Print the current date in a text box/button

try using that little snippet in your child theme functions.php:

function show_date_with_shortcode() { 
  date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');
  setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE.UTF-8');
  $date = date_i18n( 'l \d\e\n ' . get_option( 'date_format' ) . ' ' . get_option( 'time_format' ). ' \U\h\r'  );
  return $date ;
}
add_shortcode( 'show_date', 'show_date_with_shortcode' );

use it as shortcode in your text : [show_date]

this is for my german language a binding word \d \e \n will end in Freitag den 17.04.1968
the rest will be corresponding to your lang settings – but if you like to have that binding word f.e. the then use \t\h\e
if you don’t like the time in this shortcode – just remove that part:
$date = date_i18n( 'l \d\e\n ' . get_option( 'date_format' ) );

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or style a kind of calendar sheet:

function datum_shortcode() {
  date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Berlin");
  setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE.UTF8');
  $year = date_i18n('Y');
  $day = date_i18n('d');
  $month = date_i18n('F');
  $weekday = date_i18n('l');
  $weekdaycolor = date_i18n('l') == 'Sonntag' ? 'red': 'gray' ;
  $uhrzeit = date_i18n( get_option( 'time_format' ) );

  $datum = '<div id="calendar_sheet"><div class="month-year"><span class="month">'.$month.'</span><span class="year">' .$year.'</span></div><div class="day ' .$weekdaycolor.'">'.$day.'</div><div class="weekday">'.$weekday.'</div><div class="time">'.$uhrzeit.'</div></div>';
  return $datum;
}
add_shortcode('calendar_sheet', 'datum_shortcode');

here use it as shortcode in your text: [calendar_sheet]

some css for it:

#calendar_sheet{
text-align:center;
display: inline-block;
border:1px solid #eee;
border-top:15px solid #0076ba;
-webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 2px #ccc;
-moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 2px #ccc;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 2px #ccc;
background:#fafafa;
padding: 5px;
min-width: 150px;
}

.month-year .month,
.month-year .year {
  padding: 0 5px
}

.day {
  font-size:48px;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-family: times;
  padding: 10px 0 0;
}

.day.red {
    color: red;
}

#calendar_sheet .time {
  font-size: 24px;
}

see both shortcodes in action on: https://enfold.webers-webdesign.de/3-columns/

again adjust to your language: so for red Sundays change that Sonntag to Sunday in weekday color ;)
and change to your local time in these lines:

date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Berlin");
  setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE.UTF8');

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Yigit.