September 2, 2010 One of the most frequently asked questions for new WordPress users is how to remove the “Powered by WordPress” link. Of course, it’s a nice thing to do to leave it in there, but WordPress is licensed under the GPL, so there’s no need to worry if you want to remove it. Perhaps you don’t want to advertise to the world that your site runs on WordPress. Here are two easy ways to remove that from your site’s footer:
Option 1: Remove it Using CSS
Method one is perhaps the simplest way. Go to your dashboard and find Appearance >> Editor and then select your style.css file. Paste this in there and you’re good to go:
#site-generator { display: none; }
Option 2: Remove it from footer.php
In your WordPress dashboard go to Appearance >> Editor and remove the section that looks like this:
<div id="site-generator"> <?php do_action( 'twentyten_credits' ); ?> <a href="<?php echo esc_url( __('http://wordpress.org/', 'twentyten') ); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e('Semantic Personal Publishing Platform', 'twentyten'); ?>" rel="generator"> <?php printf( __('Proudly powered by %s.', 'twentyten'), 'WordPress' ); ?> </a> </div><!-- #site-generator -->
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You should probably point out that this is only really relevant to the 2010 theme. Most themes these days tend not to include this code :)
Thanks for the script and the information. Have already included it. Keep them coming, I’ll check back.
I was thinking to include some other line my themes footer and I did not know it can be done editing footer.php. It can be done so easily..Thank you for the tips.
I’ve always been really hesitant of using display:none to hide a link. Start doing that too often and Googlebot may think you’re trying to hide links for SEO purposes.
thank you so much for this information :P i spent forever looking around till i found this article… not everyone wants to advertise they are using wordpress, especially since alot of spammers specifically target wordpress sites to get linkbacks…
Thanks again :P
Linda
Thanks for this very helpful information. :-)
Linda, spammers use so many ways to target blogs, so I don’t think this is a big issue.
It can be done so easily..Thank you for the tips
yes,it it good.
I was thinking to include some other line my themes footer and I did not know it can be done editing footer.php. It can be done so easily..Thank you for the tips.
Thanks for sharing Sarah
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Thanks for sharing, Sarah
Thanks for the helpful tips.
Thank you for this helpful information – it worked as it should..
Hafsteinn from Iceland
I appreciate you taking the time to create this post. It continues to be really useful to me indeed. Enjoy it.
thanks…..
Aadding the css to a child theme protects the revision from wordpress upgrades so you don’t have to repeat it:
#site-generator {
display: none;
}