How to remove "Proudly powered by WordPress?"

Create a child theme:
1. Using an FTP client (I recommend using FileZilla) create a directory under wp-content/themes/ and name it anything you like (e.g. LeonSterlingTheme)

1. Create a text file named style.css with the following content (between the ==== lines, but not including them):

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/*
Theme Name: Leon Sterling's Theme
Description: Twenty Eleven Child Theme
Author: Leon Sterling
Template: twentyeleven 

@import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");

// Theme customization starts below here

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1. Put (using FTP client) the above style.css file into the themes directory you created.

1. Download the wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/footer.php file and delete the following text from that file with a text editor (e.g. Notepad or TextEdit) and save it.

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<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' ); ?>"><?php printf( _( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentyeleven' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a>
</div>

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Upload the newly edited footer.php file to your theme’s folder.

1. From your WP Dashboard’s Appearance->Themes page, activate your child theme.

This will create a new child theme that you can use for any other modifications you would want to make to the Twenty Eleven theme.

For more details, see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Hi,

I made a child theme, deleted the div, and refreshed. But nothing happened. I also tried this: put back the code and changed the div (deleted php, added only HTML) but again: nothing happened after refreshing the page. I used F5 and tried also Ctrl+F5.

After reading this post, I tried to find the place for activating the child theme, but I can’t find it.

Can you help me please?

Thanks.

HVH,

Do you have a caching plugin activated? If so ,this would prevent the new information from being sent.

Let’s check the obvious. Don’t laugh or judge. 😉 I’ve made all of these mistakes before.
1. the child theme has been activated.
2. in the child theme you have two files (at least) including “style.css” and “footer.php”
3. the content in footer.php is what you want.
4. the files have uploaded to the server you are testing

If you’re using Jetpack as mentioned, it has a custom CSS box. Similar is found in some themes like Mantra.

If thats the case, all you need to do is add the line:

#site-generator {display: none;}

You can alternately change it to another colour, font, size or whatever with standard CSS settings in the brackets.

Similarly, if you look at the page code, you’ll find the CSS id tags for other footer elements. Use:
#tag {display: none;}

I hide them as there was no way to align the several plugins that were adding random labels there.