The WordPress theme I am using on one of my sites has a widget area to embed text at the footer of the site. I saw it as a great place to include the popular copyright text found in most website Copyright © 2017, ProductNameHere..
I visited the site today and found out I haven’t updated the year to 2017. To permanently fix this, I knew the solution was to code a WordPress shortcode that will display the current year. I decided to research if a plugin exist for it before I code one up myself. Thankfully, I stumbled on Shortcode for Current Date plugin.
The plugin allows you to display current date and time in any supported PHP date format.
Back to my problem. I was able to solve it by adding this shortcode (powered by the aforementioned plugin) to the footer widget area.
[current_date format='Y']
It’s worth noting you can also use this shortcode (and any WordPress shortcode) in a post and page.
La Fin!