In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to remove attribution footer link in WordPress Thesis Theme. Thesis Theme is a well design premium WordPress theme. I’ve used it in this blog since day one. This is very simple tutorial to follow, I promise.
Who Can Remove The Attribution Link?
Be careful, only those people who purchase ‘developer license’ or ‘developer option’ is allowed to remove the footer link. If not you’re breaking membership agreement.
Step By Step Guide To Remove Footer Link
The attribution or the footer link function is called thesis_attribution() and is located in the file thesislibhtmlfooter.php. But wait, we’re not going to modify this file. Instead I’m going to show you another option which is a better one.
# Step 1: Open custom_functions.php
You can open the custom_functions.php file using any text editor. The file is located at thesiscustom folder. This file is specially created by Thesis Theme author for you to customize the theme easily using hook without modifying core engine or file.
# Step 2: Remove Attribution Action
Add the following 1 line of code below “<?php” in the file. After that save the file. This code is pretty self-explanatory. What is does is removing hook function thesis_attribution from the thesis_hook_footer section.
remove_action('thesis_hook_footer', 'thesis_attribution');# Step 3: Upload custom_functions.php
Finally upload custom_functions.php to your web server. Now type in the URL in your browser and you should be able to see the link is disappeared.
Conclusion
Of course this method is not perfect for those people who don’t know coding or don’t know to touch the code. Anybody interested if you can’t disable the link using WordPress plugin?
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this has been an incredible help to a “non-developer”. thank you!
@yogadork,
You’re welcome. If you need any technical help, you can always contact me using the contact form.
Help I am trying to put up my first blog and I want the attribution hook for Thesis removed. I tried your directions. No luck. . .
Pasted below is the php page.
thanks.
<a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://delicious.com/save?url=&title=” onclick=”window.open(‘http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url=&title=’, ‘delicious’, ‘toolbar=no,width=550,height=550′); return false;” title=”Bookmark this post on del.icio.us”>Bookmark this article on Delicious
<?php
remove_action(‘thesis_hook_footer’, ‘thesis_attribution’);
}
@Stuart,
You can try to move “remove_action” code before “a rel=’nofollow’”. Please let me know if it is resolved.
Thanks, needed this.
Thanks
I totally needed this on one of the sites I’m working on.
I’m a ‘fake it til I make it’ kinda web ‘developer’. I know *just* enough to be ‘dangerous’
it’s posts like this that make me less so.
By the way, I know your layout is simple and clean but you have a great looking blog. I think I need to subscribe if I’m going to keep plugging away at thesis.
many thanks,
chris
Its really impressive and useful thanks for sharing useful knowledge.
Awesome, thanks. Will give you some props from one of my sites.
Tim
Hi Bey,
I followed your instruction on removing the footer attribution link but its not working. Any other tips that you could share?
Thanks!
Luanne
Great Tip thanks. I have just purchased Thesis and and am looking to blog with it on 2 or 3 web hosts.
I don’t know php but can do a bit of html that said the way you have laid this out is easy to understand and only the very newest novice won’t understand it.
thanks for the wonderful tips, i really need this to remove my blog’s footer link!
Great – thanks for your help!
I have the developer’s licence but this didn’t work for me. You seem very knowledgeable on the subject – is there another way to remove the Thesis attribution from the footer?
custom_functions.php
didn’t work. tried it at the
top
<?php
remove_action(‘thesis_hook_footer’, ‘thesis_attribution’);
// Using hooks is absolutely
bottom
<?php
remove_action(‘thesis_hook_footer’, ‘thesis_attribution’);
}
and before
remove_action(‘thesis_hook_footer’, ‘thesis_attribution’);
<a rel=”nofollow” href=”
no change
….
Also anyone know how to get rid of the “How Smart Is your Theme” thesis-125×125-1 ad?
thanks
This is a bit off topic, but – as I understand it, the Thesis developers don’t have any legal basis to require people who purchased the non-developer version to leave the attribution link in (because of the way wordpress itself is licensed). In fact, i’ts pretty arrogant of them to claim they can.
Normally I’d say that ethically, you’d be better off leaving the footer link in to help support the developers. In this case, I say remove it.
I wonder if some of the problems are being caused by the users ADDING the <?php code.
At the top of the custom_functions.php file, you should already see <?php. You can add the custom code directly below that line.
The first two lines of the custom_functions.php file would then read:
<?php
remove_action(‘thesis_hook_footer’, ‘thesis_attribution’);
I hope this helps.
Thanks man for the info!
Got it working in the very first try!
@Shahab,
Good to hear that!
I installed the code right from my admin section on my word press blog, It only took about 3 seconds and worked on the first try.
Thanks a lot, Love your site
@Roonie,
Great to hear it works for you. Hope you enjoy Thesis Theme.
Thanks. This worked like a charm on my new blog with Thesis theme. I’ll be adding the copyright notice using your instructions from another post too.
I just followed these instructions and it worked perfectly to remove the “Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme from DIYthemes.” part of the footer. Another related question, the link to ‘WordPress Admin’ which links to wp-admin still remains in the footer. How can I get rid of that link as well? Sorry, I’m very new to this WordPress stuff. Thanks.
i have been trying to figure out thesis for awhile now since i bought it. i landed on your site in a google search and its the only one yet that’s made clear common sense to someone who doesn’t know much about web design/scripts and codes, etc.
thanks for an awesome site and concise directions for everyday people!
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