Today's Date Inserter
Simply and quickly add the current date and or time to your wordpress posts or pages using a shortcode Date widget also included
The facts
- Rating
- 4.3★ from 6
- Active installs
- 700+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 19 Aug 2014
- Added
- Apr 2014
- Requires WP
- 3.0.1
- Tested up to
- WP 3.9.40
- Downloads
- 11,671
Our analysis
AI-assistedToday's Date Inserter is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add the current date and time to your posts using a shortcode. By inserting the shortcode [todaysdate], it will be replaced with the current date and/or time according to your specified format settings. You can also use a format string directly in the shortcode to customize the output.
Additionally, the plugin includes a widget that displays the current date, which can also be customised with a PHP date format string. It uses the timezone settings from WordPress to ensure accurate time display.
Best for: This plugin suits users who want to display the current date and time on their WordPress posts and pages.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Allows custom date and time formatting
- ✓Includes a widget for displaying today's date
- ✓Uses WordPress timezone settings for accuracy
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in August 2014
- •Tested only up to WordPress version 3.9.40
- •Directory score of 49/100 indicates potential issues
Verdict
Today's Date Inserter provides a straightforward way to include the current date and time in your content, but its outdated status may affect compatibility with newer WordPress versions.
From the developer
mulscully's own description of Today's Date Inserter, lightly tidied.
Simply and quickly add the current date and or time to your wordpress posts by using a simple shortcode in the text of your page or post. Simply use the short code [todaysdate] in your text and when the post or page is displayed, [todaysdate] will be replaced by the current date and/or time that you defined on the settings screen.
You can also override the default format by including the format string in the shortcode.
For example, if you placed the following text in your post and your format string was set to l, F jS Y
-> Thank you for visiting my site today [todaysdate].
The date would be displayed as
-> Thank you for visiting my site today Wednesday, April 23rd 2014.
Here how to override he default setting by including the format string in the shortcode
[todaysdate format=”F Y”] would display April 2014 no matter what the default was set to.
This plugin also includes a Today’s date widget. This widget has it’s own default format, but can be overridden by and valid php date format string
The plugin also uses the timezone settings from wordpress to display the time and date.