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Blog Time

by Scott Reilly · Uncategorized

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Display the time according to your blog via an admin toolbar widget, a sidebar widget, and/or a template tag.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.15.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

46 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1857 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+4% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

99

now · peak 190

10930d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Blog Time · #8510 you Date Time Field Add- · #6697 All in One Time Cloc · #8491 Time Clock · #8960

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.6Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

182per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

5.1y ago

latest release · v4.0.1

19

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

4.0.1 · 5.1y ago4.0 · 5.2y ago3.6.2 · 6.2y ago3.6.1 · 6.7y ago3.6 · 7.4y ago3.5 · 8.1y ago3.5.1 · 8.1y ago3.4 · 10.4y ago3.3.2 · 11.0y ago3.3.1 · 11.5y ago3.3 · 11.5y ago3.2 · 11.9y ago3.0 · 14.6y ago2.0 · 15.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v4.0 98%
v3.6 1.7%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “600+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
600–700 ≈680

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-08-23 · 1,427 observations

600Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
4.0.1
Last updated
5.1y ago
Added
2009-07-06 · 17 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. afrikane
    5.1y ago

    Responsive support too.

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  2. MrBrian
    7.7y ago

    We process time sensitive orders with employees logging in throughout the world, and this was exactly what I was looking for! Displays the current time in the admin bar, and even updates the time without reloading the page. Not sure why several negative reviews.. works 100% for me.

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  3. Anonymous
    8.8y ago

    For us it did not work as anticipated (in the admin bar) It loaded the server time correctly, but a few seconds later it started using the local client time instead. This defeated the purpose of the clock, so i blocked the c2c_blog_time_active_clock filter, and while not dynamic, allows the time to be updated when clicked. Also, adding the seconds has helped. It is a useful tool, and is worth keeping, but only in its modified form.

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  4. timwoolfson
    8.8y ago

    Works just great.

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  5. zanzaboonda
    10.6y ago

    Works just fine. My only complaint is that the widget header does not appear, and there is no space between it and the next widget (I semi-resolved this by putting a paragraph tag in the “text after” field, but it didn’t quite work. Otherwise, 5 stars for me.

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  6. seamstobesew
    10.9y ago

    I’m surprised that this hasn’t had good reviews. It works just fine, adds a little clock right by your admin name in title bar so you can always see your blog time. Between having to deal with all the “timing” stuff we need to in WordPress, this little addon is quite nice to have. Thank you.

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  7. OviLiz
    13.5y ago

    She works but don’t update (like Ajax) so who need a plugin to do that?

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  8. curiousdannii
    13.7y ago

    Doesn’t show the correct time.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 129 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Russian 100%
Spanish (Chile) 82%
Spanish (Spain) 82%
Czech 43%
German 26%
French (France) 21%
Chinese (China) 17%
Dutch 17%
Japanese 17%
Portuguese (Portugal) 17%
Albanian 13%
Belarusian 13%
Bulgarian 13%
Catalan 13%
Danish 13%
English (Australia) 13%
English (Canada) 13%
English (UK) 13%
Finnish 13%
Galician 13%
Hebrew 13%
Hindi 13%
Hungarian 13%
Italian 13%

Plus 105 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2025-11-24 700+ → 600+ down after 95 days in tier
  2. 2025-08-21 600+ → 700+ up after 4 days in tier
  3. 2025-08-17 700+ → 600+ down after 5 days in tier
  4. 2025-08-12 600+ → 700+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2025-08-10 700+ → 600+ down after 5 days in tier
  6. 2025-08-05 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-08-04 700+ → 600+ down after 7 days in tier
  8. 2025-07-28 600+ → 700+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

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