Displaying Today’s Date Anywhere Using Shortcode (Recommended)
source: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-todays-date-in-wordpress/
For this method, we will create a shortcode and then use it to display the date and time anywhere on our WordPress website.
You can add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file or by using a custom code snippets plugin such as WPCode (recommended):
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function wpb_date_today($atts, $content = null) {
extract( shortcode_atts( array(
'format' => ''
), $atts ) );
if ($atts['format'] == '') {
$date_time .= date(get_option('date_format'));
} else {
$date_time .= date($atts['format']);
}
return $date_time;
}
add_shortcode('date-today','wpb_date_today');
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This code simply creates a shortcode that displays the current date. You can use it by adding this shortcode anywhere on your site:
[date-today]
By default, the shortcode will display the date in the default date format in your WordPress settings.
You can also use your own date format by modifying the shortcode like this:
[date-today format='F j, Y']
Then, it should be something like this on your website.
