How to Remove Unwant Links from WordPress Footer

Graham Bill
Posted by Graham Bill December 23, 2010 3 Min Read

In face some free WordPress theme not allow you to change the footer credit link. If you are using WordPress themes created by others , it is essential that you maintain the credit link .But there are some cases where the creator links to some health or gambling sites to the WordPress theme footer .

These links would affect the search engine rankings of the linking blog . Credit links on WordPress theme footer are usually encrypted and normal users will not be able to remove those unwanted links .So here I am dealing with a very simple  method to remove unwant credit links from WordPress footer . We can play with any part of the  WordPress themes ,if they are  released under GP license . You don’t need to be an experience PHP programmer to remove credit links from WordPress footer . Before you remove this credit link read license carefully.

– The first step you need to go download software for open php file Notepad++ .and then go to open WordPress theme in your computer.

open Footer.php with Notepad++

you will see code encrypted like image bellow :

Screenshots  credit links from WordPress theme footer .

– Using Firefox browser to view source code footer with no encrypted code .
=> Open Firefox browser => view your theme (website) => right click => view page source (see on image bellow)
And then find <div id=”footer”> at the footer page
Select from  <div id=”footer”> to </html>and then copy this select source code
=> Go to footer.php remove all encrypted code and past code that you have copy from firefox.
=> Save it. Good luck.

These are actaully the code for encrypted footer section containing unwanted credit links .

Now you have removed unwanted credit links from your WordPress footer . Save the footer.PHP and Open up your blog to see what happens now .

( Please note that you should maintain credit links for copyrighted WordPress themes )