I am trying to insert the current copyright year, so that it auto updates, in the Custom footer text area of Parabola. None of the scripts or PHP I’ve tried will work. How can this be accomplished?
You can’t paste PHP in the custom footer text field. If you want to do this you’ll have to get your hands dirty and edit some .php files. /includes/theme-functions.php would be the place where it’s at. As always it’s recommended that you use child themes.