Dynamically Display Current Year in Post Title

  • Resolved dukearmi

    (@dukearmi)


    6 months, 1 week ago

    Hi there,

    I’ve tried this code to no avail:

    //* Shortcode to display the current year in WordPress
//* shortcode: [year]
add_shortcode( 'year' , 'current_year' );
    function current_year() {
    $year = date("Y");
    return "$year";
}

//* Activate shortcode function in Post Title
add_filter( 'the_title', 'do_shortcode' );

    I’m thinking it might in conflict with another custom code to display the title in a page hero:

    function my_custom_page_hero() {
    // Check if it's not the homepage
if (!is_front_page()) {
    // Output page or post title and post meta
    add_action('generate_after_header', function() {
        ?>
        <div class="page-hero">
            <div class="container">
                <h1><?php
                    if (is_category()) {
                        single_cat_title();
                    } elseif (is_author()) {
                        the_author();
                    } else {
                        echo get_the_title();
                    }
                ?></h1>

    Is there a way to fix this?

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  • ying

    (@yingscarlett)

    Hi there,

    I’m not sure I understand what are you trying to achieve, do you want to add the current year to all titles? Or some specific title?

    Thread Starter dukearmi

    (@dukearmi)

    Hi Ying,

    I’m trying to add the current year to specifc titles using shortcode, if possible.

    • This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by dukearmi.
    ying

    (@yingscarlett)

    Oh, in that case, you need to activate shortcode function for the title using the the_title filter.

    function enable_shortcodes_in_titles($title) {
    // Check if we are in the main query and not in the admin area
    if ( ! is_admin()  && is_main_query() ) {
        $title = do_shortcode($title);
    }
    return $title;
}
add_filter('the_title', 'enable_shortcodes_in_titles');
    Thread Starter dukearmi

    (@dukearmi)

    Just perfect. Thank you so much!

    Thread Starter dukearmi

    (@dukearmi)

    Oh actually even the code use first worked. I just realized I had the PHP code running only in the header. My bad. Thank you again!

    ying

    (@yingscarlett)

    No Problem ??

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