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Y'all, today we're gonna work
on a very quick, great tutorial for you.
This is gonna help you have code
that lives in your Divi website
that's gonna help the bottom part, I'll show you right here,
the bottom part always have an updated copyright year.
It's probably one of the more annoying things
that you have to think about at least once a year,
to jump back into all of your websites and update that year,
just to keep it looking fresh.
Well, I have the short code that you can drop in
to keep that year always functioning properly
and it's a set and forget it type of step.
I'm gonna show you right now how to get it done.
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All right, For those of you who are not running on Divi,
I'll give you a link in the description box below
where you can easily go get a tutorial,
a great tutorial that will show you
how to do this on your theme.
But for those of you running on Divi,
I'm gonna recommend that when you log in,
you go into your Theme Builder
and let's go into our global footer,
which is very likely where you have
your copyright information living or you should.
That way you only have to edit it in one spot.
So right now I've got my copyright information
living down here, this is kind of cumbersome,
but you've got 2022 living here.
Well, on January 1, 2023, this is gonna have
to be some homework for me to come into and change.
That's kind of annoying.
Divi allows us to use dynamic content.
So here's how we're gonna build that out.
I want us to go ahead and click a plus
to add a new module in this space
and we're gonna go ahead and look for our text module.
In this space I want us to go ahead
and do one extra little step,
I want us to grab the copyright symbol onto our clipboard.
So toggle over into Visual mode.
We're gonna look right here for this little symbol,
this is for special characters,
open that up, look for the copyright sign
and that's gonna drop that in here in our Visual mode.
I actually wanna copy that,
I'm gonna cut it and put it on my clipboard.
So I just, I highlighted it and I cut it,
so command X, if you're on a Mac or control X,
I'm gonna cut it, put it on my clipboard now.
Now, over here on the right side,
you're gonna see this cool little dynamic icon,
click on that and what you're looking for here
is a way to call content to appear
and we're gonna use the current date.
Before the date appears,
we want to paste in that copyright symbol,
put a space so that there's a little bit of breathing room,
afterward you wanna put in your legal language,
so we're gonna start with a space
and put in whatever legal language you'd want.
I'm just gonna go ahead and fill in
kind of what they have right now.
And then what we wanna do is if you notice right now,
it's actually displaying the full date.
We don't want that, we just want the year.
So you'll scroll down just a little bit here
and you'll be able to format the date
to just being the actual year itself.
So that's where we'll actually go ahead
and drop in just the letter Y, that's it
and it will put the current year living right there.
And I'm gonna click check and I'm gonna click check
and so you can see it now living there,
up here in this section.
I'm gonna go in, I'm gonna remove it from the bottom of this
because that's not dynamic, that is static
and then I wanna go ahead and be sure that that design
is in white and kind of that smaller font.
So we're gonna go back into that module,
go into the Design mode, go into the Text mode,
we're gonna turn that white
and we're gonna just drop down that font size
just a little bit, let's take it down even to like an 11,
I like that, click that check mark
and then of course you're going to save.
And now when you exit, that will live
because we did it inside of our Theme Builder global footer,
we're gonna click save.
Now that will live perfectly at the bottom of our website.
If I click refresh, there it is nicely displayed
and that of course will be changing in January of next year.
Y'all, obviously you're running on the Divi theme.
I have an entire playlist dedicated to the Divi theme,
all the Divi builder and the cool features
that might be in there.
I'll put a link to that playlist
in the description box below or right up here.
I hope that helps you.
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