Dynamic Month & Year into Posts

1.4.0

• More improvements. props @meteorlxy

1.3.9

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

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 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

1.2.5

• Added: [weekday] shortcode renders day of the week like Sunday, Monday, …
• Added: [wd] shortcode renders shortnames for days of the week like Sun, Mon,…
• Compatibility with 6.0.1 tested.

1.2.4

• 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., 2021)
• [nyear] yields next year (e.g., 2023)

1.0.1

• Fixed Name Conflicts

1.0.0

• First version