Best current time plugins for WordPress
The most popular current time plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple Digital Clock 🕒 leads with 500+ active installs, ahead of Analog Clock Widget (90+) and autometa's NOWON (10+). All 4 plugins tagged “current time” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 current time plugins
- 1.
Simple Digital Clock đź•’The most installed current time plugin, with 500+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 12 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Analog Clock Widget90+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 3.
autometa's NOWON10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 4.
User Local Date and Time10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
All 4 plugins tagged “current time”

Simple Digital Clock đź•’
#8,966by falselight10 days ago
Add customizable digital clocks to WordPress. Show your office's local time, another city's time or UTC with captions, dates and colors.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.3(12)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Analog Clock Widget
Up in the last 7 days:24#17,283by mcnika8 years ago
Analog Clock Widget plugin allows you to create an unlimited number of different analog clocks. The plugin based on SVG Raphael - JavaScript Library.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 2.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

autometa's NOWON
Down in the last 7 days:4,933#46,019by JorgeAmVF8 years ago
It reproduces current time and date in pages, posts, portfolios or products simply via: [nowon] and [nowadays].
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

User Local Date and Time
Down in the last 7 days:8,239#48,004by Ivan Popov4 years ago
This plugin will give you a simple shortcode allowing you to display the visitor current date and time. Works both with standard time and Arabic time.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day