How to Removing Proudly Powered by WordPress text from footer of Twenty ten theme

How to Removing Proudly Powered by WordPress text from footer of Twenty ten theme

Twenty ten theme is default theme of WordPress 3 and above.It is very simple yet effective theme.You can start building your blog using this theme and later can migrate to other themes if needed.The theme is also easily customizable.Bloggers tend to remove texts representing WordPress from the theme and replace them with their name or company name.

In the bottom right side of footer in Twenty ten theme there is text “Proudly Powered by WordPress”.If you want to remove this text then follow below steps

1. Open the folder wp-content/themes/twentyten in your wordpress installation.
2. Open the file footer.php in edit mode
3. Search for the text or go the the code line containing text site-info
4. add the line <!– in front of the line containing the text site-info to comment the lines.Adding this(<!–) will comment the div block of site-info.
5. Search for the text or go the the code line containing text site-generator.
6. add the line <!– in front of the line containing the text site-generator to comment the lines.Adding this(<!–) will comment the div block of site-generator.
7. save the file.

That’s it.You have changed the footer text.

In case you have trouble editing the file then download the file (The file download has been removed as there is multiple versions of theme so if you need help or file comment me). Follow below steps after downloading the file

1. Go to your WordPress installation.
2. Go to wp-content/themes/twentyten directory.
3. Upload the footer.php.zip file (downloaded file above)
4. Extract the file.You will be asked to replace existing file.Choose yes to replace existing file.
5. You have removed the text successfully.