How to Have Your Site’s Date Automatically Update Each Year

icon1 Posted by Rochelle in How To... on 02 10th, 2008 | 5 responses

Build A Niche Store (aka BANS) sites built with v2 have a copyright notice and date added to the footer of every template. The date that is added is 2007. As of this writing it is now 2008 but all v2 sites still say 2007. Wrong dates make sites look forgotten. Unless, of course, the owners of each site manually change the date for every store OR add the mod below.

Adding this mod to your sites will ensure that the date in the footer will update automatically. Yes, all by its self! Believe me that adding this mod is much easier than having to remember to go back, year after year, to every store and change the date.

I apologize but I don’t remember who created this mod. If the person who made it lets me know I will gladly give credit where it is due.

 

My instructions to have your site’s date automatically update each year:

Start
 Log in to your site’s Admin. Click on the ‘Template‘ tab and ‘footer.php‘ link for the template you are using.
  
 Save a copy of the original code (click here for instructions on how to do this).
  
 Search for Copyright © 2007. Replace 2007 with the contents from year-auto-update.txt.
  
 Save changes and view site for errors.
done

Rochelle

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5 Responses to “How to Have Your Site’s Date Automatically Update Each Year”

  1. How I Create a New Niche Store | Niche Store Strategies says:
    February 24, 2008 at 6:54 pm

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  2. JeffLeft says:
    August 15, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    Thanks Rochelle.. also was wondering if you could give me the filenames to edit the BAR colors on the new theme Mark just put out? I saw where he told you to update the one across the top but i can’t figure out how to change the others.

    Thanks again..

    ohhh, did you get my PM on the BANS site? I’m wondering if my PM’s are going through over there..

  3. Rochelle says:
    August 15, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    @Jeff,

    Thanks so much for letting me know you sent me a PM in the forum. Apparently, we need to redo our options, including being notified of PMs. I just replied to yours.

    The navbar color can be editied in the NAVDROP.CSS file, which is located in: blog / wp-content / themes / BANS-WordPress / incs

    Rochelle

  4. Rochelle says:
    August 15, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    For my own records, here are the changes I did to Mark’s latest BANS/Blog template to shorten the header area:

    STYLES.CSS

    #top {
    height: 85px;

    .blogtitle:hover{
    padding:10;
    top-padding:10px;

    #hdrleft {
    height: 50px;
    margin-top: 10px;

    #hdrright
    height: 50px;

    /* #hdrad {
    float: right;
    height: 30px;
    width: 468px;
    margin-top: 15px;
    margin-right: 0px;
    } */

    NAVDROP.CSS:

    #nav, #nav ul {
    height: 31px;

    Rochelle

  5. JeffLeft says:
    August 16, 2008 at 11:16 am

    Is that file used to change ALL the colors? The long one across the top as well as the short ones on both sidebars?
    thanks!

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