Blog Time

Version: 4.0.1

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

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This plugin adds a dynamic, functional clock to the the admin bar (at top of all admin pages) to show the server time for the blog. The clock automatically updates as time passes, as you would expect of a digital clock. This plugin also supports a static mode which puts a timestamp string at the top of all admin pages instead of the dynamic clock. This static admin time widget is AJAX-ified so that if you click the timestamp, it updates in place (without a page reload) to show the new current server time. Also provided is a “Blog Time” widget providing the same functionality as the admin widget, but for your sidebars. You may also utilize the plugin’s functionality directly within a theme template via use of the template tag c2c_blog_time(). NOTE: For the front-end widget, if the “Use dynamic clock?” configuration option is unchecked, this plugin generates a timestamp and NOT a clock. The time being displayed is the time of the page load, or if clicked, the time when the widget last retrieved the time. It won’t actively increment time on the display. By default the widget displays a dynamic clock that does increment time. This is most useful to see the server/blog time to judge when a time sensitive post, comment, or action would be dated...

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Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
Latest PHP 7.4.8 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
Latest WordPress 5.8 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
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Frequently updated The plugin was not updated at least once in the last 90 days

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Active Installation

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Description

This plugin also supports a static mode which puts a timestamp string at the top of all admin pages instead of the dynamic clock. This static admin time widget is AJAX-ified so that if you click the timestamp, it updates in place (without a page reload) to show the new current server time.

Also provided is a “Blog Time” widget providing the same functionality as the admin widget, but for your sidebars. You may also utilize the plugin’s functionality directly within a theme template via use of the template tag c2c_blog_time().

NOTE: For the front-end widget, if the “Use dynamic clock?” configuration option is unchecked, this plugin generates a timestamp and NOT a clock. The time being displayed is the time of the page load, or if clicked, the time when the widget last retrieved the time. It won’t actively increment time on the display. By default the widget displays a dynamic clock that does increment time.

This is most useful to see the server/blog time to judge when a time sensitive post, comment, or action would be dated by the blog (i.e. such as monitoring for when to close comments on a contest post, or just accounting for the server being hosted in a different timezone). Or, when used statically as a timestamp and not a clock, it can indicate/preserve when the page was loaded.

Thanks to Moment.js for the JavaScript date handling library.

Links: Plugin Homepage | Plugin Directory Page | GitHub | Author Homepage

Template Tags

The plugin provides one template tag for use in your theme templates, functions.php, or plugins.

Functions

Gets the formatted time for the site.

Arguments

$time_format (string)
Optional. PHP-style time format string. See https://php.net/date for more info. Default is ” (which, unless otherwise modified, uses the default time forat: ‘g:i A’).
$echo (bool)
Optional. Echo the template info? Default is true.

Examples

c2c_blog_time(); ?>
$site_date = c2c_blog_time( 'M d, Y', false ); ?>

Hooks

The plugin exposes four filters for hooking. Code using these filters should ideally be put into a mu-plugin or site-specific plugin (which is beyond the scope of this readme to explain). Less ideally, you could put them in your active theme’s functions.php file.

c2c_blog_time (filter)

The ‘c2c_blog_time’ hook allows you to use an alternative approach to safely invoke c2c_blog_time() in such a way that if the plugin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the function won’t cause errors in your site.

Arguments:

same as for c2c_blog_time()

Example:

Instead of:

Do:

c2c_blog_time_format (filter)

The ‘c2c_blog_time_format’ hook allows you to customize the default format for the blog time. By default this is ‘g:i A’ (though this may be different if modified by localization).

Arguments:

$format (string): The default format for the blog time.

Example:

/**
 * Change the default blog time string
 *
 * @param string $format The default time format.
 * @return string
 */
function change_blog_time_format( $format ) {
    return 'b, g:i A';
}
add_filter( 'c2c_blog_time_format', 'change_blog_time_format' );

c2c_blog_time_toolbar_widget_for_user (filter)

The ‘c2c_blog_time_toolbar_widget_for_user’ hook allows you to control if the admin toolbar clock widget should be shown, on a per-user basis. By default the admin toolbar clock is shown to everyone who can see the admin toolbar.

Arguments:

$shown (boolean): Whether the admin toolbar clock widget should be shown. Default of true.

Example:

/**
 * Only show the admin toolbar clock for the 'boss' user.
 *
 * @param $show bool Status of whether the admin toolbar clock should be shown.
 * @return bool
 */
function restrict_blog_time_widget_appearance( $show ) {
    return 'boss' == get_current_user()->user_login;
}
add_filter( 'c2c_blog_time_toolbar_widget_for_user', 'restrict_blog_time_widget_appearance' );

c2c_blog_time_active_clock (filter)

The ‘c2c_blog_time_active_clock’ hook returns the boolean value indicating if the Javascript-powered dynamic clock introduced in v2.0 should be enabled or if instead the v1.x era behavior of a static timestamp that can be clicked to update the timestamp via AJAX should be enabled. By default the dynamic clock is enabled.

Arguments:

$allow (boolean): Boolean indicating if the admin widget should be a dynamic clock. Default is true.

Example:

// Disable the dynamic clock and use the static timestamp (whcih can be clicked to update the time via AJAX) instead.
add_filter( 'c2c_blog_time_active_clock', '__return_false' );

Performance

Memory Usage

Average memory usage is 35.85 KB
This is less than 99% plugins

Page Speed

Average page loading time is increased by 0.03 s
This is faster than 99% plugins

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- 0.03s

/(front page)

+ 0.13s

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

- 0.02s

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 0.1s

/wp-admin/edit.php

- 0.02s

/wp-admin/index.php

- 0.06s

/wp-admin/media-new.php

- 0.08s

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

- 0.01s

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 0.01s

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 0.12s

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

- 0.12s

/wp-admin/upload.php

- 0.39s

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+ 35.85KB

/ (front page)

+ 4.03KB

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 3.55KB

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 3.89KB

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 11.88KB

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 3.78KB

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 3.73KB

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 3.85KB

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 1.78KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 4.86KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 4.31KB

/wp-admin/upload.php

+ 3.63KB

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