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WordPress WordPress Theme Development WordPress Header and Footer Templates WordPress Header and Footer Quiz

Michael McCracken
Michael McCracken
1,884 Points
Posted by Michael McCracken
Michael McCracken
1,884 Points

Is the quiz looking for PHP functions?

I am having trouble with this quiz. Despite knowing the answers to all of the questions, I keep failing two of the questions because I don't understand what format the answer should be in. Specifically, these are the two questions:

What function and parameter would you use to dynamically echo out the URL for a WordPress site?

How would you echo out the current year in 4 digits using the PHP date function?

I know the exact functions these questions refer to and have tried typing all and various parts of them, but the quiz does not accept any of my answers. I am not sure how else I can answer the questions. Can you give me at least a hint of what format the answers need to be in? Thanks!

4 Answers

Emma Willmann
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Emma Willmann
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Emma Willmann
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Emma Willmann
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I know I sometimes struggled with these questions, wondering what they wanted on the blank. First, realize they are already providing the semi-colon, so you do not have to type that.

So, as an example, the question about the year all you would answer is

date('Y')

I just did that and it worked fine. (also, make sure the 'Y' is capitalized because 'y' only returns the last 2 numbers of the year).

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Michael,

What function and parameter would you use to dynamically echo out the URL for a WordPress site? would need the answer bloginfo('url').

How would you echo out the current year in 4 digits using the PHP date function? would need the answer date('Y').

Hope that helps

-Rich

Michael McCracken
Michael McCracken
1,884 Points
Michael McCracken
Michael McCracken
1,884 Points

Thanks so much, both of you! I did not realize the semi-colon was provided, so I think that's where I ran into trouble. I was able to pass the quiz now.

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Glad you got it sorted.

-Rich

Mohammed Asif Anwar
Mohammed Asif Anwar
5,380 Points
Mohammed Asif Anwar
Mohammed Asif Anwar
5,380 Points

The __________() function calls the footer file in a WordPress theme. cant get this, need help please