Post Date Randomizer

by wellbeingtips

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56 Quality Score

Active Installs

18/30

Active installs sit around 9,000, a modest but engaged user base for such a niche utility.

Update Freshness

9/25

The plugin was last updated in April 2025 and is tested against WordPress 6.7.5, so it is current, though release cadence has been thin given the low install count.

User Rating

15/15

All 10 raters gave it a perfect score, producing a 100/100, but the tiny sample size means this is more signal than proof.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads and zero resolved tickets leave the support health a genuine question mark, since there is simply no public track record to judge.

WP Compatibility

8/15

WordPress 5.0 is the stated minimum, and PHP version is unspecified, which is a gap for strict hosts that enforce a PHP floor.

Scores higher than 6% of indexed plugins

About

Simple plugin that bulk changes the publication date of published posts and/or approved comments to random dates within a specified time range.

Active Installs 9k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2025-04-06 2:01pm GMT

Requires WordPress 5.0+

Tested Up To 6.7.7

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Post Date Randomizer bulk rewrites the published dates of posts and approved comments to random timestamps drawn from a user-specified date range. It runs server-side on existing content rather than scheduling future posts, making it a one-shot data migration or obfuscation tool. Post slugs, IDs, and content bodies remain untouched, only the date-related fields are altered.

Who It's For

This plugin fits site owners who deliberately want to disguise chronological clues, such as forum-style archives being scrambled for anonymization, dating site profile batches that need plausible backdated activity, or developers building demo data sets that span months or years. It also suits anyone moving legacy posts into a new content library where the original dates would be misleading.

Who Should Skip It

Anyone who just wants to change one post's date, schedule future publishing, or rely on accurate publish dates for SEO and content organization has no business installing this. Real blogs that need honest timestamps will be actively harmed by randomizing them.

The Bottom Line

Post Date Randomizer does one narrow job well and has not been broken by recent WordPress releases, but the near-empty support history and the destructive nature of its core function give pause. It earns a 59.78 quality score, which is fair for a working but minimally supported niche tool. Use it only if you fully understand that randomizing dates is irreversible without a database restore.