Remove footer code

You may have a bit of a problem, seeing as how your theme has that sponsored link

Normally you just edit footer.php to remove/replace what you want in the theme

But some themes have an encoded footer which prevents you from removing sponsored links.

It’s not that you aren’t allowed to remove the links, you definitely are. Just some ‘shadier’ themes have checks built into the theme which break the theme if you try to edit it.

My suggestion is to look at footer.php in your theme and see if yu can figire out what to edit. If it’s encoded and you can’t edit it, I’d recommend getting your themes from more reputable sources so that you can easily edit them

You should be able to edit/remove the link from your theme’s footer.php file.

Ok thanks for the tip. I’ve looked and I can’t find it, so I guess it’s a ‘shady’ theme ??

It’s possible…. what was in your footer.php, just a bunch of encoded stuff?

something like eval and then a seemingly random string of letters/numbers?

Yeah exactly! It looks like a bunch of letters ??

Thanks everyone and Since83 who I can’t see on there. So it is possible to remove bad code without breaking the theme? Am i able to ‘hide’ the code somehow?

Yeah, it may be impossible to edit

If you look over on the themes section of this forum, up at the top in the stickies, there is a decoding thread, where they tell you how to decode that stuff, and volunteers also decode themes

But my experience has been that usually there is a function built into themes like this that checks for edits.

Basically, it turns it into a fair bit of coding to remove the links. Probably far more effort than its worth.

If you want to get rid of the links, it may be best to get a reputable theme, and go from there. There’s no reason to have other people freeloading links on your site in my opinion…..

<p class="page-footer">

is the div that displays those links, so you can hide them by adding

.page-footer {
      display: none;
}

to your style.css

Thanks for the tip and the code. I guess they just want people to know it’s their theme, which i understand. Really, I’m freeloading off their theme…

Thanks again for your help, really appreciate it ??

It’s just hard to tell what all that theme is doing.

If they are dropping in links, and making the theme impossible to edit, what other functions are going on in there? Do they give a backdoor into your site? Do they create security issues? etc.

Since83 – I can’t see your posts on here, but I’m getting the emails though. I’ve just registered with WPwisdom now. ??

IMO it shows gratitude by giving a link to the person that created the theme.

In this case the guy has been smart by forcing you to give a link or you can’t use the theme, which was probably given to you for free.

Since83 – It says I’m not allowed to create a new post on WPwisdom, but I’m still waiting for the validation email, which hasn’t been sent to me yet.

Ok done Since83

@wizbit1505

Funny. I read that as saying the guy has been smart in this case by “forcing you to show gratitude”.