Auto increased dates through the power of shortcores and Magic Dates plugin!
Author: | Gerasimos Tsiamalos (profile at wordpress.org) |
WordPress version required: | 5.0 |
WordPress version tested: | 5.4.1 |
Plugin version: | 1.3 |
Added to WordPress repository: | 03-11-2011 |
Last updated: | 02-06-2020
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Rating, %: | 100 |
Rated by: | 4 |
Plugin URI: | http://www.cssigniter.com |
Total downloads: | 2 156 |
Active installs: | 200+ |
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If you are like me, you are probably responsible for updating content in (some) of your clients’ sites. Have you ever had pieces of content like these:
- “This is my 8th year in this industry […]”
- “Our little shop is up and running for 11 years […]”
- “9 years ago we decided to open our shop […]”
Then, at some point next year your client calls and tells you to update the “11 years” to “12 years”. Wouldn’t be great if these number could be auto-increased?
And that’s where “Magic Dates” comes to play.
How to use it:
Whenever you find yourself writing content in the editor, at the moment that you need an auto-increased number of years use the plugin like this:
(Example current year: 2020)
[magicdate]2005[/magicdate] => This will produce 15
If you want an ordinal number (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) use it like this:
[magicdate ordinalize=’true’]2008[/magicdate] => This will produce 12th
Use the [magicdays]YYYY-mm-dd[/magicdays] shortcode to calculate the number of days between today and the given date
Easy eh?