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October 22nd, 2008 |
When writing up the Countdown Timer in Flash article yesterday, I stumbled across a need for a fairly simple plugin - one that would output the current Unix Timestamp into a Post's content. While I could use a plugin such as 'Exec-PHP' to accomplish this, that seemed to fall into the 'breaking eggs with a sledgehammer' brand of overkill.
As such, I whipped up a quick Wordpress plugin (as I often do for these tiny problems), and decided to make this one available to the public. So without further ado, I give you...
Duck's Timestamp Inserter! Ok, it could use a more creative title. Using some pretty simple markup, it allows me to insert the current timestamp, or offsets thereof, into my post content.
<!--ducktime--> becomes 1231292294, while <!--ducktime+5000--> becomes 1231297294 and <!--ducktime-1200--> becomes 1231291094. If you refresh the page, you'll see these all change.
UPDATE: This Plugin is now listed on the WordPress Plugin Repository! You can download Duck's Timestamp Inserter from there - and of course, Ratings are appreciated. I've released it under GPL3. If you find it useful, please consider Donating.