How to remove the 'set up by'

  • Hi,

    I have just had a WP site set up for me by a contractor who has gone AWOL and I have been left to try and pick up the pieces !

    One thing I can’t work out is that he has set a ‘set up by #name’ at the footer of each page.

    Can someone please tell me how I can change/remove this.

    Many thanks.

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  • Can you post a link to your website?

    It’s most likely in the footer.php file of your theme. If not, there will be some function call that will be producing that output. You will need to do some snopping around to find out where it is and remove that bit of code from the file/files.

    If you can determine the code surrounding that text, you can hide it using CSS (display:none;), but I can’t be more specific without seeing the actual site.

    Thread Starter andyboyce

    (@andyboyce)

    Here is the URL https://www.ingearquickvittrainsharp.co.uk/

    I checked your site now, But I couldn’t find a ‘set up by #name’ on any of the pages. I tried a couple of pages. Could you please check again.

    The Set up… string is using white text on a white background because of this in-line styling:

    <p id="copyright" style="color:#fff;">Set up by <a href="https://moin.im" title="Web Developer" style="color:#fff;">Moin Uddin</a></p>

    As @catacaustic has suggested, it’s probably in your footer.php file. Just remove the paragrapgh.

    You need to find out where that link is fast – and remove it. Google will penalise you heavily for cloaking links (white text on white background), so your site will suffer for having the link to that company there. I’m guessing that the website belongs to the person that did your development? If so, contact him and complain!!! He’s not only hurting your site, but hurting his own site with that sort of black-hat SEO tactics.

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