How to edit your wordpress theme footer
themes 11 CommentsIf you’ve downloaded one of the free wordpress themes from this site, you’ll notice there is a place for you to put links in the footer of the theme. Today, I’ll teach you how to do that 
Here’s a video
And the following is the text walk through
1. Login to your WordPress’s admin panel and navigate to Appearance > Editor.
2. In the right hand side look for the link “footer.php” and click on it.
3. Look for the following code.
<a href="#">Contact Us</a> | <a href="#">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="#">Trademarks</a> | <a href="#">Privacy Statement</a><br />
4. Replace # with your link and replace Contact Us with what you want to say.
Do this for the rest of the links.
If you want to delete one or more, you can delete one at a time by just deleting
<a href="#">Contact Us</a> |
And so on. Don’t forget to click “Update” at the bottom of the page to see your changes.
Thank you for the informative instructions on both headers and footers.
Do you need to purchase any extras for this to work? Under my apperance panel I only have Edit CSS not Editor? My site is hosted by WordPress also, not sure if that makes a difference. I am new to this any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Gary
Hi Gray,
These themes can not be used if you host at WordPress.com.
You’ll need to host your blog on your own to use these themes or any others.
Have you read my report?
Hi Craig,
Thank you for the information. Always wanting to learn more things to do with WP and how to improve or edit.
Found you through Tiff.
Thanks again.
Diana
I want to change my footer website, i used mystics theme. How can i change credit in footer?
I need to put the terms of service in the footer, and I see you can remove the link but what I want to know is, where do you put the page for terms of service, do you start a new page which would appear in pages anyway? Also how do you do the copyright “c” with a circle around it? thanks for the help.
Hi Samuel,
You will start a new page and to keep it from showing up in the navigation under the header, you will need to use a plugin called Exclude pages. Once you install that plugin you’ll see a box you can check of when writing a page to say “do not include page in navigation.”
About the copyright, find it somewhere online, copy and paste it into your footer.
Hope this helps.
Not sure, it’s not my theme and changing the credit is not far to the author.
Ah…I see, thanks ..yes that’s what I could not figure out, how to keep that page hidden, I did come across that plugin you mentioned. So thanks …now I learned something new. Thanks again for all your help. Sam
Hi,
I have created a theme and i want to create the footer links that will not be removed. if it is removed the theme should stop functioning…
can someone please help me doing that???
Thanks
Sorry, I do not think that is possible. I’ve never seen such a function. I’d Google it if I were you or find a PHP programmer and ask him/her.