A simple plugin that returns the current date/time in a variety of different ways.
This simple plugin makes it possible to insert the current date, time or date & time related information into your website. This is very handy if you are manually updating the date & time information and want to do this automatically in the future.
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plugin-name.php
to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory<?php do_action('plugin_name_hook'); ?>
in your templates and use the ‘format’ argument to display the current date and time information in a number of different ways.Simply insert the following code into your post to display the current year.
[datetool_current format=”Y”]
This displays: 2013
For a complete reference and combinations you can visit this page: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
Some examples…
Shortcode: [datetool_current format=”Y”]
Output: 2013 (or what the current year is)
Shortcode: [datetool_current format=”d”]
Output: 16 (or what number the current day is)
Shortcode: [datetool_current format=”jS F Y”]
Output: 24th June 2013 (or what number the current date is)
2013-06-23 Plugin created.