Description

Automate your SEO

Add today’s date by [date], current year by [year], previous year by [pyear], next year by [nyear], current month (like January) by [month] and current month shortname (like Jan) by [mon] shortcodes anywhere, including content and title. Use this plugin to boost your site’s SEO by using the variables anywhere.

Works with popular SEO Plugins

• Supports RankMath, Yoast and SEOPress plugins and can be used to replace all their date based variables.
• [year] works as a replacement to %currentyear% , [month] as a replacement to %currentmonth% already.
• Use various combinations to make your articles even more dynamic and make your content always SEO ready — no matter the date or year.

Supports

• Rank Math
• Rank Math Pro
• SEOPress
• SEOPress Premium
• Yoast SEO
• Yoast SEO Premium

Tested to be working with Yoast SEO, SEOPress and Rank Math’s breadcrumbs, custom meta titles, excerpt etc.

Rankmath SEO plugin is (very) recommended but not required.

More features

• Full Rank Math OpenGraph Support.
• Schema and OpenGraph support in YoastSEO.
• Multiple Langauge (WPML) Support: Shortcode renders your site’s defined language.
• Contextual Related Posts Support
• Totally native. No configuration required.

Easy to use

Just install the plugin (see Installation) 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. As the months & years change, these shortcodes get updated into the content and title automatically on the shortcode locations.

Zero bloat. No CSS/JS files loaded.

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Privacy

Dynamic Month & Year into Posts 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.

Fast Support and Feature Implementation

I will provide instant support for all your queries or feature requests. Use support forum to ask your questions, request new features or report something broken.

I will try my best to ensure that this plugin is compatible with every functionality plugin you use.

How to use it?

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 and [month] to render current month automatically. As the months & years change, they get updated into the content and title automatically on the shortcode locations. There are other shortcodes as well.

Installation

1. Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. There is no additional configuration required. There will not be any menus or settings for this plugin.

Shortcodes

• Add today’s date by [date]. Output: February 1, 2023
• Current year by [year]. Output: 2023
• Previous year by [pyear]. Output: 2022
• 2 years back from this year [ppyear] (read previous-previous year). Output: 2021
• Next year by [nyear]. Output: 2024
• 2 years from this year [nnyear] (read next-next year). Output: 2025
• Current month (February) by [month]
• Next month (like March) by [nmonth]
• Previous month (like January) by [pmonth]
• Current month shortname (like Feb) by [mon]
• Next month shortname (like Mar) by [nmon]
• Previous month shortname (like Jan) by [pmon]
• Current month in number with trailing zero (like 02) by [mm]
• Current month in number without trailing zero (like 2) by [mn]
• [dt] shortcode renders only the day of the month (like 1, 2, 3, 17, 28); Mix this with other variables to create a custom date format.
• Show current month and year together (like February 2023) by [monthyear]. Note: [monthyear] shortcode renders next month if the current month is about to end, after 28th every month.
• Capitalize a month name by prefixing c to the shortcodes, like [cmonth], [cnmonth], [cmon] and so on.
• [weekday] for today’s day of the week like Wednesday and [wd] for the short form of the day like Wed.
• [blackfriday] to show Black Friday date like November 24.
• [cybermonday] to show Cyber Monday date like November 27

Screenshots

add_filter('acf/format_value/type=text', 'do_shortcode');

<?php

function dmyip_replace_shortcode($string) {
    $replace = array( '[' => '[', ']' => ']' );
    $newstring = str_replace( array_keys( $replace ), array_values( $replace ), $string[2] );
    return $string[1] . $newstring . $string[3];
}
function dmyip_prevent_shortcode( $content ) {
	$pattern = '#(<pre.*?>|<code.*?>)(.*?)(<\/pre>|<\/code>)#imsu';
	return preg_replace_callback( $pattern, 'dmyip_replace_shortcode', $content );
}
add_filter( 'the_content', 'dmyip_prevent_shortcode', 9);