A quick note – this tutorial is no longer relevant. The Elemental Framework now has the functionality to remove footer links built into the theme.
By default Elemental (and it’s child themes such as The Local) come with a link to Pro Theme Design in the footer. Obviously we’d love it if you kept this in place, but it’s by no means a requirement at all.
If you open up footer.php in Elemental you will see that there is no reference to Pro Theme Design, however we’re not trying to hide the links, what we’re trying to do is make the theme as flexible as possible, and so you can easily edit the links using a child theme and a simple filter in your child themes functions.php file (more info on child themes here).
Swap the credit link for a “Powered by WordPress link”
function changeFooterLinks($footerLinks) {
$footerLinks[1] = 'Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress';
return $footerLinks;
}
add_filter('bm_footerContent', 'changeFooterLinks');
Remove the credit entirely
function changeFooterLinks($footerLinks) {
unset($footerLinks[1]);
return $footerLinks;
}
add_filter('bm_footerContent', 'changeFooterLinks');
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That’s the good thing about child themes and frame works – you don’t wanna touch the core files.
On the other hand, who would want to rip off the Prancing Horse on the new Ferrari…
Your explanation for removing footer credit link seems so vague. cant able to modify it by a ordinary blogger by me….. can you please say where to place those code inside the footer.php file in elemental theme.
If you do this with Nominate, the first bit of code messes up the submit form in IE (clicking on a field doesn’t work anymore, must use the tab key etc), and hyperlinks big parts of it to the URL you add e.g. WordPress .org in the example aboie.
Nominate has this functionality in the control panel. There’s no need to do a hack in this way anymore
Ok, The deal is I didnt yet read anything , but whom ever wrote this ..just captivated my mind.
” we’d love it if you kept this in place, but it’s by no means a requirement at all. ” & I say
We love ur Theme that is why we’re here ..
But yet i have to know how to remove it ..
laterz
Hi – the latest version of the theme has an option to remove the credits from the footer. No need to follow this tutorial.
However on first glance it seems you didn’t purchase a license for the theme and as such will not get updates or customer support. If I am wrong then I apologise, and if I’m not then feel free to buy a copy and then I’d be more than happy to help
sometimes footer.php loads according to functions.php file.In that case just make changes of the links at footer.php first & then do the same changes in function.php by searching those links from the code(usally text files).I have done it by replacing the GamesHero theme from Flexi theme on my blog @ http://gfxstation.com/wordpress/