One of the less glamorous tasks of hosting a blog is keeping all the small details up to date. One of those details is the copyright date on the site. Here's an easy way to never have to worry about this again. Pelican themes have a core set of files to generate a website. One of them is the base.html theme file. Check your Pelican theme and see if the base.html file includes a reference to a footer theme file, like footer.html. If it does, skip the next step and move on.

Add Footer.html reference

Because your base.html file does not reference a footer theme file, or have any details related to a copyright date at the bottom, you'll need to add some code between the last `