runthings.dev

<p>This is a plugin which adds a simple shortcode to display the current year or a dynamic year range, particularly useful for copyright statements at the bottom of your website.</p>
<p>Its most basic usage is <code>[year]</code>, which will display the current year. If you provide a starting year with the ‘from’ parameter, it will expand into a date range when the ‘from’ year is before the current year.</p>
<p>If <code>[year]</code> is used by another plugin, then it uses the fallback <code>[runthings_year]</code> which can be customised with the <code>runthings_current_year_shortcode_tag</code> filter. You can see the active shortcode tag in it entry in the installed plugins page.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display current year with <code>[year]</code></li>
<li>Create a dynamic year range with <code>[year from="2020"]</code></li>
<li>Abbreviated year format with <code>[year from="2020" mode="short"]</code>, which shows “2020-26” (if the current year is 2026)</li>
<li>Automatic fallback shortcode <code>[runthings_year]</code> if another plugin already uses the ‘year’ shortcode</li>
<li>Filter (<code>runthings_current_year_shortcode_tag</code>) to set your own shortcode</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage Examples</h4>
<p>Assuming the current year is 2026:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>[year]</code> displays “2026”</li>
<li><code>[year from="2026"]</code> displays “2026” (since it’s the current year)</li>
<li><code>[year from="1983"]</code> displays “1983-2026”</li>
<li><code>[year from="2020" mode="short"]</code> displays “2020-26” (shortened current year)</li>
<li><code>[year from="1995" mode="short"]</code> displays “1995-2026” (not shortened because centuries differ)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Filters</h3>
<h4>runthings_current_year_shortcode_tag</h4>
<p>This filter allows customization of the shortcode tag used by the plugin.</p>
<p>For detailed documentation and examples, see the <a href="https://github.com/runthings-dev/runthings-current-year-shortcode#filters" rel="nofollow ugc">full documentation on GitHub</a>.</p>
<p>Parameters:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong><code>$tag</code></strong> (<code>string</code>): The shortcode tag to be registered. Defaults to ‘year’ or ‘runthings_year’ if conflicted.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Additional Notes</h3>
<p>Built by Matthew Harris of runthings.dev, copyright 2021-2026.</p>
<p>Visit <a href="https://runthings.dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">runthings.dev</a> for more WordPress plugins and resources.</p>
<p>Contribute or report issues at <a href="https://github.com/runthings-dev/runthings-current-year-shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html</a>.</p>
<p>Icon – Calendar by Qadeer Hussain, from Noun Project, https://thenounproject.com/browse/icons/term/calendar/ (CC BY 3.0)</p>
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Current Year Shortcode

Adds a shortcode to display the current year or a year range, perfect for copyright statements.

