Description

Automate your SEO

Add today’s date by [date], current year by [year], previous year by [pyear], next year by [nyear], current month (like January) by [month], next month (like February) by [nmonth], previous month (like December) by [pmonth], current/next/previous month shortname (like Jan, Feb and Dec) by [mon], [nmon] & [pmon] shortcodes anywhere, including content and title. Uses your default WordPress language. Use this plugin to boost your site’s SEO, automate your affiliate marketing, automatically updating blogging lists, offer dynamic coupon expiries and more, just by using these variables anywhere.

See Full List of Shortcodes

Works with popular SEO Plugins

Supports RankMath, Yoast and SEOPress plugins and can be used to replace all their date based variables.
[year] works as a replacement to %currentyear% , [month] as a replacement to %currentmonth% already.
Use various combinations to make your articles even more dynamic and make your content always SEO ready — no matter the date or year.
Extremely useful for Affiliate Marketers, Amazon Affiliates and Copywriters.

Supports

Rank Math
Rank Math Pro
SEOPress
SEOPress Premium
Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO Premium
Gutenberg and Block Editor Content, Headings and Buttons
Elementor Page Builder

Tested to be working with Yoast SEO, SEOPress and Rank Math’s breadcrumbs, custom meta titles, excerpt etc.

Note: Since August 2021, Google has started showing h1 titles in search results, this plugin becomes even more useful as no other SEO plugins adds Current Month, Current Year or Today’s Date in h1 titles except this; keeping the same in SEO meta as well.

More features

Full Rank Math OpenGraph Support.
Schema and OpenGraph support in YoastSEO.
Multiple Langauge (WPML) Support: Shortcode renders your site’s defined language.
Contextual Related Posts Support
Jetpack Related Posts Support
Totally native. No configuration required.

Easy to use

Just install the plugin (see Installation tab) and activate it. Add [year] to render current year, [nyear] to render next year, [pyear] to render previous year, [month] to render current month (full name) and [mon] to render first three letters of months automatically. See Full List of Shortcodes

As the months & years change, these shortcodes get updated into the content and title automatically on the shortcode locations.

Zero bloat. No CSS/JS files loaded.

Privacy

Dynamic Month & Year into Posts is a completely native shortcode plugin. It has no settings page and does not use any analytics tool to gather or use your data. It’s bloat and ad-free.

Fast Support and Feature Implementation

I will provide instant support for all your queries or feature requests. Use support forum to ask your questions, request new features or report something broken.

I will try my best to ensure that this plugin is compatible with every functionality plugin you use.

Screenshots

Backend Editing
Front end preview (without Rank Math)
With RM Breadcrumb
Admin Post list demo

Installation

Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
There is no additional configuration required. There will not be any menus or settings for this plugin.

FAQ

Why would I need this?: If you are an affiliate marketer or blogger who uses month, years and dates in your posts. If you use these dynamic month, year, date, next year, previous year shortcodes you won’t have to update those posts again and again as the time passes.
How can I access settings?: You can not. There is no options panel because there is no need to have one.
Can I use it in Block Editor or Classic Editor?: You can use the shortcodes in both Block Editor and Classic Editor like running text. You can also the shortcodes in widget areas including footer (use-case: Autoupdating Copyright Year) and headers (use-case: Today’s Date).
Will this plugin work in my language?: Yes. The shortcode outputs are WPML ready. Since there is no settings page, you don’t have to translate this plugin.
How can I use these shortcodes in my theme/PHP code?: You can use <?php echo do_shortcode('[year]');?>, <?php echo do_shortcode('[month]');?> etc. in themes or in functionality plugins to use these shortcodes.

Reviews

Fillip October 19, 2021

Excellent plugin because it's so simple to use. Plus, the 'next year' shortcode in the post title works everytime.

mmedia October 14, 2021

This guy definitely deserves a 5 start here. Thanks for all your contribution. I have asked for a new feature on a plugin and he is very quick to update it on the next release. Happy to use this lightweight and secure plugin.

Dzil August 26, 2021

Awesome plugin, thanks guarav for your great support

Alex Mangini May 31, 2021

Plugin does exactly what it says, nothing more and nothing less.

Ali Jahani April 18, 2021

Thanks a lots. This plugin used for seo and fresh content Thats great!

Emmanuelson April 13, 2021

All my post months and years were manually updated via phpMyadmin until I found this plugin. Thank you for helping the community with such a useful plugin. Keep up the good work.

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Contributors & Developers

“Dynamic Month & Year into Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Gaurav Tiwari

Translate “Dynamic Month & Year into Posts” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

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., 2020)
[nyear] yields next year (e.g., 2022)

1.0.1

Fixed Name Conflicts

1.0.0

First version

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