If you ever get tired of manually updating the year in your footer on your WordPress sites, create a shortcode to update it automatically. This quick tutorial will show you how to create a shortcode so you can insert the text anywhere you’d like.
CODE FOR YOUR FUNCTIONS FILE
<?php
//Allow shortcodes in widgets
add_filter ('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
//Display current year
function year_shortcode() {
$year = date_i18n('Y');
return $year;
}
add_shortcode ('year', 'year_shortcode');
// [year] shortcode => 2022
function od_year_shortcode() { return date('Y'); }
add_shortcode('year', 'od_year_shortcode');
?>Resources
Here are links to the programs and sites I mentioned in the video.
Divi: https://bit.ly/3mun7TN
WordPress: https://wordpress.org/
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