Description
The lightest, fastest and most beautiful local-time plugin for WordPress. Drop one shortcode and every visitor instantly sees your dates in their own timezone — including automatic daylight-saving handling.
[gtg_time date="2025-12-25 15:00:00"] December 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM (their local time)
[gtg_time date="2025-08-20 14:00:00" format="g:i A (T)"] 4:00 PM (CEST)
Perfect for
- Flash sales & limited offers
- Webinars & live streams
- Course launches
- Event sites
- Global WooCommerce stores
- Webinar landing pages
Free features (everything you need to get started)
[gtg_time]and[local_time]shortcodes- Full Gutenberg block (“Local Time”)
- Beautiful purple badge with hover effect (or plain text)
- Automatic timezone detection via the browser (Intl API + cookie)
- Real conversion + unique-timezone stats on the admin dashboard
- Works perfectly with WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, Cloudflare, SiteGround, Kinsta — all caches & CDNs
- No JavaScript loaded on pages without the shortcode (~4 KB total)
- Zero configuration — works out of the box
Pro version — premium AI included
Global Time Ghost Pro builds on the free plugin with AI-powered scheduling and deep WooCommerce / Events Calendar / LearnDash integration.
- AI Optimal Posting Times — per-timezone publish recommendations (powered by Claude Sonnet 4.6)
- AI Smart Scheduling — auto-schedule posts at the right local time for each region
- AI Multi-Region Variants — region-aware copy generation for sales, events and webinars
- WooCommerce auto-convert — order, sale and deadline times in every visitor’s clock
- The Events Calendar + LearnDash — full auto-conversion across event and course pages
- Custom badge colors + timezone dropdown widget + conversion analytics
- Premium AI credits included with every Pro plan (50 / 200 / 1000 per month). Credits are shared with SiteFix Pro and Clarity SEO Pro.
- Priority support — 24-hour response on business days
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Screenshots
Beautiful purple badge with hover effect — works anywhere on your site. 
Modern admin dashboard with real conversion stats.
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- Local Time Display a fixed UTC time in the visitor's local timezone.
Installation
- Upload to
/wp-content/plugins/or install via WordPress. - Activate the plugin.
- Drop
[gtg_time date="2025-12-25 15:00:00"]anywhere in your content, or use the “Local Time” Gutenberg block. - Done. No settings required.
FAQ
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Does this work with page caching?
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Yes — Global Time Ghost was built specifically for cached sites. Times are rendered on the server in UTC, then localised in the visitor’s browser via a tiny JavaScript snippet (~4 KB) and a cookie. WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, Cloudflare, SiteGround, Kinsta — all work flawlessly.
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Does it handle daylight saving time?
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Yes. The browser reports the IANA timezone (e.g.
Europe/Amsterdam) and PHP’sDateTimeZonehandles the DST math automatically. -
Will visitors see the wrong time on the first page load?
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No. The first render uses UTC; once the timezone cookie is set the displayed time updates instantly. Most users never notice — and the badge degrades gracefully even with JavaScript disabled.
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How do I display only the time, not the date?
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Use the
formatattribute:[gtg_time date="2025-08-20 14:00:00" format="g:i A"] -
Does it support The Events Calendar / WooCommerce / LearnDash?
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Auto-conversion of plugin-managed dates (Events Calendar, WooCommerce, LearnDash, EDD) is a Pro feature. The free plugin works on any date you pass to the shortcode or block.
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Where is my data stored?
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Locally — only the visitor’s selected timezone is stored, and only in a first-party cookie (
gtg_user_tz). Conversion counts are stored as anonymous totals in the WordPress options table. Nothing is sent to PluginJoy. -
How do I remove the badge styling?
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Add
style="plain"to the shortcode:[gtg_time date="2025-08-20 14:00:00" style="plain"]
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Contributors & Developers
“Global Time Ghost – Local Time Converter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
2.4.0
- New: Real conversion + unique-timezone tracking on the admin dashboard (replaces the placeholder counters).
- New: 5-star review reminder banner — appears once after 7 days, fully dismissable, with “I already reviewed” option.
- New: “Get Pro” link added to the plugins-page action row.
- Updated: Pro upsell card refreshed with the new subscription model and AI features (replaces the legacy lifetime $39 messaging).
- Updated: readme refreshed for Pro Subscription + Premium AI credits + shared-pool messaging across SiteFix Pro / Clarity SEO Pro.
- Tested up to WordPress 6.9.
2.3.0
- Performance: ~4 KB total payload, only loaded on pages that use the shortcode or block.
- Improved: badge hover effect.
- Improved: cache + CDN compatibility (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, Cloudflare, SiteGround, Kinsta).
2.2.0
- Added: Gutenberg “Local Time” block.
- Improved: shortcode parsing.