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How to Change the Footer Credits in Divi

Change the default footer copyright text using the Theme Customizer or using the Theme Builder.

Updated over 4 months ago

The Divi theme will display the following default copyright text for the Footer: Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress.

You can use two different ways to change the default Footer copyright text.

Change the Footer Copyright text using Theme Customizer (easy)

  1. Go to WordPress Dashboard → Divi → Theme Customizer

  2. Go to Footer → Bottom Bar

  3. In the Edit Footer Credits, add your own custom copyright text

    Divi Theme Customizer - Edit Footer copyright text

  4. Save the change by clicking on the Publish button.

Note: If you need to, you can also use HTML code, for example, to add custom links.

Example:

This is a custom footer <a href="https://elegantthemes.com">text</a>

The above example will change the default copyright text with the following text: This is a custom footer text, where the text will be a link to the Elegant Themes website.

Change the Footer Copyright text using Theme Builder (medium)

  1. Go to WordPress Dashboard → Divi → Theme Builder

  2. Click on Add Global Footer

    Divi Theme Builder - Create a Global Footer

  3. Choose the Build Global Footer option

  4. Click on the Plus Green icon to add a new Row

  5. Choose a 1 Column

  6. Insert the Text module

  7. Add your custom copyright text

  8. Edit the Section settings and in Content Tab → Background → Background Color set a dark background color

  9. Go to Section's Design Tab → Spacing → Padding, and for the Top and Bottom padding, set 0px

    Divi Theme Builder - Remove the Section's Padding

  10. Edit the Text module, and from Design Tab → Text → Text Text Color, choose a light color

    Divi Theme Builder - Style the Footer's text
  11. Save the changes and exit the Visual Builder

  12. Click again on the Save Changes button

    Divi Theme Builder - Save changes

Notes:

  • Check the Divi Theme Builder documentation pages to learn more about Divi Theme Builder.

  • The steps above show the basic process of creating a custom Global Footer layout.

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