Current Year Documentation
Easily display the current year on your website - this is mainly handy in the footer area of your website so you don't need to update the copyright notice every year.
Installation
When you have downloaded the 'currentyear.zip' folder - you will need to login to your administrator area, navigate to 'Extensions -> Manage -> Install -> Upload Package File'. Simply click the 'Browse...' button and select the 'currentyear.zip' folder that you have just downloaded and click the 'Upload & Install' button. As soon as Joomla! has finished the installation process, you will be notified that the install was successful.
Enabling the Current Year plugin
In your administrator area, navigate to 'Extensions -> Plugins' and filter on the 'Type' selecting 'Content'. This will list all of the content plugins that you have installed - simply enable the 'Content - Current Year' plugin.
Using the Current Year plugin
There are two steps to this process listed below.
1: Within your article/module - use the tag {currentyear}
in the article/module body.
2: If you are placing the current year tag in a module, you will need to set the 'Prepare Content' setting to 'Yes' in the 'Options' tab.