Title: Footer editing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Footer editing

 *  [williamkwatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/williamkwatt/)
 * (@williamkwatt)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-editing/)
 * Whoever can help me I thank you in advanced. I have been trying to edit the text
   in the footer of my website but it has been to no avail. I went in to appearance
   >editor>Footer.php and I deleted the part that I did not want to appear in my
   website which was “Powered by WordPress. Designed by WildWeblab.” After I deleted
   it, when I click to visit my site, it looks exactly how I want it to look, however
   when I logout, it goes back to showing the text, and it looks like I didn’t do
   anything to the site. I have tried clearing the cache, but it has done nothing.
   I am not that familiar with PHP so it is definitely possible that I did something
   incorrectly. If someone could help it would be greatly appreciated. The theme
   that I have is “Icy” by WildWebLab

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-editing/#post-4368176)
 * First, you should not be modifying theme files as your changes will be lost when
   the theme is updated. Use a child theme –
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * That said, do you have a caching plugin or server caching on your site? Try clearing
   that and also clearing your browser cache.
 * For additional help, please post on the theme’s forum and include a link to your
   site.
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/theme/icy](http://wordpress.org/support/theme/icy)
 *  Thread Starter [williamkwatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/williamkwatt/)
 * (@williamkwatt)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-editing/#post-4368218)
 * Thank you for your help thus far, I will do that!

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## Tags

 * [editing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editing/)
 * [footer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/footer/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [williamkwatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/williamkwatt/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-editing/#post-4368218)
 * Status: not resolved

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