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I want to remove the "powered by wordpress" and theme name in the footer, but all the tutorials refer to clicking on the "Appearance" tab, clicking on an edit button, and then going to the php templates on the right sidebar. It seems like Wordpress has changed since these tutorials and is no longer allowing access to php templates. No matter what I do to the CSS code, the footer is not budging. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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WordPress absolutely allows access to theme templates in Editor. Is that publicly available theme? This is very hard to answer "in theory", too many possibilities. – Rarst♦ Dec 17 '10 at 7:59
Hi @DSW - If you can give more info it would help. Do you have the name of the theme? Do you have a URL for the site where you can point us? Why can you not access to your site code via FTP? Why can you not find the file in /wp-content/themes/%your_theme%/footer.php where %your_theme% in the directory where your theme is located? – MikeSchinkel♦ Dec 17 '10 at 9:12
It sounds like to me that your files aren't writeable. Does it say this "You need to make this file writable before you can save your changes." at the bottom of your theme file options? You need to change the permissions of the theme folder via ftp or ssh to access the files. – eileen.carpenter Dec 17 '10 at 15:01

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Tweaking it in the PHP code shouldn't be too hard. You don't need to really know any PHP at all. Just need to CTRL+F to find that phrase you want to remove.

But if you absolutely want to do it with just CSS, it is possible to hide it with {display:none}. The code will still load, but just be hidden from visibility to a user. You will need to find the class, id, or html element that contains that text though.

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