How to Customize Copyright All Rights Reserved Statement in Footer of WordPress
Customization of Copyright All rights reserved statement is necessary as per the user requirements and the company policy. Let us learn how to do it?
Before going for any customization on your WordPress site, it is advisable to make a backup copy of your theme or even possibly the whole site itself.
It is also recommended to carry out all such customization jobs on the Child Theme only. It helps you to quickly revert back to the originals without much pain and with safety.
If you don’t know about child theme or don’t know how to create it, you are advised to go through our article, how to create a child theme for your site.
Now let us presume that when you are looking at the footer of your site (e.g. in WordPress Twenty Sixteen Theme) you find the following description.
Your Website Title Name / Proudly powered by WordPress
After customization, you may want that your footer should look something like following.
Website Title Name / Proudly powered by WordPress
Copyright © 2015-16 : YourSiteName | All rights Reserved.
So how to customize the above copyright all rights reserved statement?
Customization of Copyright All rights reserved statement
To customize it, please go to footer.php of your child theme by following cPanel > File Manager > public_html > wp-content > themes > Child Theme.
Alternatively, you can also use the site editor or the editing plugins to access the footer.php file.
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1. In footer.php file, look for the following codes.
<a href=”<?php echo esc_url( __( ‘https://wordpress.org/’, ‘twentysixteen’ ) ); ?>”><?php printf( __( ‘Proudly powered by %s’, ‘twentysixteen’ ), ‘WordPress’ ); ?></a>
</div><!– .site-info –>
2. Add just after the closing </a> the following.
<p>Copyright © 2015-16 : YourSiteName | All rights Reserved.</p>
3. Complete code should look now as follows.
<a href=”<?php echo esc_url( __( ‘https://wordpress.org/’, ‘twentysixteen’ ) ); ?>”><?php printf( __( ‘Proudly powered by %s’, ‘twentysixteen’ ), ‘WordPress’ ); ?></a><p>Copyright © 2015-16 : YourSiteName | All rights Reserved.</p>
</div><!– .site-info –>
4. Save the codes and exit out to examine your footer. Your customization job of the copyright all rights reserved statement is completed.
5. Your footer should look now as follows.
Website Title Name / Proudly powered by WordPress
Copyright © 2015-16 : YourSiteName | All rights Reserved.
6. Hope this article will help you if you have got a similar problem.
Thanks and all the Best.