Change the Copyright text in the Great Theme

Hi @ndudding, I’ve just looked into how you could change the copyright information and it doesn’t look possible.

Usually themes provide a way of overriding a function, but there doesn’t appear to be a way to override the ‘great_wp_footer’ funtion that lives in template-tags.php.

Oh wait, you can just copy the ‘footer.php’ file into your Child Theme folder and replace all of the code with this:

<?php
/**
* The template for displaying the footer.
*
* @package Great

*/
?>
<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>

I think that should work

It’s doable but the solution is inelegant. There’s probably an better way to do this, but this works.

First make and activate a child theme.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

I created one in /themes/great-child and put these 3 files there.

style.css

/*
Theme Name: Great Child Theme
Description: Child theme for the Great theme
Version: 0.1
Template: great
*/

functions.php is too much to paste here, use this link instead.

https://pastebin.com/TB8DuZRw

footer.php

<?php

great_child_wp_footer(); wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>

The footer.php file is a copy of the original great/footer.php file with one difference: the file calls great_child_wp_footer() and not great_wp_footer().

That functions.php file has a duplicate of the parent theme’s function but it has a different name and incorporates the footer changes you want.

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This is a bit of bummer for Ben to get no credit for his theme, and makes it look like the OP is taking all the credit.

I would recommend the author looks at other, less invasive ways to receive credit.

I had changed it, but after Ben was very helpful with a question I had, I decided to leave his name on the bottom.

Hi all,
To replace theme text in a more proper way it is sufficient to add this function to functions.php of a child theme:

<?php
function set_theme_text(){
//rewrite text of the  function called "great_site_contact" located in inc/extras.php
set_theme_mod ( 'mail', 'new [email protected]' );
set_theme_mod( 'adress', '' );
set_theme_mod( 'phone', '+216 000 000' );
set_theme_mod( 'mail_url' );
set_theme_mod( 'phone_url' );
//rewrite text of the  function called "great_footer_quote" located in inc/extras.php

set_theme_mod('footer_quote', '');
set_theme_mod( 'footer_author', 'new author name');
set_theme_mod( 'footer_link', esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ) );
set_theme_mod( 'footer_linktext', __('Read more...', 'great') );

}
?>

then, call it from the copy of footer.php just before calling the differents footers:

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying the footer.
 *
 * @package Great
 */

// Theme Footer Copyright Info-Text

set_theme_text();

echo great_copyright_infotext();great_wp_footer();wp_footer(); ?></body></html>

If you would to hide a given text leave it blank.

Hi @mohamed.belhassen, this thread is 6 months old and references an older version of the theme; version 0.9. In the original template-tag.php file, there wasn’t a theme setting that you could utilise because the signature was outputted from a string (inside of printf):

<?php printf(__('Author: %s', 'great' ), 'Ben Alvele, <strong><a target="_self" href="https://alvele.com/">alvele.com</a></strong>' ); ?>

In the new version, 0.13, the theme signature is instead added into the source code of each page.

This is in functions.php:

/**
 * Footer Copyright
 */
function great_copyright_infotext () {
	return "<!-- Powered by WordPress & Author: Ben Alvele, alvele.com & Active theme Great -->";
}

This is in footer.php:

echo great_copyright_infotext();great_wp_footer();wp_footer(); ?></body>

Hope that helps explain why your technique won’t work for the signature.

Hello
@riley.keller [ Have tried changing the footer notes but cant seem to get it right! How did you solve it?

Hey @ichiex517,

As per forum welcome, you’re required to create your own thread instead of posting in a 9 months old thread. Hope you understand.