Remove Encrypted Footer Links From Templates Filed under ( Coding Tricks )

Here in this post, I will be telling you how to get rid of the footer links you often find in different themes and templates. Actually I came to know about it just few days ago when I was trying to build a blog using wordpress.
As you all know, the theme maker (or the author) releases the template with his links containing in it. It is obvious that he wants to get his profit through it. But what happens to the users is they don't like to keep them on their site. There may be many reasons that why you don't keep the footer links of the author of the theme, like you may be thinking that you theme may look unsuitable due to it. Or also you may think that why to keep unnecessary link. Further more, if you are really thinking about your sites ranking in search engines like google, the you may also want to remove all the inactive and unnecessary links which may decrease your site's ranking.

Well, whatever is the reason you want to get rid of it, just you do. But as you also know that those theme are generally released with GNU/GPL Licence, so actually this work is not considered as a good or legal process to do. So, personally I want to say you that please keep at least one link to the author sites so that the author is rewarded for his work.

Actually, removing links of the footer are not generally a problem, but sometimes it comes in a face of problem. What it means that, you might have seen footer links engraved with the theme you are going to use. So what are you gonna do?

Such things are generally encrypted with the template, can not be removed by the normal process. Actually guys, such encrypted footer links are not so easy to remove. But don't worry, I have got a trick to get rid of it, in a very few steps.


Simply, just go to the footer page in you control panel and open it in editing mode, then;

(Firstly, be sure to backup your footer template, so that you could restore it if something goes wrong.)

1. Enter this code just at the very beginning of the footer page : <!--ActivehackersFooterTop--/>

2. Then paste this code at the very last of the page: <!--ActivehackersFooterEnd-->

3. Then save the footer page and then browse your website/blog in general mode from the web browser. You will found nothing change till that moment. Just at the moment, view the page source from the tools menu of the web browser. The try to search the code you just entered before <!--ActivehackersFooterTop--> . And after finding that, search for <!--ActivehackersFooterEnd-->

4. As soon you find those two codes, copy all the codes in between it without missing anycode between them.

5. Then go to your blog/site's control panel, go to footer page in editing mode, and the finally replace all the old codes with the new one you just got from your website's source code.

6. Modify the html code as you want. Finally, after you're done, save and exit.

7. You're done. Hurray, you are done!