How To Change Your Footer Text – WordPress Plugin

If you are using a StudioPress theme, unless someone has tweaked it already, your footer probably looks something like this, which is the default footer for the News Theme.

Changing this is pretty easy. Here’s how!

How to do it

Surf to Dashboard / Plugins / Add New

Search for ‘Genesis Simple Hooks’ By Nathan Rice.

Install and activate the plugin.

Now, surf to Dashboard / Genesis / Simple Hooks.

Scroll all the way down and find genesis_footer Hook which is the second to last hook.

It looks like this …

What you need to do is add some code there. Copy the code below and paste it into a “plain text editor” like Note Pad. Modify ONLY the red parts. Then, paste it into the genesis_footer Hook window.

 

<div>
    <p><a href=”#wrap” rel=”nofollow”>Return to top of page</a></p>
</div>
<div>
   

Copyright © php echo date(‘Y’); ?> ·

http://synapticsystems.com” title=”Synaptic Systems Inc.“>Synaptic Systems Inc. &middot;

 

</div>

 

Place a check mark next to the following options.

• Unhook genesis_do_footer() function from this hook?
• Execute Shortcodes on this hook?
• Execute PHP on this hook?

It should look now like this …

Click “Save Changes”

Your footer will now look like this …

 

Notes:

Genesis Simple Hooks is a VERY powerful plugin. Unless you know what you are doing, leave the other options alone for now. We’ll be doing other things with this plugin in upcoming articles 🙂