Title: Footer links causing errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Footer links causing errors

 *  [spyce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spyce/)
 * (@spyce)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-links-causing-errors/)
 * I have been playing with the code to my wordpress theme, and at the bottom there
   are links with who designed the template, software (c) wordpress.org and a link
   to my site. I took out the link to my site because the size of the link was huge
   and just didn’t fit with the flow of the site. I also centered the other links.
   That’s it.
 * Now when I go to view my page, or even try to make new edits, I get the following
   error: “This theme is released under creative commons licence, all links in the
   footer should remain intact”.
 * The links are all still in tact. I even went to the raw PHP file (which I have
   stored here on my pc) and tried to cut and paste the original code back in, so
   it looks exactly as it did before I touched anything. still, I get the same “
   This theme is released under creative commons licence, all links in the footer
   should remain intact” error.
 * If the code is back to the way it was… why am I still receiving this error?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-links-causing-errors/#post-1621703)
 * because crappy theme authors are paranoid you might remove their google juice
 * look in the theme’s `functions.php` file for `eval`– or obfuscated code
    copy
   and paste that code at pastebin.com and come back here with the link
 * edit – nver mind James got it
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-links-causing-errors/#post-1621704)
 * In the mean time, to restore your blog, you’ll have to access your server via
   [FTP or SFTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients), navigate to `/wp-content/
   themes/` and rename everything **except** the `/twentyten/` directory. This will
   force the Twenty Ten theme to activate.
 *  [Henrychester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henrychester/)
 * (@henrychester)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-links-causing-errors/#post-1622053)
 * Hi James
 * You have forgot to add to reinstall the theme 🙂 otherwise if you rename the 
   template directory files it will give an empty website.
 * Hope this one help!
 * Henry

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Henrychester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henrychester/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/footer-links-causing-errors/#post-1622053)
 * Status: not resolved

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