Grade D

Shortcode for Current Date

Name: Shortcode for Current Date
Rating: 5.0 (115 reviews)
Author: Imtiaz Rayhan

⤓ Download v2.2.2 on WordPress.org ↗

by Imtiaz Rayhanupdated 2025-12-22⚠️The Handle-With-Care

A tiny date tool that might occasionally break your site.

Declining

53/100

This simple tool provides date shortcodes but suffers from broken updates and SEO issues.

Loved22/40

Trustworthy7/15

Fair & Honest14/15

Maintained15/18

Momentum2/12

Composite 60, adjusted to 53 (×0.88) for a low verified rating or signs of review manipulation.

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

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add_shortcode( 'current_date', function( $atts ) {
    $atts = shortcode_atts( [
        'format' => 'jS F Y',
        'size'   => '',
        'color'  => '',
    ], $atts, 'current_date' );

    $date = date_i18n( $atts['format'] );

    if ( $atts['size'] || $atts['color'] ) {
        $style = '';
        if ( $atts['size'] )  $style .= 'font-size:' . esc_attr( $atts['size'] ) . ';';
        if ( $atts['color'] ) $style .= 'color:' . esc_attr( $atts['color'] ) . ';';
        return '<span style="' . $style . '">' . esc_html( $date ) . '</span>';
    }

    return esc_html( $date );
} );

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Active installs

~15,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+

Rating

5.0★

115 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

-42%

Declining fast

69 → 40 installs/day

What to watch out for

MAJORnear-100% 5★ in bursty pattern
MINORdownloads down 42% vs a year ago

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Declining fast · -42% in the last year

69/day a year ago→40/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Shortcode for Current Date is generally praised for its simplicity and reliability, but a few users have reported issues with page-title rendering and a problematic update.

What people like

+Easy and straightforward to use×5
+Works reliably without issues

Common complaints

−Shortcode does not render in page title/SEO meta, showing the raw tag instead
−A recent update broke the plugin, causing site errors and requiring removal

Review trustMostly organic

5.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
14%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2025-05-102025-12-062026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 115 total

5★

115

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 90 analyzed

2025-04-18★★★★★Not working in page title (SEO)ucscode
2023-05-22★★★★★Neat little plugin ingridskard
2023-01-14★★★★★Nice Tool Hermann Matthias
2022-03-07★★★★★This thing is a gem!onakublogger
2021-08-19★★★★★Great smac621-shot
2021-03-30★★★★★Great!!!rumaildeveloper
2020-06-04★★★★★Simplicity and efficiency in one plug-in!veronicakclark1-shot
2020-05-14★★★★★EXcellent Shortcode for Current Date Plugin nirajks72
2020-05-12★★★★★Great Plugin, works great RaeShantael
2020-05-09★★★★★Simple to use riarthoir1-shot

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2025-12-22v2.2.2
2025-04-06v2.2.0
2025-04-06v2.2.1
2023-04-12v2.1.9
2022-10-31v2.1.7
2022-04-04v2.1.6
2021-07-06v2.1.5
2021-02-14v2.1.4

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-23.4%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

100%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

3.61

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

100%

5★ share in analyzed sample

14%

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

5.00 → 5.00★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered