How to autoupdate copyright year
Sometimes when I go blog hopping I’ll notice some sites have a copyright signature. This is a great idea to protect your data, however, when I see them with the wrong year, I think it looks so outdated. (Especially when it’s static, and also on the front page- Yikes!)
To avoid this, it’s better to use a script that will display the year based on the first post and last post year. This way, you will have to never worried about updating the year.
First, please open our beloved functions.php under themes folder, and put this code below in the bottom:
You can modify this section if you want to put in another word before the text:
$copyright = “& my footer copyright - “
To use this function, you can put this function anywhere you want to use this tag:
In my wordpress blog, I want to put this in my footer, so I edit my footer php as follows:
This results in:
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6 Comments
Bob@Madbid
10.02.2011
Absolutely loving these posts at the moment. Simple tips like this are the big differences between owning an amateur and proffesional blog. Keep up the great work BlogFreakz!
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Nancy
10.27.2011
Thanks Bob!
Sometimes simple works best!
Marius
10.13.2011
Hi Nancy,
I’m not sure I understand but you want to display a copyright notice based on the year? Say: your first post is from 1 may 2007, then it will display (c) 2007 on this post particularly ? If not, it’s not simpler to just use:
echo date(‘Y’)
to always display the current year?
Thank you and sorry for my bad english.
Nancy
10.27.2011
Yep that totally works too!
Myrtie
10.13.2011
Does this pull the year from the server time, or from the users system clock? (ie. will it display whatever year the users clock says).
Either way - very useful information! Will save me a tonne of time having to update all my sites!
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Nora @Logo Design
10.27.2011
Very nice tuts. that will help me to keep update! ]thanks for all this nice share:)
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