Title: Create a hook
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Create a hook

 *  [hardcab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hardcab/)
 * (@hardcab)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-hook-1/)
 * Hi guys, I am using the church theme which is a child of omega. I would like 
   to change the footer like I have with other themes.
 * However, church does not use footer.php as most other themes do, it actually 
   uses hooks.php in the parent lib directory.
 * I have tried and cannot get it to work. I am trying to create a hook in functions.
   php or even a plugin that will override the default footer text from the hooks.
   php to my text and not get changed back when there is an update.
 * The original code in the hooks.php file is:
 *     ```
       /**
        * default footer insert filter
        */
       function omega_default_footer_insert( $settings ) {
   
       	/* If there is a child theme active, use [child-link] shortcode to the $footer_insert. */
       	return '<p class="copyright">' . __( 'Copyright © [the-year] [site-link].', 'omega' ) . '</p>' . "\n\n" . '<p class="credit">' . __( 'Theme by [author-uri].', 'omega' ) . '</p>';	
   
       }
   
       /**
       ```
   
 * I want to create a hook that will replace that code with this:
 *     ```
       /**
        * default footer insert filter
        */
       function omega_default_footer_insert( $settings ) {
   
       	/* If there is a child theme active, use [child-link] shortcode to the $footer_insert. */
       return '<p class="copyright">' . __( 'Copyright © [the-year] [site-link] All Rights Reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced without express consent of [site-link].
       <br>[site-link] is an affiliate of FFCF Ltd', 'omega' ) . '</p>'; 	
   
       }
   
       /**
       ```
   
 * If it helps the directory for the original file is /wp/wp-content/themes/omega/
   lib/hooks.php and the child theme is /wp/wp-content/themes/church/
 * At the moment if there is an update I just change the code in the hooks.php manually,
   however, I would like to set it as permanent

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 *  Thread Starter [hardcab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hardcab/)
 * (@hardcab)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-hook-1/#post-5149408)
 * I would have thought I would get some sort of reply after 4 days

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