Removing the “Powered by WordPress” Link?

Question

Is it allowed to remove the "Powered by WordPress" link in the footer?

Answer 1

Yes WordPress is licensed using the GPL v2 license so you are "free" to do whatever you want to with it ("free" as in "free speech", not "free" as in "free beer!".)

Answer 2

Yes, and an easy way to suppress it, without modifying the actual HTML, is to use the following custom CSS:

#site-generator {
    display: none;
}

Answer 3

The plugin Adminimize has an option for this

Answer 4

The other option is to remove it entirely from functions.php. Search in functions.php for "powered" and take out the portion of code reading: . Powered by [wp-link].

Answer 5

Yes WordPress is licensed using the GPL v2 license so you are "free" to do whatever you want to with it. The plugin Adminimize has an option for this

Answer 6

Since you didn't specify a theme , I'll assume you are using the default theme, now TwentyEleven, or one that is similarly built.

In the theme's root directory, you will find the footer.php file. Look for the following html:

<div id="site-generator">
            <?php do_action( 'twentyeleven_credits' ); ?>
            <a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'http://wordpress.org/', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Semantic Personal Publishing Platform', 'twentyeleven' ); ?>" rel="generator"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentyeleven' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a>
</div>

Delete it, and save the file, or you can replace it with your own link like so:

<div id="footer-links">
    <a href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?>" rel="home'><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a>
</div><!-- #footer-links -->

Answer 7

Here's how to remove or modify the footer text in the WP admin, put this into functions.php of your theme :

function modify_admin_footer () {
  echo 'Developped by <a href="http://www.mycompany.com" target="_blank">My company</a>';
}
add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'modify_admin_footer');