Adding Copyright to Footer

The source code has been encrypted which means it would have to be decoded to be changed or altered. You don’t give the URL of your website but presumably the developer has added credits they did not want altered or removed.

The best strategy may be to create your own footer.php file to replace the encrypted version above, rather than attempting to decode the encrypted text.

Hey, no problems, you can get a long way by looking at the source code of the page which pretty much decodes the footer.php file for you, then you just have to add the WordPress specific stuff around that giving you something like the source code below (which may need adjusting according to the version of WP and the theme that you use):

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying the footer.
 *
 * Contains the closing of the id=main div and all content
 * after.  Calls sidebar-footer.php for bottom widgets.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Ten
 * @since Twenty Ten 1.0
 */
?>
	</div><!-- #main -->

<div id="footer">
<p>The Great Oceans is proudly powered by <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress">WordPress</a> and <a href="http://www.wpdesigner.com" title="WordPress Themes">WPDesigner</a>., <a href='http://w3il.com/url/thegreatoceans.com/' title='www.thegreatoceans.com'>thegreatoceans.com</a></p>

</div><!-- #footer -->

</div><!-- #wrapper -->

<?php
	/* Always have wp_footer() just before the closing </body>
	 * tag of your theme, or you will break many plugins, which
	 * generally use this hook to reference JavaScript files.
	 */

	wp_footer();
?>
</body>
</html>

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-decrypt-an-encoded-theme?replies=3

I would try to decode the footer.php. I can’t help you currently, I am at work and don’t have any tools available.

Reason being, your output above hints that your footer.php controls a widget area, but the code is missing. I presume because you are not using the widget area. So if we try to use the browser output above, we may break your theme, but will certainly lose functionality

yeah, the link I gave may help you decode it yourself. If not, there is always a request thread in the themes section here where volunteers decode for you, you could also post there while you work at it

Calls sidebar-footer.php for bottom widgets.

this line here is what worried me. There is obviously some important code missing from the browser output to handle the widgets and stuff. Not including that would definitely jack some things up……

also some other php code like where it says The Great Oceans is proudly is probably <?php bloginfo('name'); ?> is proudly... etc….