Text in footer – no where to be found!

You mean the “Copyright ? 2014” text, or the one under the title Copyright that follow with the text “All recipes, photographs and articles on this site… ?

a) If you want to remove the first one “Copyright ? 2014”, then it is probably in the footer.php file located in /wp-content/themes/spike/footer.php.

b) If you want to remove (or edit) the text under the title Copyright, the text starting with “All recipes, photographs and articles on this site…” then it is probably a configurable option that you can find in the general settings of the admin panel, or in the settings of the theme Spike (if there’s any).

No, as described above, it’s the BOTTOM footer, and “I’d like to edit the copyright text you see in the bottom left corner.”

Also as stated above – it is NOT located in the footer.php file. In fact, I’ve checked every .php file, and the entire style css sheet. No where to be found.

Considering that Spike is a premium theme, then I can’t check its code from here, also you say the text is not in the code since you already checked every PHP file (and others). The only two other possibilities are:

a) The text is encoded to avoid the easy removal of it in one of the theme’s files.

b) The text in in the database (which can be also encoded).

For option b – what database are you referring to? Any way I can search for this?

If you have direct access to your database, for example using a database admin panel (like PHP-My-Admin or something like that) then you can look for the text in the tables $table_prefix + _options in the column option_value (where $table_prefix can be ‘wp_’ or something else).

But as I said, the text may be encoded, so searching for the exact string of characters Copyright... may not return any result. You can also look for data encoded with Base64 which is the most common way used by WordPress themes to hide information (in files too).