Magic Dates

If you are like me, you are probably responsible for updating content in (some) of your clients' sites. Have you ever had pieces of content like these:

1. "This is my 8th year in this industry [...]"
2. "Our little shop is up and running for 11 years [...]"
3. "9 years ago we decided to open our shop [...]"

Then, at some point next year your client calls and tells you to update the "11 years" to "12 years". Wouldn't be great if these number could be auto-increased? And that's where "Magic Dates" comes to play. How to use it: Whenever you find yourself writing content in the editor, at the moment that you need an auto-increased number of years use the plugin like this: (Example current year: 2020) [magicdate]2005[/magicdate] => This will produce 15 If you want an ordinal number (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) use it like this: [magicdate ordinalize='true']2008[/magicdate] => This will produce 12th Use the [magicdays]YYYY-mm-dd[/magicdays] shortcode to calculate the number of days between today and the given date Easy eh?

To install Magic Dates:

1. Upload the 'magic_dates.php' file into the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Use the shortcode [magicdate][/magicdate] in the editor to calculate the interval in years
4. Use the shortcode [magicdays][/magicdays] in the editor to calculate the interval in days

1.3 Add days interval calculations between today and a given date 1.2 Maintenance Release 1.1 Maintenance Release 1.0 Initial release