{"id":49426,"date":"2022-02-23T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/?p=49426"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T07:46:53","slug":"remove-proudly-powered-by-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/remove-proudly-powered-by-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove “Proudly Powered by WordPress” From Your Footer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Want to remove “proudly powered by WordPress” from your site’s footer? 🤔<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WordPress is great, but there’s really no reason to keep the default disclaimer there. Luckily, it’s fairly simple to get rid of it. In this tutorial we will cover four different ways to do so, and show you the exact steps you need to take to get it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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What are we actually removing? 🤔<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before we get started, let’s just make sure we’re all on the same page on what it is exactly we’re going to be removing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you first log into a website that has a freshly installed version of WordPress<\/a> on it, you’ll most likely also have the default WordPress theme installed (from the Twenty-X<\/em> family). Some hosting providers give you the option to pick a different theme during the installation process, but most people don’t even notice this, much less take advantage of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In practice, this means you’re going to see the default WordPress settings that come with the default WordPress theme. This includes the “Proudly powered by WordPress” message in the footer of your new site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you decide to install a different theme, then the message might be replaced with whatever generic text the theme developer chose to put there instead. But that doesn’t really help you, because they’ll still be something there that you don’t want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which means you need a solution to remove it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s exactly what we’re going to show you how to do.<\/p>\n\n\n

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How to remove “proudly powered by WordPress?” <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the following section, you will learn not just how to remove the text but also modify it as per your needs. There are four main ways to do that. They are:<\/p>\n\n\n \r\n