Best year shortcode plugins for WordPress
The most popular year shortcode plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Dynamic Year and Copyright Shortcode leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of Smart Copyright Year (Lite) (200+) and Automatic Copyrights Shortcode (10+). All 4 plugins tagged “year shortcode” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 year shortcode plugins
- 1.Dynamic Year and Copyright Shortcode
The most installed year shortcode plugin, with 200+ active installs. Rated 3.2 from 5 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 2.
Smart Copyright Year (Lite)200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.
Automatic Copyrights Shortcode10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
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Mailwick Copyright YearFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
All 4 plugins tagged “year shortcode”
Dynamic Year and Copyright Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:9#11,449by Deepak Kumar Vellingiri8 years ago
This plugins allows you to keep the Copyright year of the website always updated.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Smart Copyright Year (Lite)
Up in the last 7 days:24#11,667by Nisaurl Amin Naim1 year ago
Smart Copyright Year is a super lite plugin which provides [year] shortcode to auto-display current year in copyright info.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Automatic Copyrights Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:2,482#40,174by linkpakdigital7 years ago
Best copyright shortcode plugin to keep the copyright year of the website always updated.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Mailwick Copyright Year
Up in the last 7 days:7,256#55,642by spsaradellis11 days ago
Fixes an out-of-date copyright year in your footer automatically, with no theme edits. Adds [mwcy_year] and [mwcy_copyright] shortcodes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day