Colophon

Having set up footer links in many partner sites, this aims to simplify the deployment of each, by using a more consistent api.

Usage

While team51_credits() can be invoked directly, it will allow for more graceful degradation to implement via actions.

<?php do_action( 'team51_credits', array() ); ?>

Parameters can be passed in --

• separator -- defaults to a single space.
  Separator is passed through esc_html() on output, so don't include html tags.
• wpcom -- The text displayed for the backlink to WordPress.com
  Defaults to Proudly powered by WordPress.
  Link is skipped if not truthy.
• pressable -- The text displayed for the backlink to Pressable
  Defaults to Hosted by Pressable.
  Link is skipped if not truthy.
• format -- The date format to use with the [team51-current-year] shortcode. Defaults to Y.

Customization

You can filter the output links if desired to modify the classes on them or add new attributes if desired. It can be done like so:

/**
 * Append `extra-class-name` to the colophon link classes.
 * 
 * @param $credit_links (array) An array of the backlinks.
 * @return (array) The backlinks, with the classes appended.
 */
function PREFIX_team51_credit_links( $credit_links ) {
  foreach ( $credit_links as &$link ) {
    $link = str_replace( 'class="imprint"', 'class="imprint extra-class-name" ', $link );
  }

  return $credit_links;
}
add_filter( 'team51_credit_links', 'PREFIX_team51_credit_links' );

FSE Themes

If your site using Full Site Editing, then insert a shortcode block into the footer.html and use [team51-credits /] as an embed.

Something like this:

<!-- wp:shortcode -->
[team51-credits /]
<!-- /wp:shortcode -->

or

<!-- wp:shortcode -->
[team51-credits separator=" | " /]
<!-- /wp:shortcode -->

or the like. It will also accept wpcom and pressable parameters as well to specify their respective link texts.

For inserting the current year, use this:

<!-- wp:shortcode -->
[team51-current-year]
<!-- /wp:shortcode -->

... will output "2024", or whatever the current year is.

Examples

To remove Pressable link for WordPress.com sites, you can use

<!-- wp:shortcode -->
[team51-credits pressable="" /]
<!-- /wp:shortcode -->

Change WordPress link text to be “Proudly designed with WordPress”:

<!-- wp:shortcode -->
[team51-credits wpcom="Proudly designed with WordPress" /]
<!-- /wp:shortcode -->

Add the current year in the format “24”:

<!-- wp:shortcode -->
[team51-current-year format="y"]
<!-- /wp:shortcode -->

Installation

First, ensure the following two lines are included in your .gitignore so that the files are explicitly not ignored, and can be committed:

!mu-plugins/mu-loader.php
!mu-plugins/colophon

If mu-loader.php is not already in the mu-plugins directory, it can be copied from https://github.com/a8cteam51/team51-project-scaffold/blob/trunk/mu-plugins/mu-loader.php

This can be done on cli from the repository root via:

mkdir mu-plugins
curl https://github.com/a8cteam51/team51-project-scaffold/blob/trunk/mu-plugins/mu-loader.php -o mu-plugins/mu-loader.php

From the project repository's root, we add the Colophon as a submodule via

git submodule add https://github.com/a8cteam51/colophon mu-plugins/colophon

Then we create a pull request as needed and integrate it as above.

Updates

• v1.2.0 Add a new shortcode for showing the copyright year.