How to Remove Footer Links in WordPress

Many WordPress Themes have signature link/s on their Design. Signature link is included within the design itself to acknowledge the designer of the template and to protect from copyright and piracy issues that may arise. Most signature link/s can be found at the bottom of the Blog or website in order not to annoy Visitors of the site that uses the Template.

The basic problem of a Worpress Theme User is the Design itself. Most Users want to Personalize their Blog to be Unique from other Blogs. One factor to be Unique is by removing the designers signature on the footer. This makes an impression of a professional Design.

Removing Links on a footer or modifying the design is against the right of the designer provided that the designers allow it. Either way this what most users do.

Ways how to remove footer on a WordPress Blog

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How to Upgrade or Update WordPress

I assume you already installed WordPress as your Blogging platform and you are ready to update its core.

Upgrading WordPress is very easy. If your Hosting Company Installed SimpleScript software on your your server. Just follow the security notification when you logged-in to your Cpanel account.

simplescript notification How to Upgrade or Update Wordpress

Just click the view all updates and Update the Old WordPress Installation.

simple script worpress upgrade How to Upgrade or Update Wordpress

Another common thing to do when you don’t have a Simplescript Software on your server is by logging in to your WordPress Blog and follow the notification above your dashboard. (example: I’ll be updating my 2.9.2 installation to 3.0)

above your dashboard you will see something just like this.

wordpress update notification How to Upgrade or Update Wordpress

click grade automatically

note: if you have a big files and database be sure to back it up to prevent loss of data.

wordpress upgrade How to Upgrade or Update Wordpress

wait untill the word “WordPress upgraded successfully” shows after the intallation.

wordpress upgrade success How to Upgrade or Update Wordpress

thats it! If you follow it correctly.

Their are some cases that you can’t upgrade wordpress easily. Ill be covering that in my next article. thanks

How to Encrypt your WordPress Footer Links

Most WordPress users online who search for Theme Designs for their Blog/s don’t want to have annoying links within the footer of their chosen Theme or Template. Most template users especially the People who are familiar to HTML Programming usually edit the footer.php and replace or remove the original links placed by the Author of that Template or Theme.

To stop someone from claiming YOUR work as their own, certain measures must be applied. One of the best method is to encrypt the footer links to avoid someone from manipulating your Theme. Encrypting the Footer links have many advantages in favor of the Creator of the Template. It ensures the credit link is intact, thus, increasing the Link Popularity and gain some Backlinks from the Users of the Theme.

Learn the Basics of Encrypting Footer Links

Their are many ways How to protect your Footer Links and remain intact,

One of the easiest way is to use a base64 Decoder and Encoder. This is my personal favorite strategy to get rid out of newbies who try to change our credit links to one of our WordPress Template Design.

For example, the Base64 representation of  “http://wpbulletin.com/” is “aHR0cDovL3dwYnVsbGV0aW4uY29tLw==”.

base64 How to Encrypt your Wordpress Footer Links

More often this method is easy to decode but sufficient enough to annoy someone who does not know programing languages.

You can use these free tools online while its free:

http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp
http://www.freephpencoder.com/
http://www.byterun.com/free-php-encoder.php

If you are serious to Protect and License your PHP scripts and Website, use IonCube PHP Encoder.

To evaluate their Software for free. Go to
http://www.ioncube.com/encoder_eval_download.php

Simple Ways How to Open Link in New Window or Tab

Here are the simple HTML codes how to open link in new window or Tab

  • Open in a new tab or window:

<a href=”LINK_URL” target=”_blank”>KEYWORD</a>

- Notes: Adding a target=”_blank” to the Link URL will enable the link to open in a new tab or window depending on the link setting of your Internet browser that you are using. If you are creating a link on your page that will redirect to another domain different from your IP address, use the html code above.

But you if you are only linking to another page within your domain, use the basic link type, <a href=”LINK_URL”>KEYWORD</a>, because you want to give credit to your other page and you like to look your site natural.

  • Open in a new tab or window with “no follow” attribute:

<a href=”LINK_URL” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>KEYWORD</a>

-Notes: With the combination of target=”_blank” and rel=”nofollow” to the Link URL will enable the link to open in a new tab or window without giving a vote to the “Link_URL”. rel=”nofollow” was introduced to combat Search Engine Spammers that once upon a time manipulated the Search Engine results. If you are linking to a page that is not relevant to your Theme of Interest, use this HTML code to prevent you giving a search engine vote to the “Link_URL” that sometimes considered it as a spam because the “Link URL” only objective is to have a back link on your page and does not give any relevancy to the topic.

If you are linking to a relevant site, use the code <a href=”LINK_URL” target=”_blank”>KEYWORD</a> as mentioned before to give the “Link_URL” more Exposure and Authority because of relevancy and the contents might be the solution to people with similar Problems.

Terms: “Link_URL” or Link URL refers to the destination Url when you click the link

( Replace Link_URL with your own URL and KEYWORD with your own Anchor text )

Conclusion:

Implementing Link to Open in a New Window or Tab will help you improve Readership on Website and Forcing your Web page Bounce Rate to go down because Visitors might be visiting your other page instead of leaving your site.


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