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Dynamic Month & Year into Posts

by Gaurav Tiwari

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80 Quality Score
Active Installs
17/30

With 8,000 active installs, this is a niche tool rather than a mainstream plugin, reflected in a middling popularity component of 58 out of 30.

Update Freshness
25/25

Last updated June 2026 and tested against WordPress 7.0, the plugin shows strong maintenance signals and earns full marks in this category.

User Rating
15/15

A perfect score of 100 from 17 reviewers indicates high user satisfaction, though the small sample size means the rating should be read with some caution.

Support Health
8/15

Zero support threads and zero resolved tickets suggests either a quiet, happy user base or a lack of active support engagement, earning a modest 50 score.

WP Compatibility
15/15

The plugin requires PHP 7.4 and WordPress 6.0 and is tested with WordPress 7.0, giving it strong modern compatibility and full marks here.

Scores higher than 79% of indexed plugins

About

Automate SEO and content with dynamic shortcodes for dates, years, months, age calculations, seasons and countdowns in content, titles and meta.

Active Installs 8k+
Rating ★★★★★ 5/5
Last Updated 2026-08-27 7:03am GMT
Requires WordPress 6.5+
Tested Up To 7.1
Requires PHP 7.4+
✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Dynamic Month & Year into Posts inserts shortcodes that automatically render the current date, year, month, season, or countdown in your content, titles, and meta fields. It also handles age calculations, so you can display values like 'as of 2026' or a person's age without manually editing posts over time. The core appeal is keeping evergreen content visually current without touching the editor.

Who It's For

This plugin is well suited to publishers who run large archives of time-sensitive posts, such as real estate listings, event sites, legal or compliance pages, and seasonal promotions where dated references matter. It is also a fit for marketing teams that want every article to feel freshly written without the overhead of manual updates. Smaller blogs that rarely reference dates will get little value from it.

Who Should Skip It

If your content is timeless and you do not reference dates, seasons, or countdowns anywhere in your posts, this plugin is unnecessary weight. Sites already using a full SEO suite that handles dynamic schema and date metadata should also skip it, since dedicated SEO plugins cover similar ground with broader context.

The Bottom Line

Dynamic Month & Year into Posts scores 79.98 out of 100 and does one specific job, dynamic date and countdown shortcodes, very well, with strong maintenance and compatibility. It is not a replacement for a full SEO suite, but it fills a real gap for time-sensitive content workflows. Recommend it for niche use cases where its feature set matches the job; skip it for general SEO needs.

Tags

dates dynamic content seo shortcode year