Dynamic Month & Year into Posts

• What's Changed
• Fixed Recurring February 29 countdowns now produce the same valid leap-day result in PHP and the browser.
• Fixed Invalid countdown dates no longer display as zero days, and the default day label is plural-aware.
• Fixed WP-CLI accepts both complete plugin shortcodes and date types with named options.
• Improved Added WordPress 7.1 compatibility, content-role block metadata, current dependency security fixes and wider runtime checks.
• Improved Corrected countdown, editor, cache, pattern and WP-CLI documentation.
• Commits
• Release 1.8.1 (5e79c05)

• What's Changed
• Added Recurring, cache-aware Live Countdown block with leap-day handling and Block Bindings presets.
• Improved All date calculations now use the WordPress site timezone and calendar-day arithmetic across daylight-saving changes.
• Improved Searchable shortcode picker, block previews, toolbar accessibility, responsive editor controls and theme-neutral patterns.
• Improved Shortcode processing in titles, excerpts and supported integrations is limited to this plugin's tags.
• Fixed Countdown Interactivity API code now ships as a JavaScript module.
• Changed Minimum supported WordPress version is 6.5.
• Changed Removed duplicate legacy runtime files and consolidated rendering around one date engine.
• Commits
• Release 1.8.0 (1f27f44)
• Prepare 1.8.0-beta (47a2613)
• Fix WordPress.org release tag version (38662fe)

• What's Changed
• Changed Tested up to WordPress 7.0.
• Commits
• Prepare release 1.7.4 (57c2bb3)
• Bump axios from 1.13.2 to 1.15.0 (7326802)

• What's Changed
• Fix [season] shortcode not working in legacy (non-Composer) installations.
• Fix [age] shortcode missing ordinal/rank attributes in legacy installations.
• Fix Duplicate Open Graph filter registrations in legacy Rank Math integration.
• Fix Duplicate Elementor and CRP filter registrations in legacy SEOPress file.
• Commits
• fix add missing [season] and [age] ordinal to legacy path, remove duplicate filters (7f31e2a)

• What's Changed
• New Bricks Builder integration — shortcodes now render inside Bricks dynamic data elements.
• New Published Date and Modified Date Gutenberg blocks.
• New dmyip_core_filters filter to selectively disable shortcode processing on WordPress core filters (titles, excerpts, archive titles). Props @meteorlxy.
• Improved Release workflow auto-generates changelogs and attaches them to GitHub releases.
• Fix [year] shortcode with large negative offsets (e.g., [year n=-2003]) now returns correct results instead of wrong/empty values.
• Fix [year] shortcode no longer zero-pads results (e.g., [year n=-1100] returns 926 instead of 0926).
• Commits
• chore: add .wordpress-org assets directory with banners, icons, and screenshots for SVN deploy (8ee2c56)
• feat: add WordPress.org SVN deploy job to release workflow (538319f)
• fix remove composer.lock copy from release workflow (file is gitignored) (bdc55c7)
• feat: Add Bricks Builder support, improve release workflow, bump to 1.7.2 (3f55e7c)

• Changed
• Removed the license manager from the plugin.
• Refactored core shortcode-processing filters.
• Fixed
• Corrected the year shortcode output when using negative offsets.
• Maintenance
• Standardized production packaging and release verification.

• What's Changed
• Bump lodash-es from 4.17.22 to 4.17.23
• Bump ws and @wordpress/scripts
• Bump lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.17.23
• Bump qs from 6.14.1 to 6.14.2

• More PHP 7.4 improvements

• Fix Countdown timer was not compatible with < PHP8

• New [age] shortcode to calculate and display age from a birth date. Supports three formats:
• New 6 additional Block Patterns - Age Display Card, Birthday Countdown, Experience Badge, New Year Countdown, Days Since Milestone, and Promotional Banner with CTA.
• New Shortcodes inserted via toolbar are now highlighted with orange background in the editor for better visibility.
• New Toolbar dropdown now shows usage examples for shortcodes with arguments.
• Improved Dynamic Date block now supports age calculation with configurable format options.

• Installation
• Download the ZIP file below
• Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
• Upload the ZIP file and activate
• What's New: See the changelog for details.

• Installation
• Download the ZIP file below
• Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
• Upload the ZIP file and activate
• What's New: See the changelog for details.

• Installation
• Download the ZIP file below
• Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
• Upload the ZIP file and activate
• What's New: See the changelog for details.

• Installation
• Download the ZIP file below
• Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
• Upload the ZIP file and activate
• What's New: See the changelog for details.

