{"id":394,"date":"2018-02-14T06:40:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T06:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.templatesell.com\/blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2020-05-22T04:06:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:06:47","slug":"remove-powered-text-footer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/remove-powered-text-footer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove the Powered Text in WordPress Footer Links in 2020? [Updated Tips]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our visitors asked us about how to remove the powered by text in <strong>WordPress<\/strong> footer links. So, today we are going to discuss the possibility and recommended a way to remove or customize the <strong>powered text<\/strong> in the footer section.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSvKBBfs4sI\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of the themes of WordPress use the footer section to display powered by text. You can see similar text like &#8220;Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Penman by Template Sell&#8221;.\u00a0 If you are running a corporate site or developing the site for the clients, generally you want to remove it or customize it.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.templatesell.com\/themes\/free-wordpress-themes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free WordPress themes<\/a><\/strong> don&#8217;t have options to remove the powered by text in the footer. In that case, this blog post is very helpful to remove it.<\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering about how to remove or edit this, we are here to help you with stepwise instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s proceed,<\/p>\n<h3>Enable\/Disable Through\u00a0Customizer<\/h3>\n<p>Some of the themes have options to show\/hide options for powered text in the footer. But usually, these features is available only on the premium version. If you are using the premium version, usually you can check these options inside Appearance &gt; Customize and you can see some section of Footer Section or similar.<br \/>\nIf there are no options to hide or add your own powered by text, you can check the below-mentioned steps.<\/p>\n<h3>Easy Solution &#8211; Hide that section via custom CSS<\/h3>\n<p>One of the easiest methods to hide powered by text is custom CSS. Follow the below-mentioned steps to add custom CSS\u00a0to your website.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Login to your WordPress dashboard as an Admin<\/li>\n<li>Scroll over \u2018Appearance\u2019 and then click on the \u2018Customize\u2019 menu<\/li>\n<li>Go to the Additional CSS section of the customizer.<\/li>\n<li>Add the given below CSS codes there.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><code>.site-info{<br \/>\ndisplay:none;<br \/>\n}<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I Hope, this CSS code will help to hide the powered by text from the footer.<\/p>\n<h3>Removing\/Editing via footer.php file<\/h3>\n<p>One of the best methods to customize powered by text is via footer.php file. WordPress theme has a footer.php file on the theme root folder. You can either customize the foooter.php file and upload that file on the server or you can directly edit via Appearance &gt; Editor.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the below-mentioned steps to edit the footer.php file via the admin panel.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Login to your WordPress dashboard as an Admin<\/li>\n<li>Scroll over \u2018Appearance\u2019 and then click on the \u2018Editor\u2019 menu<\/li>\n<li>Select the menu which you want to edit from\u00a0Select theme to edit:\u00a0 from a top right corner.<\/li>\n<li>Click on Theme Footer ( footer.php\u00a0) file.<\/li>\n<li>Edit the code as shown in the below image.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/site-info-1.png\" alt=\"Powered Text\" width=\"1893\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/site-info-1.png 1893w, https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/site-info-1-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/site-info-1-768x308.png 768w, https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/site-info-1-1024x411.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1893px) 100vw, 1893px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are customizing the <strong>twentyseventeen<\/strong> theme, site info is in another template file. Check template-parts\/footer\/site-info.php of theme file. You will see similar code in the below screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/site-info.png\" alt=\"Powered Text \" width=\"1880\" height=\"883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/site-info.png 1880w, https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/site-info-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/site-info-768x361.png 768w, https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/site-info-1024x481.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1880px) 100vw, 1880px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instead of customizing the parent theme directly, we recommend you customize the theme with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.templatesell.com\/blog\/child-themes-and-its-usage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Child Theme.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this blog article provided you the guidance and some best information about how to remove the powered text footer credit, specifically, \u201cPowered by WordPress\u201d footer link form your site.<\/p>\n<p>Is this article was helpful? Please do share with us your experience with the below comment section. We are very happy to hear from you and we will try to enhance it on our coming blogs.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a blog on any special topic related to WordPress, let us know. We will cover it on the coming blogs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>30% Discount Always \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.templatesell.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1028 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/discount30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/discount30.jpg 728w, https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/discount30-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the themes of WordPress use footer section to display powered by text. You can see similar text like &#8220;Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Penman by Template Sell&#8221;.\u00a0 If you are running corporate site or developing the site for the clients, generally you want to remove it or customize it.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the Free WordPress themes don&#8217;t have options to remove the powered by text in the footer. In that case, this blog post is very helpful to remove it.<\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering about how to remove or edit this, we are here to help you with stepwise instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,9],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-and-tutorials","tag-themes","tag-wordpress"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/powered-by-text-wordpress.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9LLEg-6m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templatesell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}