{"id":25158,"date":"2018-10-16T16:49:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/?page_id=25158"},"modified":"2024-02-28T07:35:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T07:35:20","slug":"how-to-edit-footer-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wordpress-tutorials\/how-to-edit-footer-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Edit Footer in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After you\u2019ve <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/install-wordpress-zacky\/\">installed WordPress<\/a> on your chosen domain, what you need to do, to create the website you\u2019ve always wanted is to <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/install-wordpress-theme\/\">install a theme<\/a>. \u00a0Whether you decide to use a free theme or a paid one, what you\u2019ll see, most often than not, is a footer, dedicated to the theme creators, and WordPress. This tutorial will show you <strong>how to edit the footer in WordPress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How to Edit Footer in WordPress<\/h2>\n<p>First things first, a lot of the modern themes, are providing you with an option to change the footer.<\/p>\n<p>To change the footer, you need to go to the theme customization page. How to get there was covered in previously published WordPress Tutorials. Namely, in <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/customize-wordpress-theme\/\">how to customize a WordPress theme<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/change-name-wordpress\/\">how to change the name of a WordPress blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When you go to the theme customizing page, what you need to do, is to look around, and find out, whether the theme chosen by you, is offering you the opportunity to change any <strong>Theme Options<\/strong> or <strong>Footer Options<\/strong>. Look around. Is there anything that suggests that you\u2019ll be able to edit the footer? Bear in mind that the footer might be called the <strong>bottom<\/strong>, or <strong>bottom bar<\/strong>. And, of course, such an option may not be available.<\/p>\n<p>In this particular case, the theme installed on our Tutorial \u2018experimental\u2019 website is offering the users the option to edit the footer. These options are hidden in the menu item <strong>Theme Options-&gt;Footer Options<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25155 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/footer-options-164x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25156 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Theme-options-160x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"522\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what the footer looks like before any changes are applied.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25159 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/footer-before-changes-300x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"132\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is what it will look like when you customize it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25160 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/footer-after-changes-300x66.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After you\u2019ve installed WordPress on your chosen domain, what you need to do, to create the website you\u2019ve always wanted is to install a theme. \u00a0Whether you decide to use a free theme or a paid one, what you\u2019ll see, most often than not, is a footer, dedicated to the theme creators, and WordPress. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customization"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Edit Footer in WordPress | WordPress Tutorials | AwardSpace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"if you are trying to fully customize your new WordPress website, you need to edit the footer, as well. 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