How to remove or modify the "Proudly powered by WordPress" footer

Hello CasparV,

Hope you are having great week so far!

To remove the text in the footer you will need to go to the footer.php file in the theme folder and delete the lines between 17-20, that look like this:

<div class="site-info">
				<?php do_action( 'twentythirteen_credits' ); ?>
				<a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'https://www.ads-software.com/', 'twentythirteen' ) ); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Semantic Personal Publishing Platform', 'twentythirteen' ); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentythirteen' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a>
			</div><!-- .site-info -->

Nothing more, nothing less. ??

As you already know this isn’t a good practice as code changes will be erased on theme update.
That’s why I created a child theme, and you can download it from here. ??
Just add some picture to the folder and name it screenshot.png if you want to have preview in the WordPress backend.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Ivan

Hi Ivan,

Thank you very much for your help.

I tried both of your suggestions and sadly got nowhere.

Deleting those lines made no difference, although ideally I would like to change the text and the hyperlink (which looks easy in principle).

I unzipped your zip file and ended up with 3 files called footer.php, functions.php and style.css in ..\wordpress\wp-content\themes\2013-child-master. I then added an image called screenshot.png, like you said, but when I go into Themes it still doesn’t show it (although I can still add more from online).

Like I said before, no doubt I am doing something stupid, but it seems like it should be simple to me and yet it just isn’t! GRRRR!

Many thanks,
Caspar

Update from yesterday: I read another thread and discovered that I go into wp-admin and then choose Appearance and then Editor and look for footer.php in the listing on the right. So now I know how to change an existing footer!

For the record and to help others: what I was doing wrong was to try and edit the actual file saved on my local drive at ..\wordpress\wp-content\themes\twentythirteen\footer.php

However I still haven’t worked out how to get that new Theme. I can now see (told you I was a newbie!) that you can Upload one in zip format – is that how to do it? If so, do you zip the files only, or do you zip the folder complete with the files in it? Or is that all wrong and there is something else I should be doing, please?

Many thanks,
Caspar

Hey there Caspar,

I haven’t been clear enough. ??

The link I provided in the previous post is to a .zip file containing the theme files.
Once you click on it you should be able to download this zip to your computer and then you need to go to:
WP Admin -> Appearance -> Themes -> Add New -> Upload theme

Then you should see a page with a “browse” button, click it, select the .zip file you just downloaded to your machine.
Click “Install Now”, wait for the page to load and then click activate.
You can check this screenshot(disregard the red warnings), and this WordPress page for more information.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Ivan

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for that – it all makes sense. My trouble is being a newbie and not knowing how to fill in the gaps!

Do I still need to do anything about screenshot.png that you mentioned in your previous post? I can imagine maybe adding screenshot.png to your zip file before I upload it, but maybe that’s not needed? What would happen if I didn’t, would it just pick up the default image from twentythirteen, which I am assuming is how it gets all of the other required files? And then is that image what you see when you browse the installed themes within wp-admin Administration Screen? And otherwise it doesn’t appear anywhere when you actually use that theme? Or am I being naive again?!

Many thanks for all of your guidance,
Caspar

Hi again Ivan,

That second hyperlink in your previous post to the WordPress page that is supposed to tell me about how to add a new theme doesn’t work and it just takes me to the Support Forums homepage – any ideas about that, please?

Many thanks,
Caspar

Hi Caspar,

Sorry, I might messed something when copy pasting the link.

Here- https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Themes#Adding_New_Themes_using_the_Administration_Panels

Do I still need to do anything about screenshot.png that you mentioned in your previous post? I can imagine maybe adding screenshot.png to your zip file before I upload it, but maybe that’s not needed?

That is not necessary at all.
You just not going to have a theme image, but it won’t hurt the theme in any way. Check this screenshot here – https://minus.com/lbvqmP5FSihR9n
This waht you are going to see in the WordPress admin if you don’t add an image.
You can add image to this zip and then upload it to your WordPress install.

Thanks,
Ivan