[age date=”1990-05-15″ rank=”true”] – Alias for ordinal
Improved: Proper handling of special ordinals (11th, 12th, 13th)
1.6.2
More PHP 7.4 improvements
1.6.1
Fix: Countdown timer was not compatible with < PHP8
1.6.0
New: [age] shortcode to calculate and display age from a birth date. Supports three formats:
[age date=”1990-05-15″] – Years only (e.g., “34”)
[age date=”1990-05-15″ format=”ym”] – Years and months (e.g., “34 years, 7 months”)
[age date=”1990-05-15″ format=”ymd”] – Full age (e.g., “34 years, 7 months, 12 days”)
New: 6 additional Block Patterns – Age Display Card, Birthday Countdown, Experience Badge, New Year Countdown, Days Since Milestone, and Promotional Banner with CTA.
New: Shortcodes inserted via toolbar are now highlighted with orange background in the editor for better visibility.
New: Toolbar dropdown now shows usage examples for shortcodes with arguments.
Improved: Dynamic Date block now supports age calculation with configurable format options.
1.5.0
New: [daysuntil] and [dayssince] countdown shortcodes for calculating days until/since a specific date.
New: Block Editor toolbar button for quick shortcode insertion.
New: Dynamic Dates sidebar panel with complete shortcode reference and copy buttons.
New: GitHub Actions workflow for automated plugin releases.
1.4.0
More improvements. props @meteorlxy
1.3.9
Refactor code.
Attempted a fix for Rank Math SEO JSON and Excerpts.
1.3.8
New: [nd] and [pd] display next and previous dates (number only).
1.3.7
New: [nmonthyear] and [pmonthyear] display next and previous month and years together. Useful in many cases.
1.3.6
Shortcode support in Archive Titles.
1.3.5
Made Black Friday and Cyber Monday dates totally dynamic and auto-updating.
Use [year n=number] to display any year next or previous to this year. For example [year n=5] renders 5th year from now and [year n=-5] renders 5th year back from today.
1.3.4
Two new useful shortcodes. Post modified/updated date: [datemodified] and post publication date: [datepublished]. Use these anywhere you want to make your site more dynamic and SEO friendly.
1.3.3
Revert some changes
1.3.2
Full Yoast SEO Support. Finally.
Optimized Code
SEOPress Support complete
1.3.1
Date change for Black Friday and Cyber Monday dates
1.3.0
New: [blackfriday] and [cybermonday] shortcodes render this years Black Fridy and Cyber Monday dates like November 25 and November 28. Couple these with [year] to make the dates complete. See this example
Intelly Related Posts a.k.a. IRP support.
1.2.9
Readme update.
1.2.8
Fixed some issues related to rendering of next month.
[monthyear] no longer prints next month after 28th. Reason: User experience, as the user may be tricked to thinking the wrong current month and year names.
1.2.7
Fix rendering of [monthyear] shortcode in languages other than English.
1.2.6
New: Full Elementor Support. Now the shortcodes should render in all core and Elementor Pro widgets
1.2.5
Added: [weekday] shortcode renders day of the week like Sunday, Monday, …
Added: [wd] shortcode renders shortnames for days of the week like Sun, Mon,…
Compatibility with 6.0.1 tested.
1.2.4
Added: JSON-LD support for Yoast SEO Schema. Props to @sathoro
1.2.3
Improved: [monthyear] shortcode renders next month if the current month is about to end, after 28th every month.
1.2.2
New: Capitalize Month Names. Add c before any month based shortcode to render it capitalized. Useful in various languages where Month names are generally in small letters, like French, Swedish etc.
Example shortcodes: [cmonth], [cmon], [cnmonth], [cpmonth], [cnmon], [cpmon] etc.
New Shortcodes: [nnyear] and [ppyear] show 2 years next and previous years, like 2023 and 2019 respectively.
New Shortcode: [monthyear] shows current month and year together for specific purposes.
Better compatibility with Rank Math Pro and Elementor.
1.2.1
New Shortcodes: [mm] renders month number including trailing zero (01-12)
New Shortcodes: [mn] renders month number without trailing zero (1-12)
Full Jetpack Related Posts Support (Thanks Jetpack team!)
1.2.0
WordPress 5.8 Support
New Shortcode: [nmonth] renders next month (full name)
New Shortcode: [pmonth] renders previous month (full name)
New Shortcode: [nmon] renders next month (short name, like Jan, Feb)
New Shortcode: [pmon] renders previous month (short name, like Dec, Nov)
1.1.9
IMPROVED! Performance by removing rank_math/paper/auto_generated_description/apply_shortcode filter that causes more load on sites, specially where wp_query is used.
This is first of many attempts to remove unnecessary elements.
1.1.8
Revert back some of the changes in 1.1.6
1.1.7
Bug fix
1.1.6
NEW! [dt] shortcode to render only the day of the month (like 1, 2, 3, 17, 28). Combine this with other shortcodes to create date formats you desire.
Added support for shortcodes in Rank Math’s Product schema description
IMPROVED! [date] shortcode renders date as set by Dashboard -> Settings -> General -> Date.
1.1.5
NEW! [mon] shortcode to render only the first three-letters of Month, like Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr etc.
Tested with WordPress 5.8 Beta
1.1.2
Updated Readme.txt and Instructions
1.1.1
Bug fixes.
1.1.0
Bug fixes.
New: Rank Math OpenGraph Support
1.0.9
Improved: Schema and OpenGraph support in YoastSEO.
Work in Progress: Full Schema and OpenGraph support in Rank Math
Removed: Rank Math recommendation.
1.0.8
New: Contextual Related Posts Support
1.0.7
New: SEOPress Support
1.0.6
New: Yoast SEO Support
1.0.5
Multiple Langauge Support: Shortcode renders your site’s defined language.
