Add a dynamic date in a divi code module

If you are not familiar with a dynamic date, it is a date that is dynamically generated by the server. A good use case is your copyright notice at the bottom of your website. Using a dynamic date, you will not have to update that every year as it will be dynamically updated by the server.

Thankfully, if you are like me and are too lazy or have too many clients to update every year, it is relatively easy to setup to do so automatically.

Add a Dynamic Date in a Divi Code Module

You will need a child theme and access to the functions.php file to use the code snippet.

Copy and paste the code below into your functions.php file

function displayTodaysDate( $atts ) {
  $year = date('Y');
  return $year;
    }
    add_shortcode( 'datetoday', 'displayTodaysDate');

Now you can add a Divi Code module anywhere in your site and call the date by adding the following into your code module

[shortcodename] in our example above it would be datetoday

If you want to display it in a better format, you could use the following;

Copyright © [shortcodename] Sitename

Just remember to change “Sitename” to your actual site’s name.

And that is it! From now on, you will no longer have to update that footer date as it will be dynamically managed by the code you have entered above.