Title: Future Dater Author: Mark Costlow Published: May 23, 2013 Last modified: May 23, 2013 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/future-dater.svg) # Future Dater By [Mark Costlow](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swcp/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/future-dater.0.9.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/future-dater/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/future-dater/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/future-dater/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/future-dater/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/future-dater/) ## Description Future Dater is a simple plugin to provide a shortcode to include certain types of future (or past) dates in your posts or pages. The type of dates supported are“ beginning of next quarter”, “last day of this quarter”, “first day of next month”, etc. _Features_ There are 4 arguments to the [futuredate] shortcode: * unit – Required. Which part of the current date you want to modify. Valid values:“ month” and “quarter”. * relunit – Optional. Whether you want reference the first day or last day of the unit, or the same day as the current date. Valid values: “first”, “last”, or none. * count – Required. How much to modify the current date, in units specified by the unit argument. Most commonly 1 (for next month or next quarter) or 0 (for the current month or quarter). Also accepts negative values. * format – Optional. PHP date-formatting string to specify how the date should be printed. Most common value: `Y-m-d’. _Examples_ * The end of this month: [futuredate unit=month relunit=last count=0 format=”Y- m-d H:i:s”] * The end of this quarter: [futuredate unit=quarter relunit=last count=0 format =”Y-m-d”] * The first day of next quarter: [futuredate unit=quarter relunit=first count=1 format=”Y-m-d”] * The end of the quarter, 5 quarters from now: [futuredate unit=quarter relunit =last count=5 format=”Y-m-d”] * The end of previous quarter: [futuredate unit=quarter relunit=last count=-1 format =”Y-m-d”] * First day of next month: [futuredate unit=month relunit=first count=1 format=” Y-m-d”] * Two months from now: [futuredate unit=month count=2 format=”Y-m-d”] ## Installation 1. Upload the entire `future-dater` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. 2. Activate the plugin. There is no configuration or setup to do. 3. Add [futuredate] shortcodes to your Posts or Pages. Support: If you have questions or problems with this plugin, please email futuredater at swcp dot com. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ba7c5eb137de2059a1623dbbe04c974e2f0a70da6c403f6a575661c61c721676? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Helpful plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helpful-plugin-71/)󠁿 [blackjaic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blackjaic/) September 1, 2017 This little plugin keeps my copyright notices and recurring promotions up to date so I don’t have to periodically peruse by site for out of date references. [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/future-dater/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Future Dater” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Mark Costlow ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swcp/) [Translate “Future Dater” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/future-dater) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/future-dater/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/future-dater/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/future-dater/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/future-dater/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.9 * Initial version ## Meta * Version **0.9** * Last updated **13 years ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 3.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.5.2** * Tags * [date](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/date/)[Future](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/future/) [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/future-dater/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/future-dater/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/future-dater/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/future-dater/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/future-dater/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/future-dater/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/future-dater/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/future-dater/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Mark Costlow ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swcp/) ## Support Got something to say? 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