Copyright text

*Looks*

That’s weird. That default copyright message is incorrect and should not be there, it makes it look like the theme author is copyrighting your work on your blog.

One way to adjust that is to update the option in your theme’s customizer.

1. Log into your site and click on the “Customize” link on your admin bar. My test site is named “Bang! Boom! Pow!” and on the home page the link is on the top left.

2. Once your there, click on the General Settings link.

3. In that new box type in the text you want in HTML.

For examples:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars">Copyright Monkeys From MARS!</a>

Once you click “Save and Publish” then you’ll see this new link.

The footer will still contain that link to their site though. The option is just the first part.

Try following these steps to “Level UP” with a child theme.

Create and activate a child theme of Kale.

https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes

Create a directory in wp-content/themes named kale-child and put this file new named style.css in that directory with these lines in it.

/*
Theme Name: Kale Child theme
Description: A Child theme to modify the theme's footer
Version: 0.1
Template: kale
*/

Create in the child theme’s directory a functions.php file with these lines in it.

<?php

// Queue up the child theme CSS
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'kale_child_enqueue_styles' );

function kale_child_enqueue_styles() {

    $parent_style = 'parent-style';

    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}

What this will do is setup a safe area for you to make a copy of the theme’s footer.php file into your new kale-child directory and that’s the next step. By making a copy of that file in your child theme, you will not lose your edits when the Kale theme is updated by the author.

Copy the wp-content/themes/kale/footer.php file into wp-content/themes/kale-child/footer.php

In that new copy (not the original file) delete these lines. Just these lines, nothing else.

            <div class="footer-copyright">
                <ul class="credit">
                    <li><a href="https://www.lyrathemes.com/kale/"><?php esc_html_e('Kale, A Food Blog Theme', 'kale'); ?></a> <?php esc_html_e('by', 'kale'); ?> LyraThemes.com</a>.</li>
                </ul>
            </div>

You could hide that with CSS but this actually removes the theme’s link back to the author’s site from your WordPress installation.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by Jan Dembowski.