As of April 2026, Remove Footer Credit is a WordPress change plugin with 80K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 87 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.2M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Say What?.
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.
An agency, who’d done a sloppy job, left a protected attribution in the footer. This plugin quickly allowed me to remove that attribution, and I look forward to them noticing, being irked, and not daring to call me.
The plugin is good and works even on free versions of paid themes that are protected from editing, though not 100%. The plugin developer cannot anticipate all the tricks used by theme creators.
Thank you for your work!
This allowed me to replace my theme’s footer text with alternative text. Thanks!
No anda, lo activas y nada cambia, ni se molesten en instalarlo
It worked perfectly on my website. Thanks for great plugin.
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
Fixed: Load texdomain just in time.
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