How To Remove Encrypted Footer Links From WordPress Themes
Throughout
this method of Encrypted Footer links from WordPress themes we are assuming
that you have installed the theme on your blog. You can follow these directions
prior to uploading the theme as well.
An
encrypted footer looks like this. It is generally very hard to decode.
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Here
are the steps that you need to follow:
First
of all you need to navigate to the theme editor on your control panel. It is
located under the Design menu. Once you are there follow these steps.
Find
the index.php file. Click on it to
open it.
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Now
you need to find the footer include code. In most of the cases the code would
look like this
<?php
get_footer(); ?>
and
would be at the end of index.php file.
If
you are finding it hard to locate use Ctrl +F in your browser and paste the
above code there. The browser will do it for you.
Now
we need to add two simple codes one on the top and another on the bottom of
the footer include code. These codes mean nothing but they will indicate
to us the start and the end of the footer. Adding these two codes will not make
any difference in the functioning of the theme.
These
codes are:
<!--Our
dear footer starts here-->
&
<!--
Our dear footer ends here -->
You
can write anything you want between
<!– and–>
Now
our code would look something like this.
<!--Our
dear footer starts here-->
<?php
get_footer(); ?>
<!--Our
dear footer ends here
-->
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Update the index.php file
Now
open your site in the browser and view the page source. In most of the
browsers you can view the page source by right clicking on the mouse and then
selecting view source. In Mozilla the shortcut Ctrl + U works great.
In
the source code you have to find the code that you have added at the top of
the original code. You can safely scroll all the way down to the bottom to
find these codes.
Copy
all the code that is between the codes that you have added. This is the actual
footer code.
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Copy
this code and replace the original footer code (encrypted one) with this
particular code. Now you can change the
footer the way you like. 
Though
you can remove all the links using this method, it is our request that you link
to the original designer of the theme.
