Dhali Copyright

A block that renders a copyright line with a dynamically updated year — © 2026 · Client Name · All rights reserved. Designed by Dhali. — with an editable company name and a credit link back to Dhali.

Managed centrally by Dhali Extension Manager, which installs and activates this plugin on a site from this repo directly. It's also a fully standalone, valid WordPress plugin — you can install it manually the normal way if you ever need to.

What it does

Adds a "Dhali Copyright" block (create-block/dhali-copyright). It has one attribute, companyName, editable from the block's settings panel. The current year is computed at render time (date('Y')), so it never needs manual updating.

⚠️ Known issue — hardcoded fallback name

src/dhali-copyright/render.php falls back to a hardcoded client name if companyName is empty:

$company_name = ! empty($attributes['companyName']) ? $attributes['companyName'] : 'twistnflip';

That's left over from the site this block was first built for. block.json correctly declares the attribute's own default as the generic <Client Name> — but that default only applies inside the editor when a fresh instance of the block is inserted. The PHP fallback above is a separate safety net for whenever companyName is somehow empty at render time, and it should also read a generic placeholder, not a real former client's name. Fix before relying on this on a new site:

$company_name = ! empty($attributes['companyName']) ? $attributes['companyName'] : '<Client Name>';

Requirements

• WordPress 6.8+
• PHP 7.4+

Usage

Insert the "Dhali Copyright" block anywhere — typically the footer template part. Set the company name in the block's sidebar settings; the year updates itself.

Development

Scaffolded with @wordpress/create-block. Source lives in src/, compiled output in build/ — both are committed to this repo, since Dhali Extension Manager installs directly from the repo's files and does not run a build step of its own.

npm install
npm start     # dev build with watch
npm run build # production build — run this before committing

If you edit anything in src/, always run npm run build and commit the updated build/ output in the same commit — otherwise the site installs whatever build/ last had, not your source changes.

Keeping this updated on sites where it's already installed

This plugin carries its own update-checker (includes/dhali-plugin-updater.php) and declares an Update URI: header pointing at this repo. Once installed on a site, that site checks this repo's master branch and shows a normal "Update available" notice in wp-admin — no separate deploy step needed for future versions.

To ship a new version: bump Version: in the header above, push to master, done. Confirmed working end-to-end as of 0.2.0.