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Default Post Date and Time

by Greg Ross · Admin & Utilities

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Set the default date and time when you create a new post.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
48 Health · D
Maintenance 12/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

48 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

70+

Active installs

≈77 estimated

3.5K

Total downloads

since 2014

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+50%

51

Downloads · 30d

category median +20%

Removal-risk signals

28/100

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

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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 21/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 52/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1002 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+50% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

51

now · peak 88

5130d 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

Default Post Date an · #18179 you Loginizer · #46 Redux Framework · #70 Admin Menu Editor · #159

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.

729per 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

2.7y ago

latest release · v1.3.1

6

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.1 · 2.7y ago1.3 · 10.9y ago1.2 · 11.1y ago1.1 · 11.4y ago1.0 · 11.9y ago0.1 · 11.9y ago

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.

v1.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “70+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
70–80 ≈77

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

Install history · since 2016-05-07 · 1,386 observations

70Installs · 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
1.3.1
Last updated
2.7y ago
Added
2014-10-03 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
6.4.10
Requires PHP
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 1 reviews to 2016-03-20
Positive Praise

The one review here is happy, calling it a time saver for bulk back-dated posts and easy to use.

Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ iamrichardjames
    10.5y ago

    Great little plugin – when I had to publish lots of back-dated posts, this saved me from the mind-numbing job of changing the publish date every time. Couldn’t be easier to use.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ 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. 2026-06-07 80+ → 70+ down after 8 days in tier
  2. 2026-05-30 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-05-29 80+ → 70+ down after 9 days in tier
  4. 2026-05-20 70+ → 80+ up after 3 days in tier
  5. 2026-05-17 80+ → 70+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-05-16 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-05-15 80+ → 70+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2026-05-13 70+ → 80+ up after 2 days in tier

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