Display Current Year in Wordpress

php, wordpress

Solution

Why don't you create the simple shortcode function for this purpose?

function currentYear( $atts ){
    return date('Y');
}
add_shortcode( 'year', 'currentYear' );

Then you will be able to put [year] to anywhere in the content area.

Problem

I need to display the current year in Wordpress, now this is already being done in the footer template using php: ``` <?php echo date('Y'); ?> ``` The site in question is for a car dealer. So there are many year model references in the page/post content ie. ``` <h1>2013 Volkswagen Polo</h1> ``` All of these need updated on the first of January each year. However the php code doesn't work within the page/post content, only in template files. So I need a different way to do this. Any ideas? Thanks in advance Willem

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