Publish date of your Shopify website

Shopify Discussion
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Hi All,

When I first finish my shopify site and I publish it, can other people see when the site is first published in the code/metal data/ or somewhere else? If so, is there any method to hide it?

The reason is I don’t want customers to see it’s a newly created site.

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Hi, thanks for the reply. I’m not trying to hide my store from visitors. I’m trying to see if Shopify publishes the date the website is first available for customers to make purchases.

And if it does show the first published date, how can I hide it"?

Thanks

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Hi @aaaaa123

There’s no such date visible. The only thing close to it would be the copyright year in your footer.

And if you’re looking to change that - follow these steps:

  1. Go to your themes page
  2. Click Edit Code
  3. Search for the file “footer.liquid”
  4. Inside the file search for “powered_by_link”…
  5. Just above that line - you will need to replace the following code: {{ ‘now’ | date: “%Y” }} with whatever year you’d like… e.g. 2018.
  6. Save changes. And that’s it.

Hope this helped you! Cheers!

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No such direct info really for the frontend in the html.

The closest things are either the copyright notice, or publish|creation dates in blog feeds, or product data in the ajax api i.e. /products/product-handle.json

Some theme code has it’s date of creation, or copyright, that is required part of licenses for usage.

Savvy users can use google-fu or internet archives to sorta establish if a website did not exist in the past.