A simple way to turn your post/comment date in its relative versions.
As of April 2026, Simple Relative Date is a WordPress date plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Meta and Date Remover.
This was based on Lester Chan’s Relative Date plugin.
It tries to simplify things a bit. This plugin can:
Note that if your theme is writing the date in a different form, it won’t work. You have to
replace its function call to one of the above (in the TwentyTen theme for example, replace twentyten_posted_on()
by the_date().
Also important to say that, comment replacement won’t work if you are using the default wp comment renderer because
it calls get_comment_time() as well. You have to do a customized callback function to use with
wp_list_comments( array( ‘callback’ => ‘your_customized_function_here’ ) ). (ok, maybe things were not
simplified that much…
| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 3.0.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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