Simple class for handling auto-updating copyright year in website footers.
As of April 2026, WAJ Copyright Year is a WordPress year plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9.8+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Shortcode for Current Date.
Adds copyright year or interval o’ years where desired. By default, it just shows the current year, as specified by the server ( which is hopefully keeping accurate track o’ time ). Optionally, you can include a start year. If the start year is different from the current year, then it will show an interval ‘tween the start year & current year.
For instance, if you set the start year to 2015, in 2018 you will get the following:
2015 - 2018
You can also set a custom divider if you want the interval sign to look different. For instance, if you don’t want the hyphen to have spaces round it, you could set the divider to “-“, & you will get the following:
2015-2018
<?php
declare( strict_types = 1 );
namespace MyTheme\FooterTemplate
{…| WordPress | 4.9.8+ requiredTested up to 5.2.24 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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