The Easiest Way To Change The Footer Copyright Credits On Any WordPress Theme
Welcome back for another video my name is
Adam from WPCrafter.com where I make videos
for non-techies like me and in this video
I’m gonna show you the fastest and the easiest
way to change the footer copyright credit
on any WordPress website in it doesn’t matter
what theme you’re using now I made a video
on this topic about a year ago and if you
look on YouTube it has over hundred thousand
views on it and that’s because this is a hot
topic now with so many free themes that are
available for WordPress and commercial claims
while these free ones what they do is they
make it pretty much impossible to change that
footer copyright credit and you might not
want that footer copyright credit and there’s
no reason why you have to have it in after
watching this video your be able to change
your footer copyright credit to whatever you
wanted to be so I have a simple demo site
here and it’s very basic and I have this footer
copyright credit and I don’t want it so I’m
in a show you how to change it is good to
be super easy and anyone can do it and in
fact on the to do it on several themes once
we have it set up it is super easy to do so
let’s first log into the backend of our WordPress
website and what I need you to do is go to
plug-ins and click on add new and I need you
to install this plug-in that will be used
to do it now or not to be using any changing
and he got cold or installing child themes
and copying files and searching through think
it’s it’s not going to be that complicated
can be quite easy number to walk you through
all of it now the name the plug and that I
want you to install is called real-time a
find and replace so just do a quick search
for that click on the install button and then
click on the activate button now what is going
to do as this can add a new option here under
tools and is good at this new option that’s
is a real-time find replace go ahead and click
on that is can it take us to the options of
for this plug-in now what you want to do is
kind of explain to you what it does and how
it works now you this plug-in to be used for
so many different things and what you get
comfortable with it you’re going to pretty
much be blown away at what you can do with
this plug-in when it allows you to do is to
look at your website and see any bit of text
that is on your website and be able to change
that text that is that is that simply is not
powerful and the thing is you don’t even need
to know in WordPress where to go to change
that bit of text so first thing before we
get started into using this lets go ahead
and create what we want our new copyright
to be now this is a very easy process I want
to go to pages click on all pages in them
that opens up go ahead and click on add new
now we actually delete this page is just so
that we can use it to generate some of the
HTML that we might need to maybe make a part
of our copyright Boulder a different color
or italicize or something like that or maybe
a larger font that’s all work and he uses
for you can go ahead and delete this page
afterwards let’s make sure on this visual
tab we don’t want to be on the text tab we
want to be on the visual tab and if you don’t
have this bottom row of options just click
on this bun) toolbar toggle as we want those
options as we might want to apply them to
our new copyright so I just typed our copyright
in a minute to show you how we can edit it
so it’s a copyright like this and I’m to put
the start year in him and put to the year
we are in right now which is 2016 and then
I’m going to maybe put a hyphen and I will
put the name of my website WPCrafter.com okay
so I can just copy this is a little bit of
plaintext but if you want to spruce it up
say we wanted the whole thing bold we can
highlight it all and click on be to make it
bold if we wanted a section of it to be in
italics we can kind of highlight that and
click on the button there to make it italics
like that and if there is a section we wanted
underlined we can highlighted and click on
this underlying option you can see I’m able
to change it to be whatever I want to maybe
I want this 2013 to be a different color of
a highlight that and let’s choose say may
be this scholar right here why not so the
point is you can make this look however you
want and lastly we probably want to put a
link in for this but here are some of the
highlighted and I’m in a click on this link
option right there and want to type in a link
okay my link in the right there and I’m good
to click on apply so we’ve got this whole
bit of copyright here that we’ve just created
now the reason we did this in WordPress is
a really easy way to get it formatted the
way we want and then we click on this text
option we could see WordPress already added
this little bit of code to make it work so
now let me show you how the search find and
replace is going to work so we need to click
on add and it has this box here to put some
text here that we that is the area the copyright
as it is right now and then right here were
going to put what we want to change to know
when we show you how to do this now I’m in
the Safari browser meta-switch to the Firefox
web browser is not everybody uses Safari most
people don’t but everyone has access to Firefox
so here’s my existing site what we need to
do is we need to take a look at the source
code that generates this and just copy and
paste into the plug-in might sound more complicated
than it is so on Firefox I’m going to go and
click on the right button on my mouse and
there’s option here this is a view page source
now if you’re using chrome is can have a very
similar option summit click on view page source
and it opens up this bunch of text now what
you know it or not when someone visits your
website your website gives the web browser
what you see right now this bit of code and
your web browser takes his code and make the
site look like this so we need to find a little
bit of code in here that tells your web browser
