Date counter

Description

Date counter – is just a 9 kilobytes WordPress plugin.

Easily display the current date or calculate the difference between two dates.

Current date & time

Current date & time: [CurrentDatetime format="d/m/Y H:i"].
Current date & time: 05.07.2021 12:48.

[CurrentDatetime format="jS F, Y"].
6th July, 2021.

It's [CurrentDatetime format="g:i A (e)"].
It's 10:35 AM (UTC).

You can find all possible formats in documentation.

Date & time difference

I'm [DatetimeDifference startDate="1998-08-25" endDate="now" format="Y"] years old.
I'm 23 years old now.

[DatetimeDifference startDate="31.12.2020" endDate="now" format="a"] days have passed since the new year.
187 days have passed since the new year.

Tomorrow's trip at 14:35 (2:35 PM) starts in [DatetimeDifference startDate="now" endDate="07.07.2021 14:35" format="h hours & i minutes"].
Tomorrow's trip at 14:35 (2:35 PM) starts in 8 hours & 34 minutes.

You can find all possible formats in documentation.

Total date & time difference

The store will open in [TotalDatetimeDifference startDate="now" endDate="16.07.2021 8:00" format="i"] minutes today.
The store will open in 19 minutes today.

[TotalDatetimeDifference startDate="now" endDate="25.08.2025" format="d"] days left until my b-day.
39 days left until my b-day.

You can find all possible formats in documentation.

🤘Extra

Shift from today’s date: ± N days | ± N weeks | ± N months | ± N years

[DatetimeDifference startDate="now" endDate="+1day" format="d"]
[TotalDatetimeDifference startDate="-3years" endDate="now" format="d"]

Post created & modified date

[DatetimeDifference startDate="post:created" endDate="now" format="d"]
[TotalDatetimeDifference startDate="now" endDate="post:modified" format="d"]

Installation

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/date-counter directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
Place shortcode.

Reviews

simple but functional.

By aprop on June 10, 2024

I love this kind of plugin, that does what it promises and have no premium options.

Love it...

By CBServices on July 15, 2021

Love it, but would like the option to count all minutes or hours from a specified date.

just what I was looking for

By lewis (lewiswolk) on March 22, 2021

Amazing easy to setup plugin. I was able to achieve exactly what I wanted with this plugin. Now on my front page at pipeworkpieces.com for potential customers I am able to easily change this from the back end based on my amount of orders. IMPORTANT NOTES: Delivery on items are 2 -4 weeks based on current orders in production and orders are scheduled to be made as they come in. If you place your order for your piece today your piece is guaranteed to be ready for shipping on Mon, Apr 12 . Great plugin

Excellent and simple

By simplicitous on October 31, 2020

Thank you for this elegant and simple plugin that can save a bunch of time.

Great !

By patowins on October 7, 2019

I have been looking for something like this for a long time! Thank you very much for such a great job!

Easy, light without too much code

By rafalryn on June 4, 2019

Just as I needed. I made a little changed in code to seperate each digit and add extra own css to present number of days always as typical counter 🙂

Very Helpful Plugin

By vashax on November 8, 2018

Thank you very much for the most amazing plugin. I was searching like mad for this feature online, I searched everywhere for the last 3 days and finally, I came on wordpress.org and I was so lucky to find your plugin. Thanks a lot again. God Bless You. Vashax

Great plugin

By Highedge (benandtimmies) on September 12, 2018

Thanks for the great plugin! Exactly what I was looking for for my project. I'm using it to automatically show the days until a booking reservation. Perfect! 🙂

Changelog

2.0.3

Fixed exception messages in DatetimeDifference and TotalDatetimeDiffrence classes. Added support for creation and modification dates of the current post.

2.0.0

Redesigned plugin: added new features and simplified general workflow.

1.0.4

Added support for Time Zone management. You can now change the time zone using the WordPress settings.

1.0.2

Improved calculations
Added support for PHP DateInterval::format

1.0.1

Just a first version of a Date counter plugin.