By default, most WordPress themes have a generic disclaimer in the footer, but this can make your website look unprofessional and leaves less space for your own links, copyright notices, and other content.
Whether you want to declutter your footer or add your own branding, removing the default WordPress credits is easy and will improve the overall look of your website.
Through our extensive experience building WordPress websites, we realized the importance of maintaining brand consistency, so we strategically removed the “powered by WordPress” footer link from our websites, including WPBeginner, WPForms, and MonsterInsights.
In this article we will show you how you can easily remove the “powered by WordPress” links in the footer.
How to remove the powered by WordPress footer links
Why remove WordPress footer credits?
Many different WordPress themes have a “Proudly buy lead powered by WordPress” disclaimer in the footer of their website, which links to the official WordPress.org website.
The Powered by WordPress disclaimer
Some theme developers go a step further and add their own credits in the footer.
In the image below you can see the disclaimer added by the Astra WordPress theme .
The Astra footer disclaimer
While this “Powered by…” footer is great for software developers, it makes your website appear less professional, especially if you run a business website .
It also tells hackers that you're using WordPress, which could help them break into your site. For example, if you don't use a custom login URL , hackers can simply append /wp-admin to your site's address to get to your login page.