How to Edit Footer Copyright Text in any WordPress Theme

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How to Edit Footer Copyright Text in Any WordPress Theme

Hi guys! Today we are going to see how you can change the copyright text on your WordPress website. Let’s say you have a WordPress website, and you have a copyright text at the bottom of your site, like this: After watching this video, you will be able to remove or change your copyright text, like this. So this is Bryan from website learners, and let’s change our copyright text. First, let’s see our site, where we have our copyright text. So this is the text we are going to change.

 

Now, to change this text, there are two methods. The first method is to change your theme settings using the ‘Customize’ option. So to change the text, let’s click customize. It will take you to this page. Now click 'Footer. And click ‘Footer Bar. Here you can see the copyright section. Now, to change the text, not all themes will have this option. First, let's delete this default text. And now, enter the text you want. I’m going to enter my copyright text.

 

Now, to save the changes, click 'Publish'. So now if we go back to our website, you can see that this is the default copyright text now, and if we click refresh, you can see that we have changed our copyright text. So this is how you can change your copyright text on your website. Okay, now some themes will not have an option to change the copyright text inside the ‘Customize’ menu. So how do you change the copyright text when your theme does not have this option? Next, let’s go to the second method of changing the copyright text, which is to use a plugin to change the text.

 

To change the copyright text using this method, we first need to install the plugin. So to install the plugin, let’s go to our WordPress dashboard, Go to ‘Plugins’ and click ‘Add New. Here, search for ‘Visual Footer Credit Remover, and you will get this plugin. Now, this is the plugin that will help us change our copyright text. So to install this plugin, let’s click ‘Install’ and then click 'Activate. So now we have successfully installed the plugin. Now, to change the copyright text, let’s go to ‘Tools’ and click ‘Visual Footer Credit Remover. It will take you to this page. Here, select the footer text that you want to change.

 

Once you click the text, it will be removed from here. And now enter the text you want here. I’m going to enter my copyright text, so once you have done that, just click ‘Save’ and now click ‘Ok, and your text will be changed. So now, if we go back to our website and click refresh, you can see that we have successfully changed the copyright text using the plugin. Okay… That’s it, guys. So this is how you can change your footer copyright text on your WordPress website. Now, if you want to learn more about WordPress, click here to get our free ebook, The ‘7 Must-Do Things After Launching Your WordPress Website'. And also, make sure you subscribe to the website Learners to get more videos like this one.

 

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