Title: I edited someone’s theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# I edited someone’s theme

 *  [sharkbite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharkbite/)
 * (@sharkbite)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/)
 * So being new to WordPress I thought a great way to build a site would be to download
   a theme that is similar to what I need and edit it for my purpose. It has turned
   out very good – except in the footer.php the original designed has there credit
   and link. I do not want to take anything away from them but my client does not
   want this there.
 * So the problem is I cannot edit the footer, they have somehow locked it. What
   would be the proper think for me to do here – contact the designer and ask them
   if I can remove it, or because I have changed it so much, can someone tell me
   how to remove it, or at least edit it so it is not so prominent in the design,
   maybe underneath or something.
 * Thanks.
 * [http://incite-test.byethost7.com/](http://incite-test.byethost7.com/)

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/#post-1264537)
 * Please provide a link to download the original theme.
 *  Thread Starter [sharkbite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharkbite/)
 * (@sharkbite)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/#post-1264539)
 * Sure, here it is
 * [http://www.nattywp.com/natty-wordpress-themes.php?natcat=Free](http://www.nattywp.com/natty-wordpress-themes.php?natcat=Free)
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [sharkbite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharkbite/)
 * (@sharkbite)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/#post-1264540)
 * Kind of Business is the one I used.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/#post-1264558)
 * It does say there “This theme is free to use and modify and does not include 
   any support. ” so go for it!
 *  Thread Starter [sharkbite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharkbite/)
 * (@sharkbite)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/#post-1264804)
 * I am a bit stuck, I keep getting an error message when I try to remove it, any
   ideas why or how to do this? The message is “This can’t be edited” or something
   like that.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/#post-1264809)
 * May need to [change file permissions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions)
   or use FTP to access and change that file.
 * Related:
    [Using FileZilla](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_FileZilla)
 *  Thread Starter [sharkbite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharkbite/)
 * (@sharkbite)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/#post-1264818)
 * Ach,
    I am actually working on my computer, not online, I will upload when it’s
   done, so I don’t see how the ftp would do it (am I missing something?)
 * When I try to edit the footer.php I get this message
 * This theme is released under creative commons license, all links in the footer
   should remain intact. To remove this message, please re-upload footer.php file
   of this theme again or you can buy premium version of this theme to remove links.
   If you do not have copy of this theme, you can download it from Nattywp.com.
 * I am stuck.
 *  Thread Starter [sharkbite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sharkbite/)
 * (@sharkbite)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/#post-1264837)
 * I did hear back from them and the suggestion is that I check file permissions,
   I have been searching this support site and I cannot find anything that can help
   me, any ideas?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/#post-1264848)
 * Refer to my post above: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/327476?replies=9#post-1269526](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/327476?replies=9#post-1269526)

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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-edited-someones-theme/#post-1264848)
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