Removing Powered by WordPress Footer Text

HI Chuck

All you would need to do is go to the theme editor in your dashboard and find the footer.php file. Once you find that, do a control find for the said text.

Then, either remove it, comment it out (//), or remove it all together. However, be very careful when removing it, because if you remove too much info from that, your site could crash with syntax errors.

Let me know if you need more help.

Mike

Hello Mike (Castro Boy),

I tried looking for the precise text except it cannot be found within the footer.php file, which has me baffled.

This is what I find:
<?php
/** Themify Default Variables
@var object */
global $themify; ?>

<?php themify_layout_after(); //hook ?>
</div>
<!– /body –>

<div id=”footerwrap”>

<?php themify_footer_before(); // hook ?>
<footer id=”footer” class=”pagewidth”>
<?php themify_footer_start(); // hook ?>

<?php get_template_part( ‘includes/footer-widgets’); ?>

<p class=”back-top”><?php _e(‘Back to top’, ‘themify’); ?></p>

<?php if (function_exists(‘wp_nav_menu’)) {
wp_nav_menu(array(‘theme_location’ => ‘footer-nav’ , ‘fallback_cb’ => ” , ‘container’ => ” , ‘menu_id’ => ‘footer-nav’ , ‘menu_class’ => ‘footer-nav’));
} ?>

<div class=”footer-text clearfix”>
<?php themify_the_footer_text(); ?>
<?php themify_the_footer_text(‘right’); ?>
</div>
<!– /footer-text –>
<?php themify_footer_end(); // hook ?>
</footer>
<!– /#footer –>
<?php themify_footer_after(); // hook ?>
</div>
<!– /#footerwrap –>

</div>
<!– /#pagewrap –>

<?php
/**
* Stylesheets and Javascript files are enqueued in theme-functions.php
*/
?>

<?php themify_body_end(); // hook ?>
<!– wp_footer –>
<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>

Hey there,

OK, its hardcoded into theme’s functions it appears. You can remove it by editing your footer.php with commenting out the following:

<?php themify_the_footer_text(); ?>
<?php themify_the_footer_text('right'); ?>

so basically just place // before both opening php tags. This SHOULD work if I remember correctly. Don’t shoot me if it doesn’t LOL …be sure to copy your current footer.php file so that in case there is a syntax error you can go back and paste in the original code.

Mike

Hey Mike,

So by deleting by php tags, I was able to remove it. Thanks a lot for the help! In case anyone calls on this post again, you only need to delete the second php tag to remove the WordPress text. The first tag is for your copyright text.

“When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he had three missed calls from Chuck Norris”

NICE! Glad to hear this fixed you up. And love the quote LOL I am a Texas native and grew up on Chuck Norris in Walker texas ranger ha ??

Mike