Every January 1st I take a quick look at my websites to make sure the year is current in the footer. This year, I thought it might be helpful to share those steps with you.
- WordPress Footers and footer.php
- Divi from Elegant Themes – edit in customizer
- Update footer on you Teachable website
- Automatic Footer Updates
WordPress Footers and footer.php
If you’re using WordPress, you’re probably already using a child theme, and most likely have a footer.php file already. I’ve posted some extra info below.
If you don’t have a child theme, do a quick search to find out how to update the copyright with the theme you’re using, and skip the rest of this post 🙂
Assuming you have a footer.php file, follow these steps.
- Go to Appearance > Editor > Select your child theme
- click on Footer.php file
- Look for the section that includes your copyright information
- update the year
- save your changes
Don’t have a footer.php or a child theme?
Creating a child theme is pretty easy, but it looks a bit scary, because it requires using file names like .php and going into the Cpanel to add files. It involves a bit more than just clicking “add new theme”, but it’s not that bad, either.
Divi from Elegant Themes – edit in customizer
If you’re using divi, you can make these changes easily within your theme (be sure to use a child theme). Follow these simple steps:
- While logged into your dashboard, select Divi > Theme Customizer
- Expand the Footer options
- Open the Bottom Bar options
- Scroll down to “edit footer credits” and update with your current year info
- Click the Publish button and then you can close the theme customizer
Update footer on your Teachable website
☐ Go to Admin > Site > Custom Text
☐ Use Ctrl + F to use the “find” tool”
☐ Type in the word “Footer”, and you should jump to the footer section
☐ Edit the text in the right column to include © 2018
☐ Click “Save”
© will switch to the © (copyright sign)
It will display as © 2018 Your School Name, like this:
You can see the conversation in the Teachable Tribe Facebook Group here
Automatically updating, in case you forget
There’s some code you can use to make it automatically update, but I find that sometimes when we make simple updates to our footer info (like adding an affiliate link, or mentioning a new theme or plugin) that it’s easy to break the code & end up with a funny looking copyright line instead (oops)
The code looks like this:
© 2018 – <?php echo date('Y'); ?> YourSite.com
And you can learn more from this post at wpbeginner.
Hope this helps… Happy New Year!
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