How to Remove Proudly Powered by WordPress from Any Theme

Recently one of our users asked how to remove proudly powered by WordPress footer credit.

Almost all free WordPress theme comes with Powered by WordPress footer credit and most of them do not have the option to remove this footer credit.

If this footer credit exists on your site, it makes you a bit unprofessional. In addition, hackers easily find out your site is on WordPress.

In this tutorial, I'm going to share how to remove proudly powered by WordPress link from any themes.

How to Remove Proudly Powered by WordPress

By default, WordPress does not allow to remove or change proudly powered by WordPress link from the footer. But following this tutorial you can easily remove footer credit from WordPress theme. Here I will show three methods to remove it.

1. By WordPress Plugin


2. By CSS Code


3. By Editing Footer.php file

1. Change Proudly Powered by WordPress Using Plugin

First, you need to install and activate the Remove Footer Credit plugin on your WordPress site or blog. Click here to see the 3 different ways of installing WordPress plugin.

After activating the Plugin, click on the Tools >> Remove Footer Credit option. This will take you to the settings page of the plugin.



Now copy the footer link of your WordPress theme and paste it into the "Step 1: Enter text / HTML to remove (one per line)" box.

After this, enter your custom credit text in the "Step 2: Enter your own footer credit (one per line)" box. You can see the screenshots below.



Then, click on the "Save" button below. It will replace the footer link "Proudly powered by WordPress" with your custom credit text.

2. Remove Proudly Powered by WordPress USing CSS Code

This is the fastest and easiest method to remove the footer credit by adding some CSS code to the Theme Customizer.

Click on Appearance >> Customize >> Additional CSS and paste the following CSS code into the Additional CSS box.

.site-info { display: none; }

Now, click on Save button and refresh your website, the footer credit link will be gone.

3. Change Proudly Powered by WordPress Using Footer.php file

This method may be a bit difficult for new bloggers and website owners. But don't worry, you can easily remove or change proudly powered by WordPress in footer by following this step.

First, click on Appearance >> Editor >> Footer.php and replace the following code with your own custom credit.



Here I will replace this code with,

<a href=”https://justbrightme.com”>Customized by Aman Singh</a>

Now click on the save button and visit your website. The new text is Customised by Aman Singh.

Which plugin or method you use to remove "Proudly powered by WordPress" footer credit, let us know in the comments below..

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