Title: Footer Changes – Request
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Footer Changes – Request

 *  [stevenbill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenbill/)
 * (@stevenbill)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-changes-request/)
 * Hi Folks,
    I want to edit the Footer info and I’ve done some reading on the thread
   and can’t seem to figure out what I’m doing wrong. I’ve never created a child
   theme so I suspect it has something to do with this. Let me explain what I’ve
   done:
 * 1. Created a directory called: attitude-child in my themes subfolder.
    2. Created
   a style.css and pasted this in it:
 *     ```
       /*
       Theme Name: Attitude Child Theme
       Author: Self-Help WordPress User
       Template: attitude
       */
   
       @import url("../attitude/style.css");
       ```
   
 * 3. Created a functions.php and pasted this in it:
 *     ```
       <?php
   
       // Remove old copyright text
       add_action( 'init' , 'mh_remove_copy' , 15 );
       function mh_remove_copy() {
               remove_action( 'attitude_footer', 'attitude_footer_info', 30 );
       }
   
       // Add my own copyright text
       add_action( 'attitude_footer' , 'mh_footer_info' , 30 );
       function mh_footer_info() {
          $output = '<div class="copyright">'.'Copyright © [the-year] [site-link] Maintained by: <a href="http://www.basicwebdeveloping.com">Basic Web Developing</a> Tel: +44 (0)20 7630 9271 <br />
       Source theme: <a href="http://themehorse.com" target=blank>Theme Horse</a>.'.'</div><!-- .copyright -->';
          echo do_shortcode( $output );
       }
       ```
   
 * And then I saved it all. And I see that nothing has changed. I think I’m missing
   some silly step here but any help on this would be appreciated. You can check
   out the site at [http://www.fredericksagency.com](http://www.fredericksagency.com)
 * Thanks for any help!
    Steve

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 *  [Miss_Daisy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miss_daisy/)
 * (@miss_daisy)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-changes-request/#post-3769980)
 * Hi Steven, I’v also just done this on the site I was working on.
    [http://www.vxpharma.com/dev/](http://www.vxpharma.com/dev/)
   It worked fine for me. Did you activate your child theme?
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-changes-request/#post-3769983)
 * You need to activate the child theme on your site – it’s not currently.
 *  Thread Starter [stevenbill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenbill/)
 * (@stevenbill)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-changes-request/#post-3769991)
 * Ah yes, activate the theme! Duh. I’m confused as to how the child theme when 
   activated is able to apply all the files from the parent theme despite it not
   being activated.
 * Regardless, it worked. So thanks for this!
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-changes-request/#post-3769997)
 * The [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) line brings in all
   the parent styles – it can read in a file without that theme being “active” –
   those styles become “active” when the page is loaded in a browser…
 *  Thread Starter [stevenbill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenbill/)
 * (@stevenbill)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-changes-request/#post-3770124)
 * Great, thanks WPyogi!
 *  [nanamarti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nanamarti/)
 * (@nanamarti)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-changes-request/#post-3770152)
 * How do I make the text after copyright smaller. what code shall I use? thanks.

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