How to Display a Dynamics Date Copyright

Have you ever seen, some time website has Copyright on the footer? Example on WordPress Tricks Copyright © 2010 – WordPress Tricks & Tips is proudly powered by WordPress, On this tutorial I will show you How to Create and Display a Dynamics Date Copyright in WordPress. All need to do only writen a functions in your theme functions.php and use Add Filter or manually insert code on your footer.

How to Display a Dynamics Date Copyright

Write down Dynamics Date Copyright function below

<?php // display range of dates for copyright @ WPTricks.net
function do_copyright() {
	global $wpdb;
	$copyright_dates = $wpdb->get_results("
		SELECT
			YEAR(min(post_date_gmt)) AS firstdate,
			YEAR(max(post_date_gmt)) AS lastdate
		FROM
			$wpdb->posts
	");
	if($copyright_dates) {
		$copyright = "Copyright &copy; " . $copyright_dates[0]->firstdate;
		if($copyright_dates[0]->firstdate != $copyright_dates[0]->lastdate) {
			$copyright .= '-' . $copyright_dates[0]->lastdate;
		}
		echo $copyright;
	}
}
add_filter('wp_footer', 'do_copyright');
?>

On the code above the functions will be added automatically on your wp_footer(), but if you want manually added, just remark add_filter function and add manually do_copyright() in your footer.php. Thanks for DigWP to share this code and we hope tutorial to display a dynamics date range copyright work on you…