Hi, 

I just created new Word press 2012 child theme, and tried to remove Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: editor by Array footer.

Had a look at several tutorials, but it seems they were made before some 2012 updates.

I went to Appearance - Editor, and in parent 2012 removed several lines ( as they said in the tutorial ). Didn't work, and got a message that ' something went wrong '.

Here is the footer code, could you please tell me which part should I delete ?

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying the footer.
 *
 * Contains the closing of the #content div and all content after
 *
 * @package Editor
 */
?>

    </div><!-- #content -->

    <footer id="colophon" class="site-footer" role="contentinfo">
        <div class="site-info">
            <a class="powered-by" href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'http://wordpress.org/', 'editor' ) ); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'editor' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a>
            <span class="sep"> | </span>
            <?php printf( __( 'Theme: %1$s by %2$s', 'editor' ), 'editor', '<a href="https://array.is/">Array</a>' ); ?>
        </div><!-- .site-info -->
    </footer><!-- #colophon -->
</div><!-- #page -->

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>

 

Thanks, Alan

 

2012 theme!

you really need to use a more upto date theme. Wordpress has undergone a lot of changes in the last 6 years and these old themes just don’t cut it anymore.

However, just delete the div with the class ‘site-info’.

Don’t use the editor. Do it off line so if anything breaks you can recover your website.

9 hours ago, fisicx said:

2012 theme!

you really need to use a more upto date theme. Wordpress has undergone a lot of changes in the last 6 years and these old themes just don’t cut it anymore.

However, just delete the div with the class ‘site-info’.

Don’t use the editor. Do it off line so if anything breaks you can recover your website.

Thanks for advice. Sorry, I made a mistake - 2012 is the one I use for some other web site.

One I was asking about is Editor. I liked the fact it has left vertical menu bar.

Basically, I was looking for a portfolio theme, left vertical menu, with no blog ( Editor has a blog on the other page ). Just some simple design with empty pages to fill with images. 2015 looks promising...

Have you got any suggestions ?

Just one more question re. child themes - if I want to change some script from original parent do I have to import that part of code ( like Theme footer ) to child ?

I downloaded WP to hosting server, and am working from there - it's always online. To work off line I guess I'd have to work through local host, and upload it to server - to be honest have no clue how to do it. 

There are hundreds of portfolio themes. Having the menu in the left isn't a good UX as a lot of browsing is done on smaller screens (tablets and phones). The Editor theme moves the menu to the top of the page pushing the key elements of the page down below the fold.

If you use a child theme you need the updated file in the child theme folder.