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Change the Footer in Your WordPress Admin Panel

Last updated on September 11th, 2015 by Editorial Staff
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Change the Footer in Your WordPress Admin Panel

There are times when you want others to know that you designed the specific WordPress theme. So you would put a credential link in the WordPress footer. But if you want to take it even further, you can modify the WordPress Admin panel footer. This simple hack is an extra perk that theme designers can add for their clients or in their free themes (like many plugin authors do).

This is how the default footer in WordPress admin area looks like:

Default footer in WordPress admin area

This can be changed and you can add some useful links to be displayed in footer.

To accomplish this trick, simply open your theme’s functions.php file and paste the following code:

function remove_footer_admin () {

echo 'Fueled by <a href="http://www.wordpress.org" target="_blank">WordPress</a> | Designed by <a href="http://www.uzzz.net" target="_blank">Uzzz Productions</a> | WordPress Tutorials: <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com" target="_blank">WPBeginner</a></p>';

}

add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'remove_footer_admin');

You will need to edit the code to echo your own links or anything that you want to add here.

We always leave credit for WordPress, no matter how customize our admin panel is it wasn’t possible without WordPress. You should follow the same practice to increase awareness about WordPress.

Here is how the end result would look like:

Custom WordPress admin area footer

We hope this article helped you changed the footer in WordPress admin area. You may also want to see our guide on how to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin with Adminimize

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  1. Selam Mesfin says:
    Sep 7, 2018 at 5:05 am

    In my visual Editor’s toolbar, there is no ‘Insert new tag’ button, how can this be fixed? I wanted to include ‘read more’ to my long paragraphs.

    Thank You.

    Reply
  2. parul gupta says:
    Aug 9, 2017 at 6:31 am

    i want to change footer credentials in quest theme.please help me out.

    Reply
  3. Schofield Bryant says:
    Mar 23, 2017 at 9:33 am

    I just tried what was explained above and my website has crashed.
    Showing the following error
    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare remove_footer_admin() (previously declared in /home/cannabotanica/public_html/wp-content/themes/green-eye/functions.php:4) in /home/cannabotanica/public_html/wp-content/themes/green-eye/functions.php on line 208

    Please I need assistance now in reviving the website and correcting the error. Even the admin panel wouldn’t load.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 23, 2017 at 11:46 pm

      Hi Schofield,

      You can remove the code using FTP or File Manager in cPanel.

      Reply
  4. Wayne says:
    Jan 16, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    How do I find the functions.php file in the Colormag theme?

    Reply
  5. Arun says:
    Oct 27, 2016 at 7:29 am

    Hello How I can adjust the bottom of my wordpress made website ???

    Reply
  6. mohammad says:
    Feb 6, 2016 at 11:27 pm

    i want custom footer without plugin and admin change footer !

    Reply
  7. balbeer says:
    Jul 14, 2015 at 7:52 am

    i am not able to edit the footer that is copyright @ in travelify theme please help to edit that

    Reply
    • Tommy says:
      Sep 22, 2015 at 1:14 pm

      Try use plugin “Cliro – Custom Admin Role for Client” you will easy to edit footer in backend with more option. I used it and very happy :)

      Reply
  8. ansuman says:
    Jan 30, 2015 at 2:11 am

    how to edit copyright footer

    Reply
  9. Samuel Dellicour says:
    Jun 14, 2013 at 4:45 am

    The closing P tag should be removed, it is not necessary. The text will automatically be wrapped with a paragraph (with class and id).

    Reply
  10. Durrell Thomas says:
    Mar 2, 2011 at 10:33 pm

    What is the name of the plug-in “what next | Related Posts that is on your blog?

    Reply
    • Editorial Staff says:
      Mar 2, 2011 at 10:50 pm

      It’s not custom coded (combination of YARRP and html/css codes)

      Reply
  11. Ash Blue says:
    Mar 17, 2010 at 1:17 pm

    This rocks my socks, I love being able to edit the WP admin screen. Will there be tutorials here soon for WP 3.0?

    Reply
  12. Konstantin says:
    Feb 19, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    Unfortunately you neglected to mention to hook it to the “admin_footer_text” filter. This is what’s missing:

    add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'remove_footer_admin');

    Reply
    • Editorial Staff says:
      Feb 19, 2010 at 10:09 pm

      Thanks for notifying us. We are really sorry, this mistake was on our end.

      Reply
  13. Nina says:
    Feb 19, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    Great tutorial, will use ;)

    Reply

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