Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Hi @ndudding, I’ve just looked into how you could change the copyright information and it doesn’t look possible.
Usually themes provide a way of overriding a function, but there doesn’t appear to be a way to override the ‘great_wp_footer’ funtion that lives in template-tags.php.
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Oh wait, you can just copy the ‘footer.php’ file into your Child Theme folder and replace all of the code with this:
<?php
/**
* The template for displaying the footer.
*
* @package Great
*/
?>
<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>
I think that should work
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
It’s doable but the solution is inelegant. There’s probably an better way to do this, but this works.
First make and activate a child theme.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
I created one in /themes/great-child and put these 3 files there.
style.css
/*
Theme Name: Great Child Theme
Description: Child theme for the Great theme
Version: 0.1
Template: great
*/
functions.php is too much to paste here, use this link instead.
http://pastebin.com/TB8DuZRw
footer.php
<?php
great_child_wp_footer(); wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>
The footer.php file is a copy of the original great/footer.php file with one difference: the file calls great_child_wp_footer() and not great_wp_footer().
That functions.php file has a duplicate of the parent theme’s function but it has a different name and incorporates the footer changes you want.
This is a bit of bummer for Ben to get no credit for his theme, and makes it look like the OP is taking all the credit.
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
I would recommend the author looks at other, less invasive ways to receive credit.
I had changed it, but after Ben was very helpful with a question I had, I decided to leave his name on the bottom.
Hi all,
To replace theme text in a more proper way it is sufficient to add this function to functions.php of a child theme:
<?php
function set_theme_text(){
//rewrite text of the function called "great_site_contact" located in inc/extras.php
set_theme_mod ( 'mail', 'new email@gmail.com' );
set_theme_mod( 'adress', '' );
set_theme_mod( 'phone', '+216 000 000' );
set_theme_mod( 'mail_url' );
set_theme_mod( 'phone_url' );
//rewrite text of the function called "great_footer_quote" located in inc/extras.php
set_theme_mod('footer_quote', '');
set_theme_mod( 'footer_author', 'new author name');
set_theme_mod( 'footer_link', esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ) );
set_theme_mod( 'footer_linktext', __('Read more...', 'great') );
}
?>
then, call it from the copy of footer.php just before calling the differents footers:
<?php
/**
* The template for displaying the footer.
*
* @package Great
*/
// Theme Footer Copyright Info-Text
set_theme_text();
echo great_copyright_infotext();great_wp_footer();wp_footer(); ?></body></html>
If you would to hide a given text leave it blank.
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Hi @mohamed.belhassen, this thread is 6 months old and references an older version of the theme; version 0.9. In the original template-tag.php file, there wasn’t a theme setting that you could utilise because the signature was outputted from a string (inside of printf):
<?php printf(__('Author: %s', 'great' ), 'Ben Alvele, <strong><a target="_self" href="http://alvele.com/">alvele.com</a></strong>' ); ?>
In the new version, 0.13, the theme signature is instead added into the source code of each page.
This is in functions.php:
/**
* Footer Copyright
*/
function great_copyright_infotext () {
return "<!-- Powered by WordPress & Author: Ben Alvele, alvele.com & Active theme Great -->";
}
This is in footer.php:
echo great_copyright_infotext();great_wp_footer();wp_footer(); ?></body>
Hope that helps explain why your technique won’t work for the signature.
Hello
@riley.keller [ Have tried changing the footer notes but cant seem to get it right! How did you solve it?
Hey @ichiex517,
As per forum welcome, you’re required to create your own thread instead of posting in a 9 months old thread. Hope you understand.
