Ya.....like I said...It worked before the update I did. And I don't think the dev for RealMOTD messed with the plugin besides bug fixes and adding bolding, underlining, and strikeout to the text. It might be a bug now though because the variable for the day the minecraft server world is on doesn't work anymore for me, I just get a %day% in my server day sentence.
So maybe the way to activate it through using all the colors as such,
blackblackdark_bluedark_greendark_aquadark_reddark_purplegoldgrayyellowwhite
doesn't work anymore.