Title: Show Full Date for a Day’s Name Author: David Nickles Published: March 14, 2017 Last modified: July 13, 2021 --- 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://ps.w.org/show-date-for-holidays-name/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1614572) # Show Full Date for a Day’s Name By [David Nickles](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fishbytes/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/show-date-for-holidays-name.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-date-for-holidays-name/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-date-for-holidays-name/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-date-for-holidays-name/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-date-for-holidays-name/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-date-for-holidays-name/) ## Description Show Date for Holiday’s Name quickly calculates and shows the full date of major U.S. holidays for the current calendar year. Add the full date notation for many U.S. Federal holidays, Hawaiian state holidays, and various cultural observances in your posts easily with just the name of the day. For federal and state public holidays that may land on a weekend, you can choose to display the actual date of the holiday or the designated observed weekday date. ## Installation In most cases you can install automatically from WordPress. However, if you install this manually, follow these steps: 1. Upload the entire _show-date-for-days-name_ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. FYI: There is no “control panel” for this plugin. ## FAQ ### What holidays are recognized by the plugin? An example of the shortcode and attributes for this plugin are as follows: [showdatefor name=”holiday” date=”observed”] Shortcode _attributes_ have changed with version 1.3. The _date_ attribute should be set to [ actual | observed ]. The default is the actual date of the holiday for the calendar year. Observed is for the transposed date that public holidays that have been given for the current calendar year to give worker’s time off. The _name_ attribute should be set to one of the following public holiday and cultural observances codes that are recognized by this plugin: The following list of codes are available to generate current _US Federal holiday dates_: * newyearsday * nextnewyearsday * martinlutherkingjrday * valentinesday * washingtonsbirthday * presidentsday * saintpatricksday * goodfriday * easter * arborday * mothersday * memorialday * fathersday * juneteenth * independenceday * laborday * columbusday * discoverersday * halloween * electionday * veteransday * thanksgiving * christmaseve * christmas * xmas The following list of additional codes are available to generate current _Hawaiian state holiday dates and other cultural observances_: * girlsday * hinamatsuri * princekuhioday * mayday * leiday * boysday * tangonosekku * kamehamehaday * tanabatafestival * admissionsday * statehoodday * honolulumarathon If you have any further questions, please submit them [to the support forum.](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-date-for-days-name) ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Show Full Date for a Day’s Name” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ David Nickles ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fishbytes/) [Translate “Show Full Date for a Day’s Name” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/show-date-for-holidays-name) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/show-date-for-holidays-name/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/show-date-for-holidays-name/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/show-date-for-holidays-name/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/show-date-for-holidays-name/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.3 * Added goodfriday, washingtonsbirthday, and juneteenth federal holidays * Revised code base * Changed attributes to enable new functionality * Added observed vs. actual for federal and state public holidays #### 1.2 * Added juneteenth federal holiday #### 1.1 * Small bug fixes * Added more dates * Refactored for unique function names #### 1.0 * Initial launch of the plugin ## Meta * Version **1.3** * Last updated **5 years ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 4.7 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.8.13** * PHP version ** 5.2 or higher ** * Tags * [holidays](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/holidays/)[state](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/state/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-date-for-holidays-name/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-date-for-holidays-name/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-date-for-holidays-name/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ David Nickles ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fishbytes/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/show-date-for-holidays-name/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](http://www.waikikiaquarium.org)