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Date Published Shortcode

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Automatically puts in the date that the post was published, using the shortcode [post_published].

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

500+

Active installs

≈590 estimated

4.4K

Total downloads

since 2018

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+44%

121

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.9.16.

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 7/100
WP compatibility 36/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1577 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 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+44% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

121

now · peak 190

12330d 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

Date Published Short · #9165 you WP Meta and Date Rem · #497 Display Posts · #544 Bulk Post Update Dat · #1823

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.

246per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈590

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,418 observations

500Installs · 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.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.1.0
Last updated
4.3y ago
Added
2018-05-15 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
5.9.16
Requires PHP
5.2.4
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 1 reviews to 2018-07-29
Positive PraiseOnboarding

The one review here is happy, a reviewer who didn't want to touch code says the plugin form made it easy to set their own date format.

Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ wswp2
    8.1y ago

    I noticed this coding on a blog, but was paranoid about digging into code. I’m gratified to see it in plugin form. Gave me the motsy to open this up in the wp editor, so I could add my preferred date format ( ‘M j, Y’ ) for Jul 29, 2018. Happy camper! Thank you

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-06-28 600+ → 500+ down after 10 days in tier
  2. 2025-06-18 500+ → 600+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2025-06-16 600+ → 500+ down after 224 days in tier
  4. 2024-11-04 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2024-11-03 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-11-02 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-11-01 600+ → 700+ up after 3 days in tier
  8. 2024-10-29 700+ → 600+ down after 3 days in tier

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