Gaurav Tiwari

<h3>Automate your SEO</h3>
<p>Insert dynamic dates anywhere in your WordPress content using simple shortcodes:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Years</strong>: <code>[year]</code> (current), <code>[nyear]</code> (next), <code>[pyear]</code> (previous)</li>
<li><strong>Months</strong>: <code>[month]</code> (January), <code>[mon]</code> (Jan), <code>[nmonth]</code>/<code>[pmonth]</code> (next/previous)</li>
<li><strong>Dates</strong>: <code>[date]</code> (full date), <code>[dt]</code> (day number), <code>[weekday]</code> (day name)</li>
<li><strong>Age</strong>: <code>[age date="1990-05-15"]</code> calculates years from any date</li>
<li><strong>Season</strong>: <code>[season]</code> displays current season (supports hemispheres)</li>
<li><strong>Countdowns</strong>: <code>[daysuntil date="2025-12-25"]</code> and <code>[dayssince date="2020-01-01"]</code></li>
<li><strong>Post Dates</strong>: <code>[datemodified]</code> and <code>[datepublished]</code> shortcodes.</li>
<li><strong>Event Dates</strong>: <code>[blackfriday]</code> and <code>[cybermonday]</code> shortcodes.</li>
<li><strong>Block Editor support</strong>: Toolbar to quickly insert the shortcodes, customizable date and countdown blocks.</li>
</ul>
<p>Works in posts, pages, titles, widgets, and SEO meta. Renders in your WordPress language. Perfect for affiliate marketers, bloggers, and anyone who wants evergreen content that updates automatically.</p>
<p>But that’s not it.</p>
<p><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/snippet/dynamic-month-year/#shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">See Full List of Shortcodes</a></p>
<ul>
<li>New: Display current season with <code>[season]</code> shortcode. Supports hemisphere: <code>[season region="south"]</code> for Southern hemisphere.</li>
<li>New: Calculate age with <code>[age date="1990-05-15"]</code> shortcode. Add ordinal suffix with <code>ordinal="true"</code> (e.g., “35th”).</li>
<li>New: Post dates with <code>[datemodified]</code> and <code>[datepublished]</code> shortcodes.</li>
<li>New: Event dates with <code>[blackfriday]</code> and <code>[cybermonday]</code> shortcodes.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Gutenberg Blocks</h3>
<p>Four dedicated blocks for the Block Editor:</p>
<p><strong>Dynamic Date Block</strong> – Insert any dynamic date with live preview:</p>
<ul>
<li>Select date type from dropdown (year, month, date, age, season, etc.)</li>
<li>Configure age format (years only, years & months, full breakdown)</li>
<li>Set ordinal suffix for age display</li>
<li>Typography and color controls</li>
<li>Spacing options (margin, padding)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Live Countdown Block</strong> – Real-time countdown powered by WordPress Interactivity API:</p>
<ul>
<li>Count days until or since any date</li>
<li>Auto-updates at midnight without page reload</li>
<li>Customizable label text</li>
<li>Typography and color styling</li>
<li>Perfect for event promotions and milestones</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Published Date Block</strong> – Display the post’s publication date:</p>
<ul>
<li>Uses WordPress date format from Settings</li>
<li>Custom format support</li>
<li>Typography and color controls</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Modified Date Block</strong> – Display the post’s last modified date:</p>
<ul>
<li>Uses WordPress date format from Settings</li>
<li>Custom format support</li>
<li>Typography and color controls</li>
</ul>
<p>All blocks are found under “Widgets” category in the Block Inserter. Plus, a toolbar button in the formatting toolbar lets you quickly insert any shortcode into text blocks.</p>
<h3>Works with popular SEO Plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supports RankMath, Yoast and SEOPress plugins and can be used to replace all their date based variables.</li>
<li><code>[year]</code> works as a replacement to <code>%currentyear%</code> , <code>[month]</code> as a replacement to <code>%currentmonth%</code> already.</li>
<li>Use various combinations to make your articles even more dynamic and make your content always SEO ready — no matter the date or year.</li>
<li>Extremely useful for Affiliate Marketers, Amazon Affiliates and Copywriters.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Tested Support With</h4>
<ul>
<li>Rank Math</li>
<li>Rank Math Pro</li>
<li>SEOPress</li>
<li>SEOPress Premium</li>
<li>Yoast SEO</li>
<li>Yoast SEO Premium</li>
<li>SureRank</li>
<li>Gutenberg and Block Editor Content, Headings and Buttons</li>
<li><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/best-gutenberg-blocks-plugins-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">All popular Block Editor Addons</a>, including Greenshift, GenerateBlocks, Ultimate Blocks, Kadence Blocks, Spectra, Otter Blocks.</li>
<li>Elementor Page Builder</li>
<li>WP Bakery Page Builder</li>
<li>Visual Composer</li>
<li>Beaver Builder</li>
<li>Brizy Builder</li>
<li>Oxygen Builder</li>
<li>Bricks Builder</li>
<li>Jetpack Related Posts</li>
<li>Intelly Related Posts a.k.a. Inline Related Posts (IRP)</li>
<li>Advanced Custom Fields (Manual: please see the FAQs)</li>
<li>Lightweight Accordion (including Schema)</li>
