Footer Credits
A Customizer control to make footer credits editable.
3.7(6 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Footer Credits is a WordPress footer plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 30K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 22% this week. Top alternative: Header Footer Code Manager.
3.7/56 reviews
1.0K+active installs
30K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
This plugin only works with themes that have added support.
Footer Credits provides a standardized method for making theme credits editable. It registers a new section and fields in the Customizer for modifying the credits and choosing how they appear.
Theme authors, let your users and customers know your theme supports the Footer Credits plugin.
If your theme doesn’t work with Footer Credits, ask the developer to add support. Instructions can be find in the Other Notes section.
Additional Resources
Notes
If you’re a theme author and want to add support, all you need to do is pass the default credits string through a footer_credits filter.
1. Create a template tag with the default credits and filter:
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
It just doesn’t work with the new WP version (may, 2018)
by tatianamendonca·7 years ago
It just doesn’t work with the new WP version (may, 2018)
Perfect for Audiotheme themes
by Computerbuddha·8 years ago
Audiotheme-support – they have great themes for musicians – has pointed me to this plugin. Works good!
Works like a charm (for a supported theme)
by tempesthomas·8 years ago
I’ve read the one star reviews, and they’re likely trying to use the plugin on an unsupported theme. Your theme’s developer must offer support, but once they do, it does exactly what it says on the tin!
Not working
by yuvalg72·9 years ago·1 reply
Not working
not working this the last wordpress version
by zampai·10 years ago·1 reply
After instal and config via customizer, nothing appen.
Download Trends
Today: 3Yesterday: 5This week: 28Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
98.8%
v1.0
1.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.0 – December 2, 2016
- Removed the call to
load_plugin_textdomain()in favor of just-in-time text domain loading available since WordPress 4.6. - Updated URLs to https where possible.
1.0.0
- Initial release.
Contributors
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