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I have extensively modified an existing theme, so it no longer remotely resembles the original. How do I a) get rid of "Theme (whatever) by (So-and-so)" or failing that, b) adding "modified by (me)" in the footer? If I do a <display:none;> it gets rid of all the text, including the "Blog at WordPress.com" which I believe I'm obligated to display.
TIA,
__Orin
The blog I need help with is scootinoldskool.wordpress.com.
A) is very bad form. You might have done some styling but the theme wouldn't function without its creator.
B) Can we have a link to the modified one please? I'm seeing Contempt at the one linked to your name.
Try it again, ellaella. You may have caught it between attempts at changes. BTW, I was able to figure out how to append (prepend?) some text noting the modifications and giving credit to the original designer:
#footer p:before {
content:"Re-imagined by Orin O'Neill — based on the ";
}
Thanks for responding.
That looks good, orino. I very much like the choice of "re-imagined."
I added a simple phrase to my footer that I styled the theme, just as a way of saying to people, "If you don't like the way it looks, blame me, not the theme author."
Happy blogging!
I think that's an excellent workaround. Very professional. The internet always pays back people who give credit to other people.
Speaking of which, I just passed your blog on to a scooting friend of mine.
I was also wondering how to do something like orino did. I've tweaked a theme (PressRow) and would like to be able to note that in the footer (I really like the "re-imagined" idea).
However, I have no idea how to go about doing it. Any suggestions? I admit to being a bit of a noob here.
Here's how I did it:
orino
cheekstv#footer p:before {
content:"Re-imagined by Orin O'Neill — based on the ";
}"#footer" is the ID of the DIV that contains the text, "p" is the paragraph tag, :before is the psuedo-class (if you want to add text to the end, you'd use ":after"). You need to specify text with the ID, otherwise you'd precede or append the text to everything with a "p" tag.
Nice!
You might, however, want to note that this doesn't work with IE.
(It's fine with FF and Chrome though)
Yes, IE cannot even say the words "psuedo-class." I should say though that I'm not sure about IE8, by IE7 and earlier, no habla psuedo-class.
It works in IE8. Text generally looks much better, too.
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