SubscribeLet Your Server Update Your Copyright Year
2008 is now 48 days old, yet there are a number of sites which still think its 2007.
To name but a few:
Rather than include the year in the site’s footer as text, which has to be manually updated, why not use the date on your server to do the work for you.
If you use PHP on your server, like every WordPress blog does, you can replace “2007″, or even “2008″ so you are ready for next year, with the following snippet:
<?php echo date(’Y'); ?>
Although this does rely on server’s date and time being correct. You can ensure that your server has the correct date and time by synchronizing your server with an Internet Time Server. The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides a number of time servers through the United States. Be sure to check the status of the time servers to help you make the best choice.
Love or hate them, Microsoft provides a list of time servers available throughout the world.
For Windows users you configure the use of an Internet Time Server within the “Internet Time” tab of the “Date and Time Properties” section of the Control Panel - just make sure that you have set the correct time zone.
Rather than exclusively copyrighting the content of your Web site or blog, wouldn’t it be better to allow people to re-use the content and give a credit in return? For businesses who wants everyone to know about their products this would be the sensible approach.
BlogWell uses a Creative Commons licensing, which allows anyone to share and remix our work, provided we receive an attribution and that any such work is licensed in a similar manner (i.e. it too can be shared and remixed by others). You can see the specific license we use in the footer - check it out.
We suggest that you should review the reason why your site contains a copyright - most times this is simply due it being present in the site template or WordPress theme.
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Another good point when it comes to SEO. I have been doing this for years because, well, I’m a developer and we tend to make things functional…even down to the little details like this, but I had not thought about blogging about this on my SEO/Site Promotion blog. Good one.
[...] Let Your Server Update Your Copyright Year - A great find from my CommentLuv plugin this week! This post comes from MadLid of Blogwell and explains how we can get our server to update the Copyright year automatically rather than typing it into the text area of our blog. I didn’t even know that was possible! [...]
This is the best thing about using open source php. you can see the codes and modify yourself.
I always battling myself whether to write my own niche site codes (I am a php expert) or use one of those freely available like wordpress or drupal.
The problem with wordpress, to make small changes (like the year thing above) is rather easy. But if you require major changes, try looking at the codes and god forbid.. it is a jungle of spaghetti.
I decided to write my own codes for small niches websites. The result…. it took me more than 2 years… and still no result.
If I decided to stick to the wordpress code and satisfied with whatever available… my site now could have been more than 2 years old! And I could have earn more than John Chow!