Auto Update Website Footer Date with JavaScript

The Problem: Every year the footer of your personal or company website will need to be updated. It would be a waste of your time and you would risk breaking your code if you needed to update every single webpage to type “2020” in the footer of the page. This should be automated.

The Solution: Use JavaScript to get the date, set it as a variable, and display the result in the footer of the page.

<script type="text/javascript"> //Declares the JavaScript
   
   let d = new Date(); // Creates a variable and calls Date Object
   
   document.write(d.getFullYear()); // Calls getFullYear method on variable d(new Date() Object) and displays year

</script> // Closing bracket

The code above can be copied and pasted into the footer of your website pages. If you have a couple of static pages, it isn’t a big deal to edit each page. In my case, I added the code to the footer.php file for my custom WordPress theme. WordPress automatically appends the footer.php to every new post or page that I create. Now a user will always see a dynamically generated date at the bottom of the page.

Food Inventory

The Problem: Opening and digging through a smaller chest freezer. Also, need a way to keep track of food inventory for quarantine.
The Solution: A database accessible from my phone to add, remove, update, or delete items. At the grocery I can see what I have or don’t have at home.

Total Records Found: 93, showing 20 per page
CountItemBrandOuncesCategoryLocationUpdated
3 Burger Rastelli 5 Meat Downstairs Freezer November 29, 2020
2 Steak Ribeye Giant 16 Meat Downstairs Freezer November 5, 2020
4 Chicken Pot Pie Marie Callenders 10 Meat Downstairs Freezer November 5, 2020
1 Turkey Ground Natures Promise 16 Meat Downstairs Freezer November 5, 2020
1 Sausage Turkey Breakfast Applegate 7 Meat Downstairs Freezer November 5, 2020
5 Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich Nestle 4 Snack Downstairs Freezer November 5, 2020
2 Beef Ground Generic 20 Meat Downstairs Freezer October 13, 2020
1 Broccoli Cheese Nuggets Earths Best 8 Vegetable Downstairs Freezer October 10, 2020
1 French Fries Crinkle Cut Market Pantry 32 Vegetable Downstairs Freezer October 10, 2020
1 Ice Cream Mint Chocolate Chip Hersheys 48 Snack Downstairs Freezer September 30, 2020
1 Broccoli Florets Generic 32 Vegetable Downstairs Freezer September 30, 2020
1 Cauliflower Giant 16 Vegetable Downstairs Freezer September 30, 2020
1 Veggie Tots McCain 12 Vegetable Upstairs Freezer September 28, 2020
2 Chicken Cordon Bleu Barber Foods 5 Meat Downstairs Freezer September 28, 2020
1 Bacon Classic Cut Hatfield 16 Meat Downstairs Freezer September 22, 2020
1 Chicken Breast BBQ Cook In Bag Giant 32 Meat Downstairs Freezer September 22, 2020
1 Chicken Thighs Carnitas Cook In Bag Giant 32 Meat Downstairs Freezer September 22, 2020
2 Ravioli Cheese Tallutos 15 Dairy Downstairs Freezer September 22, 2020
1 Veggie Tots Green Giant 14 Vegetable Downstairs Freezer September 22, 2020
1 Chocolate Creme Pie Edwards 1 Snack Downstairs Freezer September 22, 2020

OUT OF STOCK:

Total Records Found: 30, showing 20 per page
CountItemBrandOuncesCategoryLocationUpdated
0 Ice Cream Philadelphia Vanilla Greens 48 Snack Downstairs Freezer August 26, 2020
0 Broccoli Cauliflower Carrots Generic 16 Vegetable Downstairs Freezer August 26, 2020
0 Chicken Breast Adobo Marinated Generic 16 Meat Downstairs Freezer August 16, 2020
0 Steak Filet Mignon Generic 9 Meat Downstairs Freezer August 13, 2020
0 Steak Sirloin Generic 11 Meat Downstairs Freezer July 30, 2020
0 Sausage Sweet Italian Generic 4 Meat Downstairs Freezer July 27, 2020
0 Burger Omaha Steaks 4 Meat Downstairs Freezer July 18, 2020
0 Pork Chops Generic 21 Meat Downstairs Freezer July 16, 2020
0 Shrimp Calypso Coconut Margaritaville 10 Fish Downstairs Freezer July 9, 2020
0 Peas Carrots Generic 16 Vegetable Downstairs Freezer June 26, 2020


I customized the WordPress plugin “Participants Database” to Create, Read, Update, and Delete food items. Anyone can add items but a WordPress login is required to update or delete food items.