Title: symposium
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# symposium

 *  Resolved [lordjoshua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lordjoshua/)
 * (@lordjoshua)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/symposium/)
 * how do i get rid of “Powered by WP Symposium – Social Networking for WordPress
   v0.53.3” from the bottom of every page of my site? i don’t see any place within
   the admin section that allows for it. i want to use symposium, but i cant unless
   i can remove this. thanks in advance for any assistance.

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 *  [Joey Kudish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkudish/)
 * (@jkudish)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/symposium/#post-2091302)
 * If you read the plugin developer rules on this page: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/)
   you will notice that this plugin is breaking rule #4. That being said, you could
   contact the plugin author and make them aware of this.
 * This is taken from the faq of the plugin:
 * > Q. How can I get rid of the Powered By message? A. Because WP Symposium is 
   > covered by the GPL licence, you can edit and change the code – but remember
   > you’ll have to do it each time you upgrade. However, if you subscribe at [http://www.wpsymposium.com](http://www.wpsymposium.com)
   > and activate the Groups plugin, you can edit it through the admin area.
 * I downloaded the plugin and found this on line 798-799 of wp-symposium.php:
 *     ```
       // Powered by message
       	echo powered_by_wps();
       ```
   
 * Simply comment the second line (799) so that it looks like:
 *     ```
       // Powered by message
       	// echo powered_by_wps();
       ```
   
 * Good luck!
 *  Thread Starter [lordjoshua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lordjoshua/)
 * (@lordjoshua)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/symposium/#post-2091336)
 * Joachim – thanks! I downloaded the wp-symposium.php file and commented it out,
   and this did indeed solve the problem. Much obliged!
 *  [Joey Kudish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkudish/)
 * (@jkudish)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/symposium/#post-2091337)
 * Great, glad it worked.
 *  Thread Starter [lordjoshua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lordjoshua/)
 * (@lordjoshua)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/symposium/#post-2091709)
 * hi – so they did an update and of course he changed the code so that the “Powered
   by WP Symposium – Social Networking for WordPress v12.01.07” cannot be as easily
   commented out. can you take a look at it and see if you can figure out what he
   did to hide it?
 *  [Guillaume Assire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphagolf_fr/)
 * (@alphagolf_fr)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/symposium/#post-2091715)
 * The ‘powered by’ message can be edited from the Templates section of WP Symposium
   Settings page. Where else…?
 *  [EllsWeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellsweb/)
 * (@ellsweb)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/symposium/#post-2091716)
 * Why is it that people don’t look through the options of the plugins they are 
   working with? Do they always just want to jump on a forum and have someone else
   do it for them??
 * That’s funny..

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