Display Current Year in Wordpress

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

A little modification of previous answer which also works fine:

in functions.php:

<?php
    function currentYear(){
        return date('Y');
    }
?>

then in footer.php (or anywhere as mentioned before):

<p>&copy; 2016-<?php echo currentYear(); ?> <a href="#">your_homepage_title</a></p>