Remove branding

Before doing this, make a copy of your footer.php file…just in case something goes wacky. (wp-content–>themes–>accelerate–>footer.php)

Go to the theme editor, Appearance–>Editor and look for the footer.php file . Open that. Find a code similar to this
`<?php do_action( ‘accelerate_credits’ ); ?> (or something like that)

Delete it. Bear in mind that deleting it will also delete your own copyright. I just added mine in the regular footer,so no big deal. BellaBellaHandmade.com

However….anytime ThemeGrill updates the theme, you’ll have to do it again…

I’m thinking there is a way to upload a copy or something like it of the footer.php file into a child theme of accelerate, but I am not sure how to do that. The above is a temporary fix. Until I learn better. Hope this helps.

First things first, this is well documented within the wordpress codex and that’s where you should go for a solution. Creating a child theme is the solution and most people only get as far as creating a child theme style sheet. In this case the solution is very simple:

Copy the following 2 files to your local storage footer.php and siderbar-footer.php
Using something like Notepad++ you need to edit both files.
footer.php amend line 17 which contains <?php get_sidebar( 'footer' ); ?> to something like <?php get_sidebar( 'yourname' ); ?> and save the file.
sidebar-footer.php Rename this to sidebar-yourname.php
Amend the content of this new file (sidebar-yourname.php) to whatever you want to display in your footer. Save the file.
Upload both files to your themes child directory. That’s it, job done.

Good luck!