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Plugin info

Total downloads: 1,168,145
Active installs: 80,000
Total reviews: 87
Average rating: 4.7
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 15 language(s)
Contributors: 3
Last updated: 10/21/2025 (71 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 8/27/2016 (9 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.9
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.1

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 71 days ago • 87 reviews

65/100

Is Remove Footer Credit abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 71 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.1

Ratings

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Developers

WP Chill (Owner)36Silkalns37WP Chill3

Languages

Spanish (Spain)32,360Dutch30,206Russian27,196French (France)20,849Spanish (Venezuela)17,048Swedish14,890Spanish (Colombia)13,464Spanish (Mexico)13,287Spanish (Ecuador)11,738Dutch (Formal)11,736Dutch (Belgium)10,363English (UK)9,973Spanish (Chile)8,024Chinese (Taiwan)6,927

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Description

Remove or replace footer credits (or any text or HTML in page) before page is rendered. With this plugin there is no need to modify code such as footer.php which if done incorrectly can cause your site to break or new theme updates will stomp over your changes requiring you to remove footer credits on each update.

This plugin has very minimal options to keep things simple and easier to use. You enter the text or HTML that you would like to find in one text box and the text or HTML that you would like to replace in another text box (or nothing to remove). Go here to view my step by step tutorial with screenshots and video.

Installation

  1. From WordPress Admin, go to Plugins -> Add New
  2. Search for plugin “Remove Footer Credit”
  3. Install and Activate
  4. Go to Tools -> Remove Footer Credit
  5. Enter text you would like to change in first text box
  6. Enter text you would like to replace in second text box
  7. Click Save

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin?

Please report security bugs found in the source code of the Remove Footer Credit plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.”

Review feed

idowebwork
8/4/2021

Seems to Do Nothing

It seems to work, but not as intuitive as it should be. You need to copy the code that makes up the footer porting you wish to move and paste that into the box. Wish there as a way to simply way to remove it.

Screenshots

  1. Remove footer credit

    Remove footer credit

Changelog

1.0.15 – 17.04.2025

Fixed: Load texdomain just in time.

1.0.14 – 21.03.2024

Fixed: Security issue

1.0.13 – 24.02.2022

Fixed: Replaceable text new line bug

1.0.12 – 25.01.2022

Fixed: Sanitization for replaceable and replacement text

1.0.11 – 11.01.2022

Added: Sanitization and escapes

1.0.10 – 20.07.2021

Fixes: PHP error
Fixes: replace string with html entities and without

1.0.9 – 16.07.2021

Fixes: Adding replace string at bottom of the site.

1.0.8 – 13.07.2021

Fixed: Plugin not replacing credits.

1.0.7 – 05.07.2021

Changed: Updated security fixes for XSS

1.0.6 – 24.06.2021

Fixed: Security issue regarding XSS

1.0.5

  • update translation file

1.0.4

  • minor textdomain update
  • version bump
  • translation ready

1.0.3

  • minor tweak & version bump

1.0

  • Initial release.
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