There are WordPress theme that has some encrypted links under the footer area of your website. Sometimes if you edit and remove those links, then your website will not work anymore. Yes, you can installed those kind of themes on your website but in order to removed the links you need to purchase that one to the developer of the theme.
Well, here you will learn how to removed those footer links without loosing some $$$ on your pocket.
Steps How To Remove Encrypted Footer Links
1. Go to “Appearance” and click “Editor”
2. Under you theme files, find the index.php file
3. We are going to make some changes on the file by finding <?php get_footer(); ?> (use Ctrl F if your not able to find that code)
4. Once you find it, we’re going to add some simple codes as our mark. It must look like this
<!– Footer starts here–>
and
<!– Footer ends here–>
These codes mean nothing so you can add anything you want between <!– and–>. They just play a role as the start and end of the footer.
Now, are code will look like this
<!– Footer starts here–>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
<!– Footer ends here–>
5. After adding that code on the footer file, update the changes.
6. Now kindly browse your website and view the page source. Right click the page and click page source. For Firefox you use short key of Ctrl U to view the page source.
The image will look like this and you need to copy the code where we place our mark. See image below…
Copy the code and replace the whole footer file. Once you have done that you can now freely edit the footer that you want and remove all the irrelevant footer links on your website.
Leave a message if you’re having a problem.
Thanks for this post. Im using Remona theme for my wordpress blog and I try to apply what you have said above. I successfully remove the encrypted links in the footer of my blog. :-)
Hi Adam, Great find! Glad you found this post useful.