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As of April 2026, Plugin Activation Date is a WordPress plugins plugin with 300 active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Rollback – Rollback Plugins and….
Current features:
While by default the date & time settings are being used, you can always change the date format by filtering ‘pad_date_time_format’. For instance:
<?php
add_filter( 'pad_date_time_format', 'my_pad_date_time_format' );
function my_pad_date_time_format( $date_format ) {
return 'm-d-Y';
}
Here’s some more info on date & time formatting in WordPress
Feel free to post your feature requests, issues and pull requests to Plugin Activation Date on GitHub.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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