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Dynamic Month & Year into Posts

Tired of manually updating years in your WordPress posts? This free plugin automatically inserts the current month and year anywhere you need it. Write once, never update again.…

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1.5.3

Dynamic Month & Year into Posts v1.5.3

Installation

  1. Download the ZIP file below
  2. Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
  3. Upload the ZIP file and activate

What’s New

See the changelog for details.

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1.5.2

Dynamic Month & Year into Posts v1.5.2

Installation

  1. Download the ZIP file below
  2. Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
  3. Upload the ZIP file and activate

What’s New

See the changelog for details.

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1.5.1

Dynamic Month & Year into Posts v1.5.1

Installation

  1. Download the ZIP file below
  2. Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
  3. Upload the ZIP file and activate

What’s New

See the changelog for details.

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1.5.0

Dynamic Month & Year into Posts v1.5.0

Installation

  1. Download the ZIP file below
  2. Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
  3. Upload the ZIP file and activate

What’s New

See the changelog for details.

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1.4.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/wpgaurav/dynamic-month-year-into-posts/compare/1.3.8…1.4.0

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1.3.8

1.3.8 New: 26 and 24 display next and previous dates (number only). 1.3.7 New: October 2026 and August 2026 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 2026 to display any year next or previous to this year. For example 2031 renders 5th year from now and 2021 renders 5th year back from today. 1.3.4 Two new useful shortcodes. Post modified/updated date: September 25, 2026 and post publication date: September 25, 2026. Use these anywhere you want to make your site more dynamic and SEO friendly.

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1.3.3

1.3.3 – Revert some changes

1.3.2 – Full Yoast SEO Support. Finally. – Optimized Code – SEOPress Support complete

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1.3.1

1.3.1 – Date change for Black Friday and Cyber Monday dates

1.3.0 – New: November 27 and November 30 shortcodes render this years Black Fridy and Cyber Monday dates like November 25 and November 28. Couple these with 2026 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 the rendering of next month. September 2026 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 September 2026 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

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1.2.5

Added: Friday shortcode renders day of the week like Sunday, Monday, … Added: Fri shortcode renders shortnames for days of the week like Sun, Mon,… Compatibility with 6.0.1 tested.

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1.2.4

  • Added: JSON-LD support for Yoast SEO Schema. Props to @sathoro
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1.2.3

== Changelog ==

= 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: October renders next month (full name) * New Shortcode: August renders previous month (full name) * New Shortcode: Oct renders next month (short name, like Jan, Feb) * New Shortcode: Aug 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. * New: September 25, 2026 shortcode for today’s date. * WordPress 5.6 Compatibility

= 1.0.4 = * Optimization

= 1.0.3 = * Updated Readme.txt file

= 1.0.2 = * 2025 yields previous year (e.g., 2020) * 2027 yields next year (e.g., 2022)

= 1.0.1 = * Fixed Name Conflicts

= 1.0.0 = * First version

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1.2.1

  • New Shortcodes: 09 renders month number including trailing zero (01-12)
  • New Shortcodes: 9 renders month number without trailing zero (1-12)
  • Full Jetpack Related Posts Support (Thanks Jetpack team!)