By now you are probably more than a little bit sick of seeing somebody else promoting themselves at the bottom of each page on your site!
If you are using the 2017 theme it will say at the bottom – “Proudly Powered by WordPress” (or something like that). Now it’s time for us to change that to represent your own branding.
If you have chosen a different theme you may be lucky to have an option as simple as what you see in the picture to the left. In this case, the theme offer has allowed the user to change the copyright text right in the administration panel. It is well worth having a look for this option in your theme before going any further with this post as the next bit (while it will work with any theme) is a bit more complicated.
Try following these steps.
- Log into the WordPress Dashboard.
- Click the Editor link on the Appearance section of the navigation to the left.
- On the right hand side, click the Footer link to edit the footer.php page.
Find the code that displays the footer text at the bottom. The image to the right shows what the code looks like in the “Twenty Twelve” theme.- Comment out the code for the default footer text and add your own footer text. In this example, the following code will be placed in the footer.
<p>Copyright © 2017, My TW10 website | by JohnJane Doe - Web Master</p>
- Click Update.
Now your footer will show the text you placed in the footer.php code.
This is your first taste of mixing some of the coding aspects of the Term One work with WordPress. Another challenge that you will face is trying to insert tables into WordPress.
Believe it or not, sometimes it is just more convenient to create something in Dreamweaver and then copy that code into the text view of the WordPress document builder screen.
Please make sure that the footer of your site represents you and your site. It should not be plugging somebody else’s theme or WordPress itself.