Are you looking for a way to remove the
powered by WordPress area in your
website? Well keep watching in this video
I'll show you two methods we recommend
you use to remove the powered by
WordPress footer links on your site.
Before we get started we get the
question often of is it legal to remove
that and yes it is legal. WordPress is an
open source platform which means that
you can use it and change it up as you
want and depending on your theme that
you're using this should be very simple
most themes nowadays come with the
ability for you to be able to remove
that in the themes option. For instance
I'm using Michael Hyatt's get noticed
theme here and I'll show you how to do
it with this. Your theme might look a
little different but just dig around and
see if you can find the remove part. So
from the WordPress dashboard let's head
down to Appearance, Customize and your
theme will look a little bit different
but for this theme I'm going down to the
copyright area because I know that
that's where it's at and I can change
the text right here and also I have a
credit get noticed theme I can uncheck
that and you see my powered by area
is gone. So that's a very quick and easy way
that you can do that. Now if your theme
doesn't automatically have an area for
you to do that with then there's another
way that you can do this and it involves
a little bit of digging into some code
but I'll show you how to do that next.
You see down at the bottom of my site we
have the footer area of proudly powered
by WordPress. To remove that we need to
connect to our files on our server and
we'll be using an FTP client.
There are several FTP clients that you
can use. For this video I'll be using
FileZilla so you want to head over to
Filezilla-project.org and download
the one appropriate for your machine.
Once you install FileZilla this is what
it will look like. The next thing we want
to do is go ahead and add the
credentials to access our website. So
let's head over to File, Site Manager.
From here we can add a new site. Under
host you want to add your website name
your FTP credentials should have come to
you from your hosting provider via an email
or you can also email your hosting
provider and
ask them for the credentials if you
don't know them already. Under protocol
we'll choose FTP the encryption we want
to use explicit FTP over TLS if
available. That means that it is
encrypting the data that is coming from
our computer to our website so we want
to keep that. For a login type we want to
use normal next go ahead and add the
credentials for your user for the FTP.
Finally we can rename this and that
helps if you have multiple sites. Now I'm
going to click connect once it connects
you'll see a successful dialog up here
you'll also see all of your folders
coming over over here. After you've
connected you want to go to your wp-content area and go to themes. The theme
that we're working on is 2016 theme and
we'll need to adjust the files and we're
looking for our footer.php so let's
download that. Once we download that
let's go ahead and open it in a text
editor. I'll open it with notepad++
but any text editor will do. When
we're in there you just want to look for
the proudly powered by and this is the
whole div that we would want to remove
because it's the site info. You can
either remove this whole piece of code
or if you wanted to you could simply go
in here and say powered by and then
replace this information with something
that you'd want. For this video we'll
just remove this whole bit of code I'll
clean it up a little you need to save it
and then we will upload it back using
the FTP client. Once we go back over here
and click upload we do need to overwrite
and say yes once it's uploaded you can
go to your site and you see that the
proudly powered by is now gone. So those
are two methods that we recommend you
use to remove the power by on your
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