Pluginjoy

The lightest, fastest and most beautiful local-time plugin for WordPress. Drop one shortcode and every visitor instantly sees your dates in their own timezone — including automatic daylight-saving handling.
<pre><code>[gtg_time date="2025-12-25 15:00:00"] → December 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM (their local time)
[gtg_time date="2025-08-20 14:00:00" format="g:i A (T)"] → 4:00 PM (CEST)
</code></pre>
<h4>Perfect for</h4>
<ul>
<li>Flash sales & limited offers</li>
<li>Webinars & live streams</li>
<li>Course launches</li>
<li>Event sites</li>
<li>Global WooCommerce stores</li>
<li>Webinar landing pages</li>
</ul>
<h4>Free features (everything you need to get started)</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>[gtg_time]</code> and <code>[local_time]</code> shortcodes</li>
<li>Full Gutenberg block (“Local Time”)</li>
<li>Beautiful purple badge with hover effect (or plain text)</li>
<li>Automatic timezone detection via the browser (Intl API + cookie)</li>
<li>Real conversion + unique-timezone stats on the admin dashboard</li>
<li>Works perfectly with WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, Cloudflare, SiteGround, Kinsta — all caches & CDNs</li>
<li>No JavaScript loaded on pages without the shortcode (~4 KB total)</li>
<li>Zero configuration — works out of the box</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro version — premium AI included</h4>
<a href="https://pluginjoy.com/product/global-time-ghost-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Global Time Ghost Pro</a> builds on the free plugin with AI-powered scheduling and deep WooCommerce / Events Calendar / LearnDash integration.
<ul>
<li>AI Optimal Posting Times — per-timezone publish recommendations (powered by Claude Sonnet 4.6)</li>
<li>AI Smart Scheduling — auto-schedule posts at the right local time for each region</li>
<li>AI Multi-Region Variants — region-aware copy generation for sales, events and webinars</li>
<li>WooCommerce auto-convert — order, sale and deadline times in every visitor’s clock</li>
<li>The Events Calendar + LearnDash — full auto-conversion across event and course pages</li>
<li>Custom badge colors + timezone dropdown widget + conversion analytics</li>
<li>Premium AI credits included with every Pro plan (50 / 200 / 1000 per month). Credits are shared with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/a11y-enhancer/" rel="ugc">SiteFix Pro</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/clarity-seo/" rel="ugc">Clarity SEO Pro</a>.</li>
<li>Priority support — 24-hour response on business days</li>
<li>30-day money-back guarantee</li>
</ul>
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Global Time Ghost – Local Time Converter

Show every visitor your event, sale and deadline times in their own timezone — automatically. Works with all caches & CDNs.

rjl20

Most people don’t need this plugin. Most wouldn’t notice a difference if they had it. All it does is change the default sort order of a WP_Query from posts.post_date to posts.post_date_gmt — that is, sort on the GMT timestamp of a post rather than the local time zone.
Who needs this? People who switch time zones frequently. People running a network installation of WordPress where they want to be able to aggregate posts from all their network blogs easily, and in the right order. I don’t know. I wrote it for FreeThoughtBlogs.com, so their “most recent posts” sidebar would stop showing only posts from a few blogs in early time zones. If it works for you, great.
I have every hope that this plugin will be made obsolete by the default sort order being changed in the WordPress core. I can think of no good reason why comments are sorted by GMT but posts by local time.
For all I know, this plugin works with older versions than 3.0. I’ve only tested it with 3.2.1.

Posts by GMT

Changes the default sort order for posts from post_date to post_date_gmt.

Global Time Ghost – Local Time Converter vs Posts by GMT