How to edit your wordpress theme footer

If 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.




4 Responses to “How to edit your wordpress theme footer”

#885. Greg Wight Says:

Thank you for the informative instructions on both headers and footers.

#1057. Gary Says:

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

#1058. Craig Says:

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?


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