Hi @yarvolk ,
Great question! While WooCommerce supports a few built-in placeholders like {site_title} and {store_address}, it doesn’t currently offer a built-in way to register custom placeholders (like {current_year}) for use in fields such as the Email Footer Text.
That said, it is possible to achieve this with a custom code snippet. You can use a filter like woocommerce_email_footer_text to replace your custom placeholder with the desired content. For example:
add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_footer_text', function( $footer_text ) { return str_replace( '{current_year}', date( 'Y' ), $footer_text ); } );
This will replace {current_year} with the actual year in your email footers.
Please note that customizations like this fall outside the scope of our support, so we recommend consulting a developer if you’re not comfortable adding code to your site.
Thank you.
Hello @yarvolk!
I’ve seen that built-in placeholders like {site_title} and {store_address} work as expected. Is there a way to register additional custom placeholders so they render properly in the final email?
This should do it:
add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_format_string', 'add_current_year_placeholder', 10, 2 );
function add_current_year_placeholder( $string, $email ) {
$placeholder = '{current_year}';
$current_year = date('Y');
return str_replace( $placeholder, $current_year, $string );
}
The codes inside or your child theme’s functions.php file or you can add it via a plugin like CodeSnippets. The placeholder name is {current_year} .
Hope this helps!
add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_footer_text', function( $footer_text ) { return str_replace( '{current_year}', date( 'Y' ), $footer_text ); } );
Hi @mahfuzurwp
Thank you! This filter actually worked! Topic is closed.
Hi @yarvolk,
You’re very welcome, I’m glad to hear that the filter worked! 🎉
If you have a moment, we’d truly appreciate it if you could leave a review and share your experience:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce/reviews/
Thanks again, and happy selling!
