Title: Editing the Footer using Functions.php
Last modified: May 9, 2020

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# Editing the Footer using Functions.php

 *  [Antscran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antscran/)
 * (@antscran)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-the-footer-using-functions-php/)
 * Hi all,
 * Not posted on here for sometime and recently updated my site from TwentyTwelve
   to TwentyFourteen.
 * I am using a basic child theme and wanted to slightly tweak the “Proudly powered
   by WordPress” link at the bottom and also add a small dynamic copyright notice.
   I would ideally like to add this all to the child themes functions.php as like
   to keep my site upto date.
 * So basically looking for something like below:
 * **Powered by WordPress
    © 2020 – Coder-Tronics
 * I was playing around with this code but couldn’t get it to display anything yet
 *     ```
        * Change Footer Coipyright Message
        */
       add_action('wp_footer', 'footer_copyright');
       function footer_copyright() {
         echo '<div class="site-info"><p>This is inserted at the bottom</p></div>';
   
       }
       ```
   
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   to see the link]_

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 *  [Etienne ROSENSTIEHL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etienne-r-2/)
 * (@etienne-r-2)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-the-footer-using-functions-php/#post-12807447)
 * Hi Antscran,
    You can try the plugin remove footer credit. It is easy and you
   don’t need any code.
 * Good luck
    Etienne
 *  Thread Starter [Antscran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antscran/)
 * (@antscran)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-the-footer-using-functions-php/#post-12807893)
 * Hi Etienne,
 * I would rather avoid plugins if possible, will keep researching the code and 
   should figure it out eventually pending any further advice on here.
 * Cheers,
 * Ant
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-the-footer-using-functions-php/#post-12808247)
 * your inserted stuff is there – just white-on-white in the white bar at the bottom.
 * consider to use a different action hook, such as the one used in the footer.php
   of Twenty Fourteen:
 * `<?php do_action( 'twentyfourteen_credits' ); ?>`
 * and if you need to, hide the existing ‘Proudly powered by WordPress’ using CSS:
 * `.site-info .imprint { display: none; }`
 *  Thread Starter [Antscran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antscran/)
 * (@antscran)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-the-footer-using-functions-php/#post-12810542)
 * Hi Michael,
 * Thanks that gave me confidence some of my code worked atleast.
 * I ended up reading a little more on child themes as been a awhile. Anyway settled
   on copy pasting the TwentyFourteen footer.php over to my child theme and making
   some minor edits and adding the following code snippet below which achieved what
   I wanted pretty much.
 *     ```
       		<div id="copy-right">
       		<p>&copy; <?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?=date('Y');?>  - All Rights Reserved</p>
       		</div>
       ```
   
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by [Antscran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antscran/).
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by [Antscran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antscran/).

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 * Last reply from: [Antscran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antscran/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-the-footer-using-functions-php/#post-12810542)
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