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"]
- Upload the entire
future-dater folder to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory.
- Activate the plugin. There is no configuration or setup to do.
- 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.