Auto Update Website Footer Date with JavaScript

June 27, 2020 by Ray Sanchez

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

June 20, 2020 by Ray Sanchez

OUT OF STOCK:

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.