post-item" &gt;
              @if ($post['date'] != '')
                  &lt;div class="post-item__date"&gt;
                      {!! $post['date'] !!}
                  &lt;/div&gt;
              @endif
              {!! $post['content']!!}
        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- .post-item --&gt;
        @endforeach
      @endif
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Controller:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>public function posts() {
  $posts = [];
  
  foreach ($this-&gt;wp_query-&gt;posts as $key =&gt; $post) {
  
      $posts[$key]['date'] = get_field('acf__event_date', $post-&gt;ID);
      $posts[$key]['content'] =
                  '
              &lt;h2&gt;'.$post-&gt;post_title.'&lt;/h2&gt;
              &lt;p&gt;'.wp_trim_words(get_post_field('post_content', $post-&gt;ID), 30).'&lt;/p&gt;
              &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="'.get_permalink($post-&gt;ID).'" class="button"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;';
  }
  
  return $posts;
  }
  </code></pre>