Description
Admin Toolbar Live Clock keeps the current time and date always in view while you work in wp-admin.
It’s ideal for editors and admins who constantly check scheduled content, cron jobs, moderation timestamps, or who manage sites across different time-zones.
Designed for daily professional use: lightweight, clean UI, no clutter — and optional “Minimal mode” when you want the plugin at its simplest.
Who benefits?
- Editors coordinating global content releases
- Support agents logging activity against a consistent time source
- Developers verifying scheduled tasks (WP-Cron / Action Scheduler)
- Multisite admins overseeing sites across regions
Feature highlights
- Live ticking — updates every second (no page reloads, no Ajax polling)
- Display modes — choose Digital or the new Analog clock mode
- Analog clock (new)
- Multiple themes (including Tomanify)
- Size options (Small / Large)
- Optional date display inside the analog face
- Floating clock (new) — show the clock as a floating widget in wp-admin
- Analog mode uses the floating view automatically
- Draggable position (new) — drag the floating clock and it remembers its position for next visits
- Minimal mode (new) — disables advanced styling/options and keeps only the core settings
- Calendars — Gregorian, Persian (Jalali), Islamic (Hijri), Hebrew, Buddhist (Thai) and Japanese
- Plugin language — choose the plugin language independently from the WordPress site language
- Languages bundled – en_US, fa_IR, ar, es_ES, fr_FR, he_IL, hi_IN, ja, th_TH, de_DE, ru_RU, tr_TR, ps_AF, uk_UA, pl_PL, ro_RO, zh_CN, ko_KR (+ fully translatable via PO/MO)
- Time formats — 12-hour or 24-hour
- Timezone — use the site timezone or pick any IANA timezone
- Colour controls — clock & date colours (where applicable)
- Tabbed settings UI (new) — cleaner settings screen with General / Style / About
- Admin-only — visible only in wp-admin (never on the front-end)
- Clean uninstall — removes plugin options on Delete via
uninstall.php
Find the settings page at Settings Toolbar Clock.
Author
Developed by Amin Raoufi.
Screenshots
Digital clock in the admin toolbar (live time & date). 
Analog clock (floating) with theme + size options.
Installation
From the WordPress plugin directory (recommended)
- Go to Plugins Add New
- Search for “Admin Toolbar Live Clock”
- Click Install Now, then Activate
- Open Settings Toolbar Clock and configure the plugin
Manual upload
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate it via Plugins Installed Plugins
- Open Settings Toolbar Clock, adjust options, then click Save Changes
FAQ
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Will front-end visitors see the clock?
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No. The clock is for wp-admin only.
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Where is the settings page?
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Go to Settings Toolbar Clock.
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How do I enable Analog mode?
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Open Settings Toolbar Clock Style and switch Display mode to Analog.
Analog mode uses the floating clock automatically. -
How do I move the floating clock?
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Enable Drag & remember position, then drag the floating clock to your preferred spot.
Position is saved per browser (via local storage), so each device/browser can have its own placement. -
I dragged it off-screen — how do I reset the position?
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Disable dragging and re-enable it, or clear the browser’s site storage for wp-admin.
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Can I translate the plugin?
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Yes. The plugin is fully translatable via PO/MO files (text-domain:
admin-toolbar-live-clock).
You can also choose the plugin language directly from the settings screen.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Admin Toolbar Live Clock” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Admin Toolbar Live Clock” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Admin Toolbar Live Clock” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.1.1
- Hotfix: corrected release packaging and restored missing asset files.
- Ensured stable build for all users updating from version 1.1.0.
1.1.0
- Added Analog clock mode with selectable themes, optional date display, and size options.
- Added Floating clock mode in wp-admin (Analog mode automatically uses floating view).
- Added Drag & remember position for the floating clock.
- Added Minimal mode to keep only core settings and disable advanced styling options.
- Rebuilt settings UI into tabs: General / Style / About (About includes project info and License & Credits modal).
- Improved UX: keep the selected tab after saving settings; show disabled fields instead of hiding them in Minimal mode.
- Fixed Analog initialization flicker.
- Restructured assets into standard WordPress folders.
- WPCS and Plugin Check improvements.
- Added bundled translations: German, Russian, Turkish, Pashto, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, Chinese (Simplified), and Korean.
1.0.2
- Added “Settings” link to plugin list on Plugins screen.
- Added option: “Make clock clickable” to open plugin settings via the admin-bar clock.
- Minor improvements to toolbar rendering logic for consistent ID targeting.
1.0.1
- Switched inline
<script>/<style>blocks to properwp_enqueue_*calls. - Added dedicated admin stylesheet and settings script.
- Added colour-picker values sanitised via
sanitize_hex_color(). - Minor WPCS / PHPCS fixes.
1.0.0
- Initial public release:
- Real-time JavaScript clock
- Multiple calendar systems
- Time format selection (12h/24h)
- Timezone override
- Native WP colour-picker
- Clean uninstall routine