A lightweight plugin that provides shortcodes for the current, Year, Month, Day, Time and more.
As of April 2026, Current Date Free is a WordPress date plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 5.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Meta and Date Remover.
A lightweight plugin that provides shortcodes for the current, Year, Month, Day, Time and more.
[lwcd display=”F jS”] would output January 24th
[lwcd display=”h:i:s A”] would output 05:56:48 AM
[lwcd display=”\T\o\d\a\y \i\s \t\h\e z \d\a\y \o\f o.”] would output Today is the 23 day of 2021.
Today is the [lwcd display=”z”] day of [lwcd display=”o”]. would output Today is the 23 day of 2021.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 5.6.17 |
| PHP | 5.0+ required |
2.0 – Major update to shortcode structure, can now return any php date(). Notice of legacy shotcode being removed with next update.
1.2 – Fix admin page display errors
1.1 – Updated function name for publication compliance
1.0 – Initial release
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