Help with Twenty Sixteen footer

  • My client wants to have “Copyright 2020 Happy Belly Company LLC” at the bottom of each page (which, I assume, needs to be input via a bottom content widget). There is already the site identity footer there, so if I add that, the company name will appear twice near the bottom.

    Is there any way to change what is currently being shown at the bottom (Happy Belly Company / Powered by WordPress) but still have the company name at the top of each page (which appears there because I am showing site identity)?

    Note: I am not a programmer so please keep your answer geared toward what a layman would understand. Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

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  • Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    Hey there!

    I’m trying to think here on what a good path would be ?? Reason being is that it does require a little bit of work on your side as well. Which I’m sure you know already. One thing you’ll want to both do and learn is what a child theme is and what it does. To break that down and make it super simple: it is a way of altering the active theme so you don’t lose changes when the theme gets updated.

    With that, you will want to get a little familiar on how the theme is structured since not all themes will use the same template files. This page does a good job of diving into those: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/template-files-section/

    Now, once you’ve been able to get through most of that with some breaking in between – because let’s face it we all learn that way too – you’ll want to edit the footer.php file in your child theme where that line of code resides.

    Sorry, I did want to make it a bit more concise but also didn’t want to leave things out so you’re not lost along the way. Let us know if that helps in any way or if you want a bit more clarification on any of that.

    Thread Starter cherylAZ

    (@cherylaz)

    This explanation and the links are way too advanced for my understanding. For one, if I use a child theme, will I not be able to continue to use what I have now? Where do I find the .php files?

    Is there any way to change what is currently being shown at the bottom (Happy Belly Company / Powered by WordPress)

    not ideal, however, you could possibly hide the duplicate text with:

    .site-info .site-title {
    display:  none;
}

    in ‘Additional CSS’

    Thread Starter cherylAZ

    (@cherylaz)

    This is excellent! Thanks! Now… is there any way to also hide the “powered by WordPress”? Or even change it to alternative text?

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