Best date plugins for WordPress
The most popular date plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP Meta and Date Remover leads with 80K+ active installs, ahead of Hide/Remove Metadata (20K+) and WP Date and Time Shortcode (10K+). All 179 plugins tagged “date” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 date plugins
- 1.WP Meta and Date Remover
The most installed date plugin, with 80K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 71 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 2.Hide/Remove Metadata
20K+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 14 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 3.WP Date and Time Shortcode
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 31 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.Bulk Post Update Date
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 18 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 5.
Show/Hide Content at Set Time10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 33 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 6.
Meks Time Ago10K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 9 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.
WP Author, Date and Meta Remover10K+ active installs. Rated 3.2 from 25 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 8.
WP-Persian7K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 32 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 9.
Bulk Datetime Change6K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 10.
Seed Buddhist Year3K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 11 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
All 179 plugins tagged “date”
WP Meta and Date Remover
Up in the last 7 days:2#499by prasadkirpekar5 months ago
Remove meta author and date information from posts and pages. Hide from Humans and Search engines.SEO friendly and most advance plugin.
- Installs
- 80K+
- Rating
- 4.2(71)
- Downloads
- 299/day
Hide/Remove Metadata
#1,238by Catch Plugins5 months ago
Hide/Remove Metadata is a free WordPress plugin that helps you hide author and published date either by CSS or PHP from your website effortlessly.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 3.6(14)
- Downloads
- 75/day
WP Date and Time Shortcode
#1,812by Denra.com2 months ago
Shortcode to show any current, past, and future date or time. Display this, previous, or next year, month, day, etc.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(31)
- Downloads
- 54/day
Bulk Post Update Date
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,942by Atiq Samtia2 years ago
Change the Post Update date for all posts and pages in one click. This will help your blog in search engines and your blog will look alive.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(18)
- Downloads
- 29/day

Show/Hide Content at Set Time
Up in the last 7 days:7#2,072by Dave Clements7 years ago
Shortcodes to wrap around text, which specify at what date or time that content should appear or disappear, either once, or on a recurring basis.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(33)
- Downloads
- 18/day

Meks Time Ago
Down in the last 7 days:4#2,105by Meks11 months ago
Automatically change your post date display to "time ago" format like 1 hour ago, 3 days ago, etc...
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(9)
- Downloads
- 45/day

WP Author, Date and Meta Remover
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,108by Johnnie5 years ago
Don't need the post date and author meta data on your pages? Install WP Author, Date and Meta Remover and its gone. It's that easy!
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.2(25)
- Downloads
- 23/day

WP-Persian
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,544by Siavash6 years ago
Fast and Powerful plugin for Jalali calendar and Farsi language support in Wordpress and standard plugins.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.2(32)
- Downloads
- 20/day

Bulk Datetime Change
Up in the last 7 days:26#2,893by Katsushi Kawamori20 days ago
Bulk change date/time for posts.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 61/day

Seed Buddhist Year
Up in the last 7 days:1#3,901by Seed Webs2 years ago
Change output year to Buddhist year or Buddhist Era (BE).
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.9(11)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Themify Event Post
Up in the last 7 days:3#4,209by themifyme3 months ago
This plugin will add Event post type.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Persian Date
Down in the last 7 days:12#4,257by Mahdi Yousefi [MahdiY]3 months ago
تاریخ شمسی برای وردپرس
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.5(16)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Dynamic Year Block
Down in the last 7 days:6#4,475by Marcio Duarte2 months ago
A block that always displays the current year in your footer copyright notice.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Auto Update Post Date
Down in the last 7 days:12#4,638by Timi Makinde2 months ago
Keep your WordPress content evergreen with Auto Update Post Date – a FREE simple WP plugin designed to effortlessly update your posts and boost SEO
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Easy Timer
Down in the last 7 days:12#5,391by Kleor1 year ago
Allows you to easily display a count down/up timer, the time or the current date on your website, and to schedule an automatic content modification.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(17)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Date counter
Down in the last 7 days:1#6,321by Konstantin Pankratov1 year ago
Date counter - is just a 9 kilobytes WordPress plugin.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Widget Visibility Time Scheduler
Down in the last 7 days:24#6,591by Kybernetik Services2 months ago
Control the visibility of each widget easily based on date, time and weekday.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Date Time Field Add-On for Gravity Form
Up in the last 7 days:20#6,613by Awais10 months ago
A date-time add-on for Gravity Forms with custom date time format.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Users by Date Registered
Down in the last 7 days:22#6,753by Sébastien Dumont7 years ago
Allows you to see the dates users registered on and filter the users by date.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Countdown Timer
Down in the last 7 days:16#7,257by fergbrain7 years ago
This plugin allows you to setup a series of dates to count to or from in terms of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and/or seconds.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.7(10)
- Downloads
- 16/day