to show this and what you do is research this
for this word copyright some ago here and
you can do a search on the page and in Firefox
it pulls up this little bar right here and
I’m in a type in copyright and as soon as
I typed it and found where was on the page
so I want to copy this bit of code you see
how it looks a little different it has this
this right here for that copyright symbol
and there’s the little bits of codes we want
this whole little bit so I’m in a highlight
all the way across and this is where it ends
words is Go Daddy but I want this bracket/A
but I don’t want the bracket/dip so I’m sure
you on three or four different themes how
easy this is this is all that we want and
I went to copy it into my clipboard and then
I may go back to the plug-in rinses find phenomena
pasted in right there okay so this is the
bit of code that should that tells your web
browser to show that copyright nets over after
okay so let’s go back to where we made that
copyrights and a copy this into my clipboard
and I’m at a pace that words is replaceable
easily this plug-in were telling it when you
see this code don’t show that code instead
show this code rights only go ahead and click
on update settings go to the front end of
site in a refresh the page so you know it
works if this changes K and I just to refresh
and there’s that new copyright that I made
up I was a urinal while on that looks more
professional I did this on it on purpose to
show you that you can format this however
you want to format it but there is our new
copyright now I’m going to show you how to
do this in two other themes or three other
themes it’s going to just take maybe 30 seconds
of theme and then I’m gonna tell you some
things that you want to be aware of that might
break this came so let’s just go ahead and
right here I’m not gonna save this almanac
go to themes in I’m going to change my theme
so many changes to the ski shop which is a
very popular theme click on activate now when
I go to the front and on my site and do a
refresh the copyright is totally changed to
what they push in there and that’s this proudly
powered by WordPress so let me go back to
Firefox to close this to do my refresh and
I need to look at the source and do a search
for maybe this word proudly so in a right-click
view page source and I’m in a pull up the
find and I’m in a tie proud and there it is
so I want to start on this theme right here
and I want to go all the way down to the last
bid which is this themes for WP and you can
see it themes for WP so on a copy that into
my clipboard and now I’m in a go back to my
find and replace in I’m going to change this
right here to what is in this particular theme
and I’m a click on update settings so now
what I do refresh if it worked this should
change to that silly copyright that I created
and there it is my silly copyright that I
created okay so that’s another theme let’s
try with this Max store actually not let me
skip it you’re getting the point I’m in a
switch to the Sydney theme which is a very
popular theme go to the front and do a refresh
and when I scroll down you can see right here
it’s something similar the probably powered
by it’s going to Firefox to do my refresh
anima scroll down you could see it’s it’s
not my custom one I’m in a right-click and
view page source animal to search the page
and this one also starts proudly like that
and here it is it’s right here and it goes
all the way down to words is by a themes.rumor
I said we don’t want that bracket/div so that’s
why I’m copying it all the way to the end
there a copy that into my clipboard and I’m
in a go back in here a highlight in almond
paste it into an update settings now this
one might look a little different because
it’s a different colored background and I
coded in I think was that red reddish color
so that the only spot where it might look
weird someone to do refresh and there it is
you can see it so I fear you’re in a dark
colored background you might want to change
the font color to be something lighter so
it’s easy to see now let me show you what
could be done that might break it so if I
go back here and a better example would be
with the primer theme right here so we just
activate the primer thing okay and so when
I go back to the front and I switch themes
and it’s different now the copyright that
is generated on this theme and maybe your
theme will have a year so you see versus 2016
well if it becomes 2017 on January 1 that
string of text is gonna change and that will
make it probably revert to the old copyright
credits you need to go in and change it to
2017 another caveat is right here word says
site name will it’s auto pulling this from
what I have configured in Word press and so
I change my site name it’s going to break
it so let me show you what I mean by that
and how to fix it so I need to do a refresh
and I need to find that again someone ago
to view page source and I’m gonna do a search
for copyright so here is that little bit okay
so right here this could change in 2017 70
highlighted like that and I’m a go back into
the find and replace input that in the do
my update settings okay so now are back to
our custom our custom copyright remember I
said of the year changes it might revert to
the old copyright or if I change the site
name let me see what happens when I change
the site name somehow go to settings and then
general and here’s where it has that phrase
site name what if I change this to WP crafter
like that and then I saved it now when I go
here and do a refresh that string of information
changed because this little bit is pulling
dynamically from how I have it set in the
theme and this is as well the year so when
it changes it’s gonna revert back but not
to worry all you have to do is go back into
your real-time find and replace and change
it so right here’s where it says site name
so if I put that to what I change the site
name to and click on update settings it’s
going to match again and so when I click on
refreshing goes back so the same things can
happen when it turns two 2017 or 18.