<li>All major themes including Twenty Twenty-Five, Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Three, Twenty Twenty-Two, Twenty Twenty-One, Twenty Twenty, Astra, Neve, Hello (Elementor), Kadence, GeneratePress, Blocksy, and OceanWP.</li>
</ul>
<p>Tested to be totally working with Yoast SEO, SEOPress and Rank Math’s breadcrumbs, custom meta titles, excerpt etc.</p>
<p>Note: Since August 2021, Google has started showing h1 titles in search results, this plugin becomes even more useful as no other SEO plugins adds Current Month, Current Year or Today’s Date in h1 titles except this; keeping the same in SEO meta as well.</p>
<h3>More features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Full Rank Math OpenGraph Support.</li>
<li>Full Schema and OpenGraph support in YoastSEO.</li>
<li>Multiple Langauge (WPML) Support: Shortcode renders your site’s defined language.</li>
<li>Contextual Related Posts Support.</li>
<li>Jetpack Related Posts Support.</li>
<li>Totally native. Doesn’t write anything to the database.</li>
<li>No configuration required.</li>
<li>Cache friendly.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Easy to use</h3>
<p>Just install the plugin (see Installation tab) and activate it. Add [year] to render current year, [nyear] to render next year, [pyear] to render previous year, [month] to render current month (full name) and [mon] to render first three letters of months automatically. <a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/snippet/dynamic-month-year/#shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">See Full List of Shortcodes</a> (You can also see this link in <em>Plugins</em> page in your WordPress dashboard).</p>
<p>As the months & years change, these shortcodes get updated into the content and title automatically on the shortcode locations.</p>
<p>Zero bloat. No CSS/JS files loaded. No database queries are made and the content is rendered on-the-fly. I am a performance geek and digital marketer myself, so I understand what you need. Please use a <a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/best-wordpress-caching-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress cache plugin</a> to cache the rendered content.</p>
<p>Also, Dynamic Month & Year into Posts is a totally free plugin. There are no upsells and will never be.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/snippet/dynamic-month-year/" rel="nofollow ugc">More details</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dynamic-month-year-into-posts/" rel="ugc">Free Support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/code/" rel="nofollow ugc">More WordPress Plugins and Web Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/wordpress-deals/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Deals</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Request a Feature</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Dynamic Month & Year into Posts by <a href="https://gauravtiwari.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Gaurav Tiwari</a> is a completely native shortcode plugin. It has no settings page and does not use any analytics tool to gather or use your data. It’s bloat and ad-free. No notifications. No upgrade notices. Nothing.</p>
<h3>Fast Support and Feature Implementation</h3>
<p>I will provide instant support for all your queries or feature requests. Use <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dynamic-month-year-into-posts/" rel="ugc">support forum</a> to ask your questions, request new features or report something broken. I will also update the plugin for every major and minor WordPress version.</p>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>I use the plugin myself on <a href="https://gauravtiwari.org" rel="nofollow ugc">my primary website</a> and other client sites that I run. I try my best to ensure that this plugin is compatible with every functionality plugin you use. Please let me know if this plugin isn’t compatible with your stack, create a support request and allow me some time.</p>
<p>Please note that some plugins strip shortcodes or disable rendering of shortcodes. In such cases, it’s impossible to implement dynamic dates without rewriting the whole plugin code and breaking a couple of things. But still, I’ll give a try.</p>
<p>Help me with a positive review to keep the development going.</p>


Dynamic Month & Year into Posts

Plugin does exactly what it says, nothing more and nothing less.

Simple and useful plugin

Great plugin but I did notice two issues.

1) The WebPage name in Yoast Schema doesn't get processed correctly. You can fix that with this:

add_filter('wpseo_schema_webpage', function($data) {
    $data['name'] = do_shortcode($data['name']);

    return $data;
});


2) If you use the Grow Social by Mediavine plugin then the meta tags will not be processed correctly either (will just show [year] etc). An easy fix is to check the option "Disable Open Graph Meta Tags" in Grow Social's settings. Since I'm using Yoast I don't think it was really doing anything anyways.

Works great


It solves the problme for recuring posts. 



Gaurav is supper fast in responding to support requests too! 


Plugin and support rock!

Automate SEO and content with dynamic shortcodes for dates, years, months, age calculations, seasons and countdowns in content, titles and meta.

Current Year Shortcode vs Dynamic Month & Year into Posts