Last updated on March 26th, 2018 at 07:07 am
Twenty Seventeen is one of the default themes that come with a fresh new installation of WordPress. All of the default WordPress themes have a hyperlinked text in the theme’s footer.
Twenty Seventeen comes with a ‘Proudly Powered By WordPress’ footer credit and the entire sentence is actually hyperlinked.
There’s nothing bad about it except that there are some users that are concerned with the SEO implications of that text in the footer which links directly to WordPress.org.
If you’re one of the admins that would like to keep the default WP 2017 Twenty Seventeen theme without that annoying text in the footer, then here’s what to do.
Remove the annoying ‘Proudly Powered By WordPress’ text:
- Log in to your wp-admin area and go to Appearance -> Editor
- Then on the Edit Themes page, click on Theme Footer (footer.php):
- Once you open footer.php, scroll down and find the line which has site’, ‘info’
- Replace ‘info’ with ‘none’
- Then just click on the Update file button
- That’s it! Visit your WordPress site again and you will see the change!
Use a CSS code to remove Proudly Powered by WordPress
To hide the ‘Proudly Powered by WordPress’ text from your theme’s footer, paste the following code in your Custom CSS file
.site-info { display: none; }
And don’t forget to save the changes