• Installation
• Download the ZIP file below
• Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
• Upload the ZIP file and activate
• What's New: See the changelog for details.

• Installation
• Download the ZIP file below
• Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
• Upload the ZIP file and activate
• What's New: See the changelog for details.

• Improved
• Preserved the plugin's date shortcodes when WordPress strips other shortcodes from excerpts.
• Organized shortcode rendering and integration filters into separate modules for core content, page builders, and SEO plugins.
• Included shortcode handling for archive titles and supported SEO metadata.

1.3.8 New: [nd] and [pd] display next and previous dates (number only). 1.3.7 New: [nmonthyear] and [pmonthyear] 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 [year n=number] to display any year next or previous to this year. For example [year n=5] renders 5th year from now and [year n=-5] renders 5th year back from today. 1.3.4 Two new useful shortcodes. Post modified/updated date: [datemodified] and post publication date: [datepublished]. Use these anywhere you want to make your site more dynamic and SEO friendly.

1.3.3 - Revert some changes

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

1.3.1 - Date change for Black Friday and Cyber Monday dates

1.3.0 - New: [blackfriday] and [cybermonday] shortcodes render this years Black Fridy and Cyber Monday dates like November 25 and November 28. Couple these with [year] 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. [monthyear] 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 [monthyear] 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

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

= 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: [nmonth] renders next month (full name) * New Shortcode: [pmonth] renders previous month (full name) * New Shortcode: [nmon] renders next month (short name, like Jan, Feb) * New Shortcode: [pmon] 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: [date] shortcode for today's date. * WordPress 5.6 Compatibility

= 1.0.4 = * Optimization

= 1.0.3 = * Updated Readme.txt file

= 1.0.2 = * [pyear] yields previous year (e.g., 2020) * [nyear] yields next year (e.g., 2022)

= 1.0.1 = * Fixed Name Conflicts

= 1.0.0 = * First version

• 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!)

Changes: = 1.2.0 = * WordPress 5.8 Support * New Shortcode: [nmonth] renders next month (full name) * New Shortcode: [pmonth] renders previous month (full name) * New Shortcode: [nmon] renders next month (short name, like Jan, Feb) * New Shortcode: [pmon] 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_qeury 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.

• NEW! [mon] shortcode to render only the first three-letters of Month, like Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr etc.
• Tested with WordPress 5.8 Beta

• New SEOPress Support

1.0.6 - New: Yoast SEO Support 1.0.5 - Multiple Language Support: Shortcode renders your site’s defined language. - New: [date] shortcode for today’s date. - WordPress 5.6 Compatibility

• pyear yields previous year (e.g., 2021)
• nyear yields next year (e.g., 2023)

• Refactor code.
• Attempted a fix for Rank Math SEO JSON and Excerpts.

• New [nmonthyear] and [pmonthyear] display next and previous month and years together. Useful in many cases.

• Shortcode support in Archive Titles.

• Made Black Friday and Cyber Monday dates totally dynamic and auto-updating.
• Use [year n=number] to display any year next or previous to this year. For example [year n=5] renders 5th year from now and [year n=-5] renders 5th year back from today.

• Two new useful shortcodes. Post modified/updated date: [datemodified] and post publication date: [datepublished]. Use these anywhere you want to make your site more dynamic and SEO friendly.

• Full Yoast SEO Support. Finally.
• Optimized Code
• SEOPress Support complete

• New [blackfriday] and [cybermonday] shortcodes render this years Black Fridy and Cyber Monday dates like November 25 and November 28. Couple these with [year] to make the dates complete. See this example
• Intelly Related Posts a.k.a. IRP support.

• Readme update.

• Fixed some issues related to rendering of next month.
• [monthyear] 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.

• Fix rendering of [monthyear] shortcode in languages other than English.

• New Full Elementor Support. Now the shortcodes should render in all core and Elementor Pro widgets

• 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.

• 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.

• Revert back some of the changes in 1.1.6

• Bug fix

• 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.

• Updated Readme.txt and Instructions

• Bug fixes.

• Bug fixes.
• New Rank Math OpenGraph Support

• Improved Schema and OpenGraph support in YoastSEO.
• Work in Progress: Full Schema and OpenGraph support in Rank Math
• Removed Rank Math recommendation.

• New Contextual Related Posts Support

• Multiple Langauge Support: Shortcode renders your site's defined language.
• New [date] shortcode for today's date.
• WordPress 5.6 Compatibility

• Optimization

• Updated Readme.txt file

• Fixed Name Conflicts

• First version