WordPress Quick Tip: How To Change The WordPress Admin Footer Text

Chris Creed / 8th June 2010

In a previous tip I showed you how to add your own logo to the WordPress Admin login screen. This can be useful if you need to customize WordPress installations for clients and it helps to keep the branding of the site consistent.

Another place where you may like to add some custom branding is the WordPress Admin footer – by default the content displayed here is a little generic, so you may want to adapt it to make it more relevant to your client’s business/organization.

Here’s what’s displayed by default in the WordPress Admin footer:

To change this to something more suitable add the following code to your functions.php file:

<?php function change_footer_content () {
    echo "Copyright &copy; 2010 / My Company Name / All Rights Reserved";
} 
add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'change_footer_content');
?>

Save your changes and then view your WordPress Admin area – you should now see that the footer text has changed.

Nice and simple! I hope you find this tip useful – let me know if you have any questions/feedback.

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About The Author

Hi there, I'm Chris and the Founder of Voosh Themes. I've been designing & developing websites for over 10 years and am interested in just about anything related to design. I also have a PhD in Computer Science (with a particular focus on Interaction Design).

1 Comment

Richard Thomas

July 16th, 2010 at 7:15 pm

can anyone help me out. basically i tried adding your script chris to my functions file. but kept getting 2 error messages simular to the one ive pasted in below – basically says the headers have already been sent and it was telling me to like at something like line 337 and 339 of my functions.php file. so i un-did what i did and returned everything back to normal. then i tried the pluggin that someone posted above. my logo appeared on my wp-admin login page once but failed to login and now everytime i go to the login page i get the error below: even after i removed the pluggin i still get this. can anyone help please.

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/rtmediac/public_html/wp-content/themes/sanura/functions.php:410) in /home/rtmediac/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 890

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