This is a brief post that will explain how to keep the copyright year in your footer automatically updated. This can be accomplished in a number of ways, but this post deals with how to achieve this using PHP.

I'll also show where to add this snippet so that it works in your Joomla!^TM and Worpdress templates. Detailed information on the PHP date function can be found here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php .

Wordpress

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. http://wordpress.org.