{"id":164,"date":"2019-07-07T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2019-07-07T08:47:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:47:42","slug":"how-to-remove-footer-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/how-to-remove-footer-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove footer credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>To remove footer credit<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Footer credit can be omitted from WordPress admin but if your theme does not have the option to remove or modify footer credits from WordPress admin, then your only option is to edit the footer.php code.You can find this file in your \/wp-content\/themes\/yourtheme\/footer.php<br \/>\nYou can either remove this text entirely or customize it to suit your needs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click\u00a0 Appearance &gt; Customize<\/li>\n<li>Go to Footer Option<\/li>\n<li>Go to Copyright option and edit<\/li>\n<li>Go to Power by\u00a0 option and edit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enable\/Disable Through Customizer<\/strong><br \/>\nSome of the themes have options to show\/hide options for powered text in the footer. But usually, this features is available only on premium version. If you are using premium version, usually you can check this options inside Appearance &gt; Customize and you can see some section of Footer Section or similar.<br \/>\nIf there are no any options to hide or add your own powered by text, you can check the below mentioned steps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Easy Solution \u2013 Hide that section via custom CSS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the easiest methods to hide powered by text is custom CSS. Follow the below-mentioned steps to add custom CSS to your website.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Login to your WordPress dashboard as an Admin<\/li>\n<li>Scroll over \u2018Appearance\u2019 and then click on the \u2018Customize\u2019 menu<\/li>\n<li>Go to the Additional CSS section of the customizer.<\/li>\n<li>Add the given below CSS codes there.<br \/>\n.site-info{<br \/>\ndisplay:none;<br \/>\n}<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Removing\/Editing via footer.php file<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the best methods to customize powered by text is via footer.php file. WordPress theme has footer.php file on theme root folder. You can either customize the foooter.php file and upload that file on server or you can directly edit via Appearance &gt; Editor.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the below mentioned steps to edit footer.php file via admin panel.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Login to your WordPress dashboard as an Admin<\/li>\n<li>Scroll over \u2018Appearance\u2019 and then click on the \u2018Editor\u2019 menu<\/li>\n<li>Select the menu which you want to edit from Select theme to edit: from a top right corner.<\/li>\n<li>Click on Theme Footer ( footer.php ) file.<\/li>\n<li>Edit the code as shown in the below image.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-173\" src=\"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blog1-300x116.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blog1-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blog1.png 733w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are customizing the\u00a0<strong>twentyseventeen<\/strong>\u00a0theme, site info is in another template file. Check\u00a0template-parts\/footer\/site-info.php of theme file. You will see the similar code in below screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-176\" src=\"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blog2-300x135.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blog2-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blog2.png 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instead of customizing parent theme directly, we recommend you to customize the theme with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.templatesell.com\/blog\/child-themes-and-its-usage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Child Theme.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this blog article provided you the guidance and some best information about how to remove the powered text footer credit, specifically, \u201cPowered by WordPress\u201d footer link form your site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To remove footer credit Footer credit can be omitted from WordPress admin but if your theme does not have the option to remove or modify footer credits from WordPress admin, then your only option is to edit the footer.php code.You can find this file in your \/wp-content\/themes\/yourtheme\/footer.php You can either remove this text entirely or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplethemes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}