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I often want to add the current date to the footer in Divi<\/a> for the copyright statement. I don't want to have to go back through hundreds of websites every year to update the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is that the Divi footer doesn't allow for shortcodes and there is no filter you can hook into to process the text before it's output.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Many tutorials say to replace the footer.php file, but that's unnecessary and complete overkill for something so simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, Divi checks for the existence of et_get_footer_credits()<\/em> before processing, meaning the developers intended us to overwrite it in our child theme if we needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to add the current date to the Divi footer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To add the current date, or any custom HTML to the Divi footer, we create a function in the functions.php<\/em> file of our child theme<\/a> called et_get_footer_credits()<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we just return whatever we want the footer bottom bar text to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this example, I'm going to replicate the essential Divi code, which keeps it simple and uses their existing security checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The code to add the current date is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

function et_get_footer_credits() {\n  $credits_format = '<%2$s id=\"footer-info\">%1$s<\/%2$s>';\n  $footer_credits = \"\u00a9 Local Biz Wiz 2019 - \" . date(\"Y\");\n  return et_get_safe_localization( sprintf( $credits_format, $footer_credits, 'div' ) );\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This will output \"\u00a9 Local Biz Wiz 2019 - 2022. All Rights Reserved.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make sure you change the $footer_credits<\/em> line to the text you want for your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The PHP code for outputting the current year is date(\"Y\")<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have a look through the PHP date formatting documentation<\/a> if you need a variation other than the four digit year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to do your own safety checks, or you just want the simplest version, you can just output the desired HTML in the return<\/em> statement without the other lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Theme Customizer<\/strong> -> Footer<\/strong> -> Bottom Bar<\/strong>, you can leave edit footer credits<\/em> blank, or just a note to remind you that you've overwritten it in functions.php<\/em>. It doesn't matter, only people with theme edit capabilities will see the note.<\/p>\n\n\n
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And that's the easy way to add the current year to the footer in WordPress Divi theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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