Removing Footer Link

I’m not a programmer by trade and it seems like each theme has a different method of displaying and hiding the footer. So I hacked a quick fix that works with my theme (Make):

Change the footer color to the same color as the footer background! HA! Sneaky weaky.

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@ericjthomas: Thank you contributing to the forums but please do not encourage people to edit theme files directly. At best, they will lose all of their changes when they update the theme. At worst, they could bring their site down. They should be recommended to create a child theme or use a custom CSS plugin for their changes.

Hey ksmith61,
By footer you mean, just the copyright info right? At first inspection you can remove just the copyright info by adding display:none to the .site-info class in your stylesheet file. I would suggest you add to this to the very bottom of the stylesheet. if you want the whole white bar gone, add the same property to .site-footer class. Hope this helps. Please let me know if it worked.

Warm Regards,
Prasad.

Edit: As Esmi correctly pointed out, please create a child theme or use a Custom CSS Plugin for these edits.

Actually @esmi, i’m advocating just the opposite! DO NOT EDIT THEME FILE DIRECTLY, rather change the color of the footer text in your theme options (Appearance; Customize) to be the same color as your footer background color.
While customizing the footer may not be a standard option in some themes it was in mine (Make). Please see attached screenshot.

Yay!

Very few themes have an option to change the footer text colour. Were you also aware that this approach can result in you being blacklisted by Google as a potential spammer?