How to Remove Powered by WordPress in WordPress Themes

How to Remove Powered by WordPress in WordPress Themes - When you use WordPress and install WordPress theme, then you will see the words "Powered by WordPress" at the bottom of the theme or the footer of the WordPress themes. Almost all WordPress themes There are  these writing.

Default WordPress  theme using the footer area to display the link "Powered by WordPress". Many developers theme also use this area to add their own credit, so it looks like the "Powered by WordPress" or the best theme developers such as mythemeshop using the words "Powered by MyThemeShop" theme footer section is made.

Maybe you as a site owner WordPress feel these writing are disturbing or might make your site look less professional and want to remove the link text "Powered by WordPress" in the footer of your site, especially if you are running a business website, it makes no sense if you show the credit. In this article, I'll show you some ways to remove "Powered by WordPress" link on your WordPress theme.

WHAT IS ALLOWED TO REMOVE LINK CREDITS WORDPRESS?

CMS WordPress is free, and it is released under the GPL license. And that means that it is completely legal to remove the credit link that connects you to WordPress site in the footer. Because the license gives anyone the freedom to use, modify, and distribute WordPress. Every WordPress theme or plugin that you download from WordPress.org, and even the most commercial theme for WordPress is also released under the same license.

So with the license you have the full right to do anything on the themes, plugins and even WordPress itself to the needs of your website including by removing link Powered by WordPress credits contained in the footer.

There are many ways to remove the credit link in the footer of WordPress themes, below I provide three ways, but I only recommend using 2 way over to remove the "Powered by WordPress".

HOW TO REMOVE  POWERED BY WORDPRESS LINK

1. PAGE "SETTING THE THEME"

Most developers theme is good to know that their users want to have the option to remove the footer link credit. That's why they make it available in the theme settings they distribute.

Every WordPress theme may have a different place to change or remove the footer link this credit. But to see it, the first place you should go is the theme Customizer WordPress in the menu Appearance» Customize.

Or if you use WordPress theme that have Theme Options, see to the section these settings. In the menu Appearance» Theme Options.

2. EDIT FOOTER.PHP FILE

This second way is a bit complicated for users new WordPress or WordPress users who do not understand much about PHP script. But this way you can choose if you use WordPress theme does not have the option to delete or change credit or footer of your WordPress admin settings WordPress themes, then the only choice you have to do is to edit the footer.php code.

Simply open this file in a text editor and search for text credit footer as "Powered by", and the section will display the parts you need to be deleted.

<div class="site-info">
    <?php /** * Fires before the twentysixteen footer text for footer customization. * * @since Twenty Sixteen 1.0 */ do_action( 'twentysixteen_credits' ); ?>
    <span class="site-title"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></span>
    <a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'https://wordpress.org/', 'twentysixteen' ) ); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentysixteen' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a>
   </div>

<!-- .site-info -->

You can delete this text in whole or edit them to suit your needs.

3. ADD CSS CODE

You can eliminate Powered by WordPress using CSS code, but this method does not completely eliminate the credit link but just hide. You can use code that is quite simple: use (display: none).

To use the code you have to find CSS class or id of the text or the link "Powered by WordPress" inspect element you can use your browser or with the aid of Add Ons firebug. If the Class or ID has been found, please open the file style.css WordPress theme you use, or if you have a child theme, put the CSS file it. The full code like the following:

#site-info {display:none}

But you need to know that it can be risky on your site's SEO. And Google does not like hidden links with (display: none) because that techniques used spammers to hide the link from the user but is still seen by Google (in the hope of higher rank).

By doing so might your site will also be marked as a spammer by search engines, and it will cause you to lose rankings in search engines.

So whatever you do, do not use CSS method like this:

This method Although it looks simple and easy in application, it is not good for your WordPress SEO.

I would suggest to you to use the two methods above to remove the credit link in the footer instead of using CSS WordPress which adversely affects the SEO of your WordPress site.

The above are some of the ways that you can use to remove the credit link footer "Powered by WordPress" on a WordPress theme. Hopefully this article useful and good luck.