How to remove powered by wordpress from the Footer – Hide wordpress credit

Whether its WordPress.com users or self-hosted WordPress.Org websites, maximum of the new users have this question? The way to cover the WordPress credit links from footer. People (especially the  new users) assume that with the aid of casting off the credit links in footer, they could hide that their website is running on WordPress platform. Fake announcement, today even a non-tech savvy can effortlessly discover that your website online runs on WordPress. But in any case if you want no longer to show the links in footer, then it’s simple to do it.

Removing blog at WordPress.com

If you are running your site at free platform of wordpress that is WordPress.com then in your footer you can see “blog at WordPress.com” instead of “powered by WordPress”. Your custom theme design grants you the ability to remove that credit links by using CSS. After all going through the WordPress forum we came to know that it violatesWordPress TOS. You are not permitted to remove WordPress.com credit link and if you do so then your site will be suspended. Even WordPress.com VIP users should need to hold the footer credit link.
Check out CNN website’s footer.
Anyway the self-hosted WordPress.org website is fully under your control and you can make whatever you want.

How to remove powered by WordPress

Recently users asked us about how to remove powered by WordPress link on the footer of the website and even some asked about changing the credit link and name. If you are a web design company then you wish to remove or change the powered by WordPress from your clients websites. WordPress.org is licensed under GPL, so you don’t have to worry about customizing the credit links in your footer.
Some premium themes have the option where you can edit your footer straight from the theme panel. But how about free themes (twenty eleven, twenty twelve, and twenty thirteen); all you need to do is edit your footer.php file.  Go to Appearance >> Editor in your WordPress dashboard and open footer.php file. Now you will see a line like this, just remove it or modify it accordingly. It’s clear in the code, where you can change the WordPress link and powered by WordPress text.

1	<div class="site-info">

2	<?php do_action( 'twentytwelve_credits' ); ?>

3	<a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'http://wordpress.org/', 'twentytwelve' ) ); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Semantic Personal Publishing Platform', 'twentytwelve' ); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentytwelve' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a>

4	</div><!-- .site-info -->

The above method is a temporary method for removing the powered by WordPress text and link, but when you update the theme it appears again. So by using CSS you can hide it forever.
Just copy the following CSS and paste it in your theme’s custom CSS file.

1	.site-info {

2	display: none;

3

}

It may vary from theme to theme, the above CSS trick works on twenty twelve theme. Whereas in the twenty eleven div id is site-generator <div id=”site-generator”> and in such case you have to add the CSS like this.

1	#site-generator {

2	display: none;

3

}

Having credit links in footer is a nice idea because you can show some respect to WordPress and to your theme author.
Hope this post helped you on how to remove powered by WordPress text and links in footer of your website.