How to Remove “Proudly Powered by WordPress” from Footer: A Simple Guide

It is not difficult to remove the WordPress footer credit “Proudly Powered by WordPress.” It can be quickly done through a WordPress theme customizer in lots of free or paid WordPress themes. Few free WordPress themes don’t provide you with the option to make changes in footer credit, but still, you can make changes by installing a plugin or manually editing code.

There are various ways through which you can remove the “proudly powered by WordPress” credit from the footer section of your website. But here in this guide today, we’ll discuss the most popular ways to remove these footer credits. What you have to do is to follow the below instructions carefully to be done with it.

But before making any changes, it is imperative to know whether it is legal to remove the WordPress footer credits or not?

You will be happy to know that it is legal to remove the footer credit from WordPress. WordPress is completely free to use CMS licensed under the General Public License. You are free to use, develop, modify and even redistribute the software, themes, and plugins, GPL licensed.

Here are a few ways through which you can remove the footer credit from your website, and these are;

Now, let’s understand how you can remove “Proudly Powered by WordPress” from the footer?

How To Remove “Proudly Powered by WordPress” From Footer Using WordPress Customizer?

WordPress customizer is one of the best and easiest ways to remove WordPress footer credit. It can be quickly done through visual editing, with no need for any coding or technical knowledge. You need to delete the text or replace it with your brand copyright-like “Example.com | All Rights Reserved.”

Here is how you can do it, 

To remove the WordPress footer credit using WordPress Customizer, you first need to log in to your WordPress websites. First of all, open your favorite browser and search from example.com/wp-admin (where example.com is your domain name)

Now the login page of your WordPress website will open. Type the correct Username and Password, click on Login. You will be redirected to the WordPress admin area. In the WordPress admin area, you will see the option as Appearance >> Customizer.

Not just about making the change in WordPress footer credit, you can do all the customization of your website from the Customizer. The footer credit can be removed from the Footer Options, so find the footer customization options.

I’m using the GeneratePress theme on my website, so it shows the option inside “Layout > Footer. “ Once you are in the footer customization section, you will find the option to change WordPress footer credit, replace the text and click on the Save button as shown in the image below.

How to Remove “Proudly Powered by WordPress” from Footer by Editing Theme’s Footer File?

No matter which theme you are using, free or paid, you can remove or edit the footer credit by editing the theme’s footer file. We highly recommend you not to use this method if you are using the paid theme or your theme is providing the option to edit the footer credit visually.

Editing the WordPress themes core PHP files is not a safe option. You should not use this method if you are not familiar with PHP. Follow the below-shared step-by-step instructions to be done with it. To edit the footer.php file, you first need to log in to your WordPress website.

Go to your website’s login page (example.com/wp-admin), type correct Username and Password, and click on Login. In the WordPress admin area, click on Appearance >> Theme Editor.

Here you can choose the theme you want to edit with the WordPress theme editor from the upper right corner, and select the footer.php file to edit.

Now in the footer.php file, search for “Proudly Powered by WordPress” using the find option (Ctrl + F) and replace the text with the copyright information you want to show on your website’s footer.

How to Remove “Proudly Powered by WordPress” from Footer Using Free WordPress Plugin?

If your theme is not providing the option to remove WordPress footer credit, and you don’t want to edit the theme’s core file to make changes. In that case, you can also edit the footer’s copyright information by using the free plugin called Remove Footer Credit.

Remove Footer Credit is an entirely free-to-use plugin that can be installed from the WordPress repository. This free, user-friendly plugin has more than 90,000+ installations. Follow the below instructions to be done with it.

First, you need to install the Remove Footer Credit plugin on your WordPress website. Go to the Plugins option and click on Add New. Then search for the plugin Remove Footer Credit. Once you have the plugin, click on Install and Activate.

After activating the plugin, go to Tools >> Remove Footer Credit, and here you will get the option to remove or edit the footer copyright text. You will see two different boxes over here.

In the first box, you need to add the text you want to remove from your website entirely. And in the second box, you need to add the text you want to replace with “Proudly Powered by WordPress.” The HTML tags can also be used.

After making all the changes, click on Save.

How to Remove “Proudly Powered by WordPress” from Footer with Custom CSS Code?

Using the custom CSS code, you can not edit the footer copyright information, but you can hide it. You should be comfortable with CSS for this method. The copyright text will not be visible for us but remain in the WordPress source file.

To be done with this method, you need to copy the below CSS code and paste it into the Additional CSS. For that, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Additional CSS.

When you add this code to your WordPress website, you are going to overlap the default WordPress CSS. “.site-info” is the most used class for footer credit in lots of free or paid WordPress themes.

This code may not work for you if your theme is not using the “.site-info” class for the footer credit. In this condition, you first need to find the CSS class your theme is using for the footer credit text and then target the class respectively.

Now the question arises what if the above code is not working for your theme? Then you need to find the correct CSS class for your footer credit text.

Here is how you can find the correct CSS class. 

It is effortless to find the CSS class or ID of copyright credit. Just follow the below instructions carefully to be done with it.

Before finding the CSS class or ID, it is imperative to know what class or ID is? CSS class or ID is the property used to define the elements. The same CSS class can be used for multiple elements, but the same CSS IDs can’t be used to specify more than one element.

To find the correct CSS class or IDs, you have to visit any page of your website where the footer is visible. Go to the copyright text, right-click, and then on the Inspect Element option, the developer console will open. Here you will see the class or ID of the copyright bar as shown in the image below.

Conclusion

Those are the different methods for removing “Proudly Powered by WordPress” from Footer. For almost all the themes, this credit can be removed through WordPress customizer. You only need to do editing in code or install a new plugin to do so using a free theme. It can be quickly done with paid themes.

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