ben poland

This plugin allows a user to display the current date to the user via a shortcode in any place that a shortcode is usable.
Styling of the date will be the result of styling the shortcode itself. For example if the shortcode is written in bold, blue text, 
then the date will show up as bold, blue text
The formatting of the date is accomplished by changing the date format in the WordPress Admin Dashboard under Settings->General. Future 
releases of this plugin will allow formatting via the shortcode.
[date today]
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Today's Date

Display The Current Date In A Customizable Format

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Simply and quickly add the current date and or time to your wordpress posts by using a simple shortcode in the text of your page or post. Simply use the short code [todaysdate] in your text and when the post or page is displayed, [todaysdate] will be replaced by the current date and/or time that you defined on the settings screen.
You can also override the default format by including the format string in the shortcode.
For example, if you placed the following text in your post and your format string was set to l, F jS Y 
-> Thank you for visiting my site today [todaysdate].
The date would be displayed as 
-> Thank you for visiting my site today Wednesday, April 23rd 2014.
Here how to override he default setting by including the format string in the shortcode
[todaysdate format=”F Y”] would display April 2014 no matter what the default was set to.
This plugin also includes a Today’s date widget. This widget has it’s own default format, but can be overridden by and valid php date format string
The plugin also uses the timezone settings from wordpress to display the time and date.

Today's Date Inserter

Simply and quickly add the current date and or time to your wordpress posts or pages using a shortcode Date widget also included

Today's Date vs Today's Date Inserter