How to remove the Copyright Text from WordPress?

You have instal­led Word­Press and now want to remo­ve or chan­ge the text Powered by Word­Press or Proud­ly pre­sen­ted by Word­Press? I will explain how you can do that in this litt­le tuto­ri­al.

Would­n’t it be much fan­cier to chan­ge the Powered By Word­Press text to some­thing bet­ter like this: “Copy­right 2021 by your com­pa­ny”?

First, this is a copy­right noti­ce. You should the­r­e­fo­re always cla­ri­fy whe­ther you can remo­ve this noti­ce at all.

With the offi­ci­al the­mes direct­ly from WordPress.org, it is usual­ly allo­wed becau­se Word­Press publishes the the­mes on the basis of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.

How can I remove the hint “Proudly presented by?” from WordPress? #

You have various opti­ons for remo­ving the note:

• Com­ment the code within the footer.php file.
• Hide the text with CSS.

The neat solu­ti­on is to com­ment out the code in footer.php. Howe­ver, you should only make the chan­ge in the child the­me. Other­wi­se, all chan­ges made by you will be over­writ­ten during a the­me update. If you do not have a child the­me yet, you can read our tuto­ri­al on how to crea­te a child the­me on Word­Press.

Edit the WordPress footer.php, to remove the powered by text.

Edit the footer.php file by loo­king for the fol­lo­wing block and com­men­ting it out:

<p class="powered-by-wordpress">
   <a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'https://wordpress.org/', 'twentytwenty' ) ); ?>">
      <?php _e( 'Powered by WordPress', 'twentytwenty' ); ?>
   </a>
</p><!-- .powered-by-wordpress -->

Take a look at the excerpt from footer.php. You have to com­ment out or remo­ve the red mark­ed area in order to remo­ve the powered by Word­Press text.

Of cour­se, this also works with other the­mes. While the code is slight­ly dif­fe­rent, the steps are gene­ral­ly the same.

Hide the powered by text from WordPress with CSS

To do this, switch to the Word­Press Cus­to­mi­zer (Design> Cus­to­mi­zer> Addi­tio­nal CSS).

The­re, you can now store the CSS to hide the Powered By Word­Press text.

.powered-by-wordpress{
    display:none;
}

Fazit #

It was as simp­le as that. I hope the tuto­ri­al hel­ped you and that you were able to remo­ve the copy­right noti­ce suc­cessful­ly. If you have any ques­ti­ons, plea­se feel free to lea­ve us a com­ment. As a Word­Press agen­cy, we look for­ward to sup­port­ing you.