Have to go back here in change that date from
6 to 7 to 8 or whatever the year might be
now this plug-in is super powerful you can
use it to change any bit of text on your website
it’s not just for changing the footer copyright
if you have an address and you don’t know
maybe that address appears on 30 different
places on your website and instead of going
into all those places and changing it you
can just go right here and change it or if
there’s something that your theme is using
like say it’s a blog post and it says the
word tags and you know wanted to say tag you
might want to say topics you can use this
to do that as well there are so many uses
for this plug-in and I think you would agree
that this is the easiest way to change the
footer copyright credit on any word press
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Thank you so MUCH! Still awesome advice in 2020.
This is so useful in 2019. I appreciate it.
Thank you a lot Adam! It works!
Hi Adam
My goodness, I have literally tried EVERYTHING and I just cannot get my footer to change.
It must read © 2020 Cosmic Journeys – All Rights Reserved
but the fricken ” | Newspaper Lite by themecentury.” just stays put.
Please help!!
Hello am struggling to edit the text on the footer of my website as there is no place to late copyright theme, need your advice
Colibri theme wordpress.
Thanks, a lot sir it was really helpful for me..!! I will definitely use it on my website…
Not working on my site !
Works on every site though. Perhaps you should rephrase it to “I can’t get it to work on my site”. That would be more accurate.
Hi there, I have had not had luck with this method on heavily encrypted sites with the copyright in a PHP function, rather than HTML. Mostly these are one-page sites. You recently posted a great video with a solution for that for the Storefront site, but how about a solution for business one-page, or one-page express? I was always able to figure this out in the theme templates until the last year, and I have been agonizing over it. The website URL I am sending you is an example of this. (Love your videos BTW).
great job , thanks a lot
Thank you Adam it works!
God bless you
Very Good!!!!
Great video! and it seems so easy – But I might think that the theme I’m using is different and that they have taking precautions for this trick, because it does not work. Maybe you can take quick a look at the sourcecode? 😀
Thank you 🙂
Thank you Adam for the updated video tutorial. I had seen the earlier version and then read about the updated tutorial in the comments.
I tried it and it works like a dream. My Mom’s art website needed the copyright range for a longer period and I was too scared to ‘play’ with the coding of her website.
Super thank you!
Glad to hear it worked out.
Great & thanks I was trying to get this kind of simple and easy tricks.
Thank You Very Much….Love you for this video…great one…keep it up…helped me a lot …
Thank you so much! very helpful for the non-techie I am
Hello Adam,
Piggybacking on my last comment, I tried this method, and it worked, even on Spacious! Thank you, a million times! You are the best!
Thanks for the update! I’m happy it works for you.
Thank you for posting this! Does this work with the Spacious theme? The team there told me that it’s impossible to change their footer copyright text unless I upgrade to their pro version.
Thanks in advance.
It’s not impossible just follow the instructions of the tutorial and you will be able to change the footer copyright text.
Thanks for this video, It helped me a lot
Your welcome! Glad to hear.
Thanks Adam! But is there a way to throw away the plugin and keep the changes it made?
Unfortunately not 🙁
I cannot make this work for Restaurant and Cafe Raratheme. Can you please help?
Thank You Thank You Thank You! I was so frustrated until I found your video.
Adam, thanks so much for making this video, it worked perfectly!! You have helped a 72 year old great grandma get my website up called GrantLessons where I am going to help nonprofit organizations write applications for funding for their programs. Thanks for your contribution to my work!!
My pleasure Sandie!!!
What about Hestia? It is nearly impossible to change the copyright text in that theme!
Finally ! Thank you so much !!
Excellent! Thank you soo much! I was going crazy. helped me out immensely!
Not working for Astra theme, can you please help me?
You don’t need this for the Astra Theme. You can change the footer to whatever you want in the customizer.
THANK YOU!!! Helped me soooo very much!
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for GeneratePress theme.
It should work fine with GeneratePress. The better way to change the copyright in GeneratePress is to visit their form and there is a small snippet of code to do it.
Do you mean footer.php?
Nope, its done via a custom function that the document on their site will have.
Hi Adam, sorry but it didn’t work on Mesmerize theme!
It works on every theme. You most likely have caching or something like that which will need to be flushed.
Thank you, Adam, for your response. I have tried flushing the cache and didn’t work, I do agree with you it should work on every theme (most of them at least), but not Mesmerize! The developers made it hardcoded in the theme files to force users to buy their premium version.
Hi Fareed, without installing plugin mentioned by Adam and performed trial and error, is there any way to recognize that it will not work?
Awesome!! Thank you so much for such a simple fix to a major issue! Love how you make it so easy to understand and follow!
Thank you Adam, it does work very well. I develop and host several sites and there is one which allows me to either change the year in the copyright or the designer details in the copyright. But I cannot change both parts. Please see the link to the site I am referring to below. Could you possibly supply me with a solution? Thank you! (please reply to me by email if at all possible)
Did you try the tutorial to do it yourself?
Thank you, Adam – this video was very helpful!
thanks for this tutorial
Your welcome!
You are great thanks it worked like a charm