Install AutoYear

You’re two minutes from a footer that stays current forever. Pick your setup below.

✅ Thanks for your purchase. Your download is ready below and a copy was emailed to you.

Your personal download link appears here after payment. The bundle contains the WordPress plugin (wordpress/auto-year.zip) and the universal snippet (any-site/auto-year.js).

Open Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin

In your WordPress admin (your-site.com/wp-admin), go to Plugins → Add New Plugin (called just Add New on older WordPress), then click Upload Plugin at the top.

[ screenshot: Plugins → Add New → “Upload Plugin” button ]
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Choose auto-year.zip and click Install Now

Unzip the bundle you downloaded — inside the wordpress folder is auto-year.zip. Click Choose File, select that auto-year.zip (don’t unzip it), then Install Now.

[ screenshot: file chosen + “Install Now” ]
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Click Activate Plugin

That’s the whole install. There are no settings — the moment it’s active, your footer year is handled.

[ screenshot: “Activate Plugin” button ]
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✓

Done — verify it

Open your site’s homepage and scroll to the footer. The copyright year now shows the current year. If it doesn’t, email us your URL and we’ll sort it out.

[ screenshot: before/after footer year ]
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Open `any-site/auto-year.js` from your bundle

Unzip the bundle you downloaded. The whole product for non-WordPress sites (Webflow, Squarespace, Tilda, Shopify themes, static HTML, custom sites…) is that one file. Nothing is loaded from our servers — the code lives on your site.

Put it on your site — either way works

A. Builder with a “custom code” / “code injection” / “footer code” box (Webflow, Squarespace, Shopify, Tilda…): hit Copy full script below — it copies the whole engine already wrapped in a script tag, exactly what goes into the footer box. (It is the same code as any-site/auto-year.js in your bundle, if you prefer to copy it from there.)

<script>
  /* AutoYear engine — ~5 KB, self-contained.
     “Copy full script” puts the complete code on your clipboard. */
</script>

B. You can upload files to your site (static HTML, custom sites): drop auto-year.js next to your pages and add this line just above the closing </body> tag:

<script src="/auto-year.js" async></script>

[ screenshot: pasting into a builder’s footer code box ]
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✓

Save, publish, verify

Most builders need an explicit Publish after saving — until you press it, nothing changes on the live site (this is the #1 thing people miss on Webflow). Then open your live domain (not the editor or preview), scroll to the footer, and hard-refresh (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+R). The year is current. The editor may still show the old year — that’s expected: the script changes what visitors see, not your source text.

Need a hand? Email support@autoyear.example with your site URL — we’ll get it working.