Current Year Shortcode

Descrición

This is a plugin which adds a simple shortcode to display the current year or a dynamic year range, particularly useful for copyright statements at the bottom of your website.

Its most basic usage is [year], which will display the current year. If you provide a starting year with the ‘from’ parameter, it will expand into a date range when the ‘from’ year is before the current year.

If [year] is used by another plugin, then it uses the fallback [runthings_year] which can be customised with the runthings_current_year_shortcode_tag filter. You can see the active shortcode tag in it entry in the installed plugins page.

Features

• Display current year with [year]
• Create a dynamic year range with [year from="2020"]
• Abbreviated year format with [year from="2020" mode="short"], which shows “2020-25” (if the current year is 2025)
• Automatic fallback shortcode [runthings_year] if another plugin already uses the ‘year’ shortcode
• Filter (runthings_current_year_shortcode_tag) to set your own shortcode

Usage Examples

Assuming the current year is 2025:

• [year] displays “2025”
• [year from="2025"] displays “2025” (since it’s the current year)
• [year from="1983"] displays “1983-2025”
• [year from="2020" mode="short"] displays “2020-25” (shortened current year)
• [year from="1995" mode="short"] displays “1995-2025” (not shortened because centuries differ)

Filters

runthings_current_year_shortcode_tag

This filter allows customization of the shortcode tag used by the plugin.

For detailed documentation and examples, see the full documentation on GitHub.

Parameters:

1. $tag (string): The shortcode tag to be registered. Defaults to ‘year’ or ‘runthings_year’ if conflicted.

Additional Notes

Built by Matthew Harris of runthings.dev, copyright 2021-2025.

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License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.

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