Eric Hicks Freelance WordPress Web Developer

Custom WordPress shortcode to display current year

Nov 17, 2014 | Blog, Code, Wordpress

Place this code in your theme’s functions.php file to address that pesky problem of copyright dates in the footer not having the current year displayed!! /* shortcode for the current year */ function year_shortcode() { $year = date(‘Y’); return...

Use PHP’s date function to keep your Copyright date current

Jan 7, 2011 | Blog, Code

Nothing screams “THIS WEBSITE HASN’T BEEN UPDATED IN A WHILE” like an out-of-date copyright notice in your footer. Several years ago, I decided to code a little smarter, and on every website that I’m responsible for, I insert a PHP snippet that displays the current...