Today we are going to see How to edit footer copyright text in any WordPress theme.
Let’s say you have a WordPress website, and you have a copyright text at the bottom of your site, like this After reading this article, you will be able to remove or change your copyright text. So this is the text we are going to change.
Theme Customization Method – edit footer copyright text
Now to change this text, there are 2 methods. The first method is to change your theme settings, using the ‘Customize’ option. So to change the text, Let’s click ‘Customize’.
And it will take you to this page, Now click ‘Footer’.
Then click ‘Footer Bar’.
Note: now not all themes will have this option.
Here you can see the copyright section Now to change the text First, let’s delete this default text. And now, enter the text you want, I’m going to enter my copyright text.
Now to save the changes, Click ‘Publish’. So now if we go back to our website. You will see the default copyright text.
Now if we click refresh you can see that we have changed our copyright text.
So this is how you can change your copyright text on your website. Okay, Now, some themes will not have an option to change the copyright text inside the ‘Customize’ menu. So how do you change the copyright text when your theme does not have this option.
Plugin Method
Next, Let’s go to the second method of changing the copyright text, which is to use a plugin to change the text. To change the copyright text using this method.
First, we need to install the plugin So to install the plugin, Let’s go to our WordPress dashboard, Go to ‘Plugins’ And click ‘Add New’ Here, search for ‘Visual footer credit remover’ And you will get this plugin, Now, this is the plugin which will help us to change our copyright text.
So to install this plugin Let’s Click ‘Install’ and then click ‘Activate’ So now we have successfully installed the plugin.
Now, to change the copyright text Let’s go to ‘Tools’ And click ‘Visual Footer Credit Remover’ And It will take you to this page.
Here select the Footer text, which you want to change. Once you click the text, it will be removed from here. And now enter the text you want, here. I’m going to enter my copyright text.
So once you have done that, Just click ‘Save’ and now click ‘Ok’ And your text will be changed, So now, if we go back to our website, And click ‘Refresh’.
You can see that we have successfully changed the copyright text using the plugin. Okay… That’s it guys So this is how you can change your footer copyright text on your wordpress website. Now, If you want to learn more about WordPress, go to our blog page.
