Best Way to Change a String in a WordPress Post

You can create a new shortcode with this code 

add_shortcode("currentDay", function ($attr, $content, $tag) {

    $date = current_time("Y-m-d");

    return $date;

});

and you just have to put [currentDay] in the content

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