**Q: How do I fix the outdated year showing on my website?**
⚠️ Before you start: back up your site first.
What this fixes: An old copyright year or date range makes the site look neglected.
Steps:
1. Look at the very bottom of your site for the copyright year. If it’s old, open your theme’s footer settings.
2. Use the small snippet SEO Doctor generated for your site (included in your report below) to show the current year automatically. If that’s too technical, just type the current year for now.
3. Search your site for other old year ranges (like “1961–2020”) and update them.
4. Save and clear your cache.
5. Reload your site and confirm the footer shows the current year.
Tools you may need:
– Your theme’s footer/customizer area (Divi: Theme Options → Footer).
– WPCode (https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-headers-and-footers/) — if you add the snippet as code.
Common mistakes to avoid:
– Typing this year by hand and forgetting it next January — the auto snippet avoids that.
– Missing hard-coded ranges buried inside page text.
When to call SEO Doctor:
– Your footer can’t run the auto-year snippet and you want an alternative.