To celebrate this new blog of mine, I have decided to give a quick tutorial on how to get rid of the footer that WordPress likes to add at the bottom of every page in the Twenty-Fifteen theme. You know the one – “Proudly powered by WordPress”. How do we remove that?
After searching for answers, and finding things that did not work very well (or at all), I have finally found the answer.
The easiest way to remove the Proudly hosted by WordPress footer in Twenty Fifteen is to go to your WordPress control panel, then go to plugins -> Add New -> Search for Custom CSS -> and install the one that will be by John Regan and Danny Van Kooten (as seen below).
Click Install Now, and then Activate Plugin.
Now when you go to Appearance, you will find a new option called Custom CSS. Select that and it will take you to the CSS page that is relatively blank. This page will overwrite the theme’s existing CSS (but only the ones you add).
Just click in the box and add the following on a seperate line (after the first line):
.site-info {
display:none;
}
It should look like below:
Just remember to click Update Custom CSS before visiting your site again. The changes should take effect immediately, but if the footer is still there then clear your browser’s cookies and cache (or simply visit the page in another browser). For whatever reason, it took about a minute of refreshing before I saw the change.
I can’t promise this will work in every theme though but I hope it helps beginners like myself who wish to get rid of the footer. If anyone has a better way, I would love to hear it in the comments below!
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