WP Hebrew Date
Down in the last 7 days:12#8,252by hatul1 month ago
Convert dates in wordpress to Hebrew dates.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Today's Date Inserter
Down in the last 7 days:56#8,350by mulscully12 years ago
Simply and quickly add the current date and or time to your wordpress posts or pages using a shortcode Date widget also included
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP-Farsi
Down in the last 7 days:76#8,542by Ali.Dbg10 years ago
تبدیل تاریخ میلادی وردپرس به شمسی Gregorian date to Solar, time jalali persian parsi farsi wp iran shamsi khorshidi hejri
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 3.7(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Date Published Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:22#9,301by jonahhoj4 years ago
Automatically puts in the date that the post was published, using the shortcode [post_published].
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tabs in Post Editor
Down in the last 7 days:33#9,346by Aaron Butacov13 years ago
Write code in the WP post editor? Hate not being able to use [tab]s? Now you can.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day

First payment date for WooCommerce Subscriptions
Up in the last 7 days:37#9,624by Javier Carazo3 months ago
This plugin allows you to set a first payment date for a subscription, using WooCommerce Subscriptions. So you will be able to set a specific date.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.7(10)
- Downloads
- 17/day

Block Permissions
Up in the last 7 days:20#9,712by meceware5 years ago
Show Gutenberg editor blocks only to target audience depending on their user attributes such as user role, log in information and user names.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Hide My Dates
Up in the last 7 days:5#9,811by Flector1 year ago
The plugin hides post and comment publishing dates from Google.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Localendar Calendar for WordPress
Up in the last 7 days:40#10,087by Thomas Griffin7 years ago
Thanks for checking out the localendar calendar plugin for WordPress. We have been powering web calendars for thousands of sites for over 16 years, an …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 2.7(19)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Upload Media Exif Date
Up in the last 7 days:33#11,385by Katsushi Kawamori4 days ago
When registering images in the media library, register with the date of EXIF information.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Date Range Filter
Up in the last 7 days:27#11,638by Jonathan Bardo9 years ago
Easily filter the admin list of post and custom post type with a date range.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Date Calculator
Down in the last 7 days:45#11,824by matthias.s8 years ago
Date Calculator returns the current date via shortcode and it can calculate it into an other and returns it in posts, pages and also in CF7-forms.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.4(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Frontend Dashboard Extra
Down in the last 7 days:45#12,144by M A Vinoth Kumar2 years ago
Frontend Dashboard Extra WordPress plugin is a supportive plugin for Frontend Dashboard with supportive additional features likes extra Calendar for s …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Wareki
Up in the last 7 days:114#12,711by Katsushi Kawamori2 months ago
Add a Japanese calendar including the era in date format, posts, comments, archives and calendar.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Current Date & Time Widget
Up in the last 7 days:53#13,505by Chris Jean18 years ago
Provides a widget that shows the current date and time given a specified timezone and format.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
WP-RelativeDate
Down in the last 7 days:88#13,536by Lester Chan3 months ago
Displays relative date alongside with your post/comments actual date.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Date/Time Fields for Gravity Forms
Up in the last 7 days:32#13,752by Gravity Extra20 days ago
Create a new custom combined "Date/Time" picker field for Gravity Forms.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Date Today Nepali
Down in the last 7 days:50#14,066by Nilambar Sharma4 months ago
A small widget plugin to display Nepali date.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

ACF RRule Field
Down in the last 7 days:212#14,157by Marc Bellêtre1 year ago
Create recurring rules within a single ACF field and retrieve all the dates.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 5/day

Timeline Express
Up in the last 7 days:5#15,867by Code Parrots3 years ago
Assign and display times alongside the announcement dates in Timeline Express announcements.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dynamic Dates
Up in the last 7 days:29#16,004by Jason Hendriks11 years ago
Calculate dates ('next Sunday') and relative dates ('December 25th two years from now') in your posts and pages.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Timify
Down in the last 7 days:577#16,090by ThemeIM3 years ago
With Timify, let your audience know about the last modified date, publish date, and reading time of your articles. You can also customize each setting …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Bangla Date and Time
Up in the last 7 days:65#16,383by MH Mithu11 years ago
A simple but useful plugin to display relevant Bangla date, time, calendar and numbers.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Today-Yesterday Dates
Down in the last 7 days:111#16,873by Flector1 year ago
This plugin changes the creation dates of posts to relative dates for posts that are dated today or yesterday (relative to the current time, i.e.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DutchDate
Down in the last 7 days:69#17,295by mendezki10 years ago
Replaces english day and month names with their dutch equivalent
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Server Date Time
Up in the last 7 days:42#17,775by dhruwal10 months ago
This plugin shows the server local current date time & timezone in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
persian date shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:38#17,780by esmail ebrahimi7 years ago
Easy way for Display persian date in multi format and unlimited color in wordpress site
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Archives by Category and Date
Up in the last 7 days:233#17,879by WEN Solutions1 month ago
This plugin shows archives in a categorized way that is archives are categorized under category name and date.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Today's Date
Down in the last 7 days:180#17,897by ben poland13 years ago
Display The Current Date In A Customizable Format
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Automatic Post Date Filler
Down in the last 7 days:33#17,917by Devtard10 years ago
Automatically sets custom date and time when editing posts.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day