Getting rid of theme credits

  • Hello,

    I’m extremely new to coding and, to be honest, I’m not 100% sure I know what I’m doing. From my lurking though, this seems like a friendly community. ?? Other than a few Neopets pages I set up when I was 10, I’ve got no experience. I’m running the new Harmonic theme.

    My question is: in order to hide theme credits, do you have to purchase the theme or enable code adjustments (which is purchasing something one way or the other)? It’s not so much the coding; I’m confused about what you’re supposed to buy to get website customization and exactly what those options are.

    Any help would be appreciated!

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  • Tim Nash

    (@tnash)

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    ok you have 2 issues here:

    1) Licensing
    2) Doing

    I am assuming you are running a self hosted blog where you have access to the files and can make edits? i.e you are not running example.wordpress.com

    1) Themes should be Licensed under GPL which means you can do what ever you like to the theme as long as you obey a few restrictions in terms of redistributing and authorship. This means you are free to remove the “blog credits” in the footer, though it is good practice to still keep the credits and explain the original ownership within the code for example in the styles.css along with your details.

    Some themes might license in a different way, they shouldn’t and if they do well that’s naughty but in such cases, it’s up to you if you feel you can remove the credit. Some ask that if you remove credit links you give them a few bucks again you can just remove the credit links in the footer regardless, as long as you do accredit them somewhere.

    2) The actual removal, is a case of opening footer.php finding the html with the credit and deleting or replacing as you see fit.

    Now for the moral bit, people work hard on developing themes so think long and hard before removing credit links to other peoples works. If the link is back to the author of the theme (and not another random company) then it’s a way of saying thank you to them.

    Up to you if you want to remove it, change it or do something else, but remember the work someone put into it.

    Thread Starter aristolle

    (@aristolle)

    I used to have example.wordpress.com, but I’ve purchased a domain so now it’s example.com. I’m not sure how to access the files on my mac. A friend told me the code page can be accessed through the dashboard?

    I definitely want to give credit to the original maker, but within the page itself and not on the layout, if that makes sense.

    Andrew Nevins

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    Thread Starter aristolle

    (@aristolle)

    Thank you.

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