[Support request] Shortcode for Current Month

[Praveen]

Hi guys,

Is there a way to display the current month inside a post (with shortcode) without using any additional plugin?

Its not required in all articles, just in some.

[Elvin]

Hi there,

There’s no shortcode for this by default.

But you can reuse something I’ve written before:

add_shortcode('display_current_date',function($atts){
	ob_start();
	$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
		'timezone' => '',
		'html_tag' => '',
		'class' => '',
		'format' => '',
		'id' => ''
	), $atts, 'display_current_date' );
	
	date_default_timezone_set($timezone);
	if( $atts['timezone'] ){
		date_default_timezone_set($atts['timezone']);
	}
	
	if( empty( $atts['html_tag'] ) ){
		$html_tag = 'span';	
	} else{
		$html_tag = $atts['html_tag'];
	}
	
	if( empty( $atts['id'] ) ){
		$id = '';
	} else{
		$id = 'id="'.$atts['id'].'"';
	}
	
	if( empty( $atts['class'] ) ){
		$class = '';
	} else{
		$class = 'class="'.$atts['class'].'"';
	}
	
	if( empty( $atts['format'] ) ){
		$format = 'F';
	} else{
		$format = $atts['format'];
	}
	
	echo '<'.$html_tag.' '.$id.' '.$class.'>'.date($format).'</'.$html_tag.'>';
	return ob_get_clean();
});

This PHP snippet allows you to use [display_current_date].

It has a couple of attributes but if you use the default [display_current_date] it will only display the month with <span> HTML tag.

Here are a few attributes to use.

Example: making the date display using <h2> element
[display_current_date html_tag="h2"]

Example: changing timezone to Asia/Manila.
[display_current_date timezone="Asia/Manila"]
List of supported timezones – [display_current_date html_tag=”p” class=”test” id=”test-1″ format=”F j, Y, g:i a” timezone=”Asia/Manila”]

Example: add class “test”, add id “test-1” and use p HTML tag.
[display_current_date html_tag="p" class="test" id="test-1"]

Example: Changing date format to add day, year and timestamp incase you change your mind.
[display_current_date format="F j, Y, g:i a"]

Example: using all attributes.
[display_current_date html_tag="p" class="test" id="test-1" format="F j, Y, g:i a" timezone="Asia/Manila"]

[Praveen]

perfect!

Is there a chance of this NOT working based on WordPress version updates?

[Elvin]

Is there a chance of this NOT working based on WordPress version updates?

That’s impossible to answer with 100% certainty. But it’s most likely going to work on WordPress update unless they decide to stop using shortcodesadd_shortcode() and other WordPress functions. (very unlikely)

[Praveen]

Love it! Thanks.

[Elvin]

No problem. 😀

[Tim]

Hi Elvin, awesome shortcode! Thank you very much. Is there a way to translate it to spanish (my wordpress default language)?

Thanks.

[David]

Hi there,

try changing this line of code:

echo '<'.$html_tag.' '.$id.' '.$class.'>'.date($format).'</'.$html_tag.'>';

to:

echo '<'.$html_tag.' '.$id.' '.$class.'>'.date_i18n($format, false, false).'</'.$html_tag.'>';

[Tim]

Thank you! I finally used this. That should be ok, right?

function display_date_1() {
    return date_i18n('d/m/Y');
}
add_shortcode('date_1', 'display_date_1');

function display_date_2() {
    return date_i18n('d-m-Y');
}
add_shortcode('date_2', 'display_date_2');

function display_date_3() {
    return date_i18n('D d.m.Y');
}
add_shortcode('date_3', 'display_date_3');

function display_date_4() {
    return "Hoy es ". date_i18n('l') .", " . date_i18n('d') . " de ". date_i18n('F'). " del año " .date_i18n('Y');
}
add_shortcode('date_4', 'display_date_4');

[David]

Looks good to me 🙂

[Tim]

Perfect, thanks!

[David]

You’re welcome

[Author]

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