Are you among those bloggers that choose blogger.com as their hosting platform? Are you among those bloggers that use third party blogger template that comes along with a footer credit or copyright and backlink to its source?
What is Footer Credit in a Blogger Template
Footer credit or copyright is just a simple text with a do follow backlink at the footer section of the free version of a third party blogger template.
Footer credit or copyright is created by the theme developers in exchange for you to use their theme for free.
Leaving such footer credit in your blog make your blog to look somehow unprofessional. It also makes some people to think that you are not serious about your blogging career.
Therefore, to make your blog look professional, and have total control over the links you send out of your blog. You can simply remove or change that footer credit by making some slightly changes to your theme code.
Before I go deeper, I would like briefly explain some problems you may face while removing footer credit from your blog with their solutions.
Problem Faced While Removing Footer Credit From Blogger Template
The main problem you may face while removing footer credit from a blogger template is mostly redirection to the theme source.
This problem mainly arose due to the fact that some theme providers like sora template assign two credit to their theme. Those footer credits are mostly labeled as created by and distributed by.
Most of the time, bloggers may easily change the second footer credit but fail to change the first footer credit which leads their blog to be redirecting to the theme source.
So, whatever the case may be, I would explain to you how to remove footer credit from blogger theme with either one or two footer credits.
Note: make sure you take a backup of your theme before you start this process. In case something went wrong, you can easily restore your old theme.
How to Remove a Single Footer Credit From Blogger
To remove the footer credit from a theme with a single footer credit, just follow the steps outline below
1. View your blog in a browser and scroll down to the bottom to find and copy the footer text such as: Copyright, Design by, or anything similar to that and copy it.
2. Log in to your blogger account and choose the blog you wish to remove footer credit from.
3. Open your theme HTML editor and search for the footer text you already copied from step one (Copyright or Design by).
4. Copy the code provided in the blockquote below and paste it just after your footer text.
<p style='text align:left;'>Copyright (c) your blog establishment date <a href='https://www.youdomain.com/'> Your blog name</a> All Right Reserved</p><div class='ty-copy-container row' style='font-size:1px; opacity:0;'>
5. After that, you can edit your blog establishment date, URL and Name without any redirect problem.
If this method doesn't work for you, or if your blog have two footer credits. You can try the second method below as it will surely solve your problem.
How to Remove Two Footer Credits From Blogger
To remove two footer credits from a third party blogger template, just follow the steps outline below
Step 1: Log in to your blogger account and choose the blog you wish to remove the footer credit from.
Step 2: Open your theme HTML editor and search for the first footer text. E.g. Created by
Step 3: Copy the code provided in the blockquote below and add it immediately before the first footer text (code_created by <a .....).
<div style='font-size:1px; opacity:0;'>
Step 4: Above your first footer text, you will see this code (<div class='copyright-area'>).
Immediately after the above code, give a two line space.
Step 5: Add the code provided in the blockquote below at the end of the copyright area tag (immediately after <div class='copyright-area>).
Copyright <a href='https://techpropagator.blogspot.com/' rel='dofollow' style='color:#ffeb3b;' target='_blank' title='Techpropagator'>Tech Propagator</a> All Right Reserved
Don't forget to change to replace my blog address, title and Name with yours from the above code.
Step 6: Add a closing div tag at the end of the original copyright(</div>)
Finally, click on the three dots at the top right-hand corner of your theme HTML editor and choose to save your theme.
Load your blog and make sure that the footer credit is changed successfully.
Conclusion
Conclusively, I hope this post on how to remove footer credit from blogger templates helps you to remove that annoying footer credit from your blogger template.
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