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<p>This is a plugin which adds a simple shortcode to display the current year or a dynamic year range, particularly useful for copyright statements at the bottom of your website.</p>
<p>Its most basic usage is <code>[year]</code>, which will display the current year. If you provide a starting year with the ‘from’ parameter, it will expand into a date range when the ‘from’ year is before the current year.</p>
<p>If <code>[year]</code> is used by another plugin, then it uses the fallback <code>[runthings_year]</code> which can be customised with the <code>runthings_current_year_shortcode_tag</code> filter. You can see the active shortcode tag in it entry in the installed plugins page.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display current year with <code>[year]</code></li>
<li>Create a dynamic year range with <code>[year from="2020"]</code></li>
<li>Abbreviated year format with <code>[year from="2020" mode="short"]</code>, which shows “2020-25” (if the current year is 2025)</li>
<li>Automatic fallback shortcode <code>[runthings_year]</code> if another plugin already uses the ‘year’ shortcode</li>
<li>Filter (<code>runthings_current_year_shortcode_tag</code>) to set your own shortcode</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage Examples</h4>
<p>Assuming the current year is 2025:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>[year]</code> displays “2025”</li>
<li><code>[year from="2025"]</code> displays “2025” (since it’s the current year)</li>
<li><code>[year from="1983"]</code> displays “1983-2025”</li>
<li><code>[year from="2020" mode="short"]</code> displays “2020-25” (shortened current year)</li>
<li><code>[year from="1995" mode="short"]</code> displays “1995-2025” (not shortened because centuries differ)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Filters</h3>
<h4>runthings_current_year_shortcode_tag</h4>
<p>This filter allows customization of the shortcode tag used by the plugin.</p>
<p>For detailed documentation and examples, see the <a href="https://github.com/runthings-dev/runthings-current-year-shortcode#filters" rel="nofollow ugc">full documentation on GitHub</a>.</p>
<p>Parameters:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong><code>$tag</code></strong> (<code>string</code>): The shortcode tag to be registered. Defaults to ‘year’ or ‘runthings_year’ if conflicted.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Additional Notes</h3>
<p>Built by Matthew Harris of runthings.dev, copyright 2021-2025.</p>
<p>Visit <a href="https://runthings.dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">runthings.dev</a> for more WordPress plugins and resources.</p>
<p>Contribute or report issues at <a href="https://github.com/runthings-dev/runthings-current-year-shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html</a>.</p>
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Current Year Shortcode

Adds a shortcode to display the current year or a year range, perfect for copyright statements.

Anthony Montalbano

AMBR Detroit

<p>This plugin makes it easy to create a drop down list of years.  This plugin is compatible with Advanced Custom Fields 4 and 5.</p>
<p>A few example use cases:</p>
<ul>
<li>Selecting credit card expiry</li>
<li>Setting a minimum age (18, 21)</li>
<li>Choose year graduated (option for user to choose Current)</li>
<li>Selecting a decade </li>
<li>And many more!</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin has a wide range of options to give you a range of possibilities of creating a year dropdown.</p>
<p>Plugin’s features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Set the date range relative to number of years before (or after) the current year (i.e. – from current year to 5 years in the future).</li>
<li>Set the date range between exactly 2 years (i.e. – from 1900 – 2016)</li>
<li>Set the incremental step between the range (5 years, 10 years)</li>
<li>Order dates in chronological or reverse chronological order</li>
<li>Allow the user to set the year as “Current” (or any variation of the term)</li>
</ul>


ACF: Dynamic Year Select Field

Great ACF plugin. Couple of little bugs, e.g. in the Edit Field Group page this field trys to stop the Update button action by saying that the page has changed when it shouldn't. Also this field isn't compatible by the ACF Add-on for Admin Columns Pro which means that this field can't be edited using Admin Columns Pro Inline Edit function.

Good little plugn

Adds a dynamic year select option for Advanced Custom Fields.

Current Year Shortcode vs ACF: Dynamic Year Select Field