WordPress tip : How to change the dashboard footer text

WordPress tip : How to change the dashboard footer text

When building a site for a client, it can be useful to be able to modify the dashboard footer text. This recipe is going to show you how you can easily do it using a hook.

Paste the following on your functions.php, save the file, and you're done. Couldn't been easier

function remove_footer_admin () {
    echo "Your own text";
} 

add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'remove_footer_admin');

22 Responses

Slobodan Kustrimovic

Jan 11 2010 17:01

Cool and Easy, but the function name seems kind a strange Maybe “custom_footer_text” would be the right name

Dinesh

Jan 11 2010 17:43

Thanks for this tweak bro.

Gerrit Fries

Jan 11 2010 18:44

Very usefull for those of us who build wordpress based websites for customers. thanks a lot for sharing!

Kevin Chapelier

Jan 11 2010 19:13

Note that returning the custom text would a cleaner way to do it as the value could be filtered multiple times.

function remove_footer_admin ($text) {
$ex = explode(‘|’, $text);
return $ex[0].’ | No more additional links.’;
}

add_filter(‘admin_footer_text’, ‘remove_footer_admin’);

THE MOLITOR

Jan 11 2010 19:39

That’s fantastic!

DJ NightLife

Jan 11 2010 20:26

Getting an error at add_filter…?

DJ NightLife

Jan 11 2010 20:28

Nevermind, I was using the file in includes folder! It needs to be the theme’s one

Marcin Godlewski

Jan 11 2010 21:14

Even easier is footer.php (in your theme) edit and make changes as we want

Michael Pehl

Jan 12 2010 00:58

Very nice tip. And very useful for me since i am building my own theme at the moment

Thank you for sharing!

Dave

Jan 12 2010 03:54

Again, thanks. You can really customize the Wordpress dashboard, especially if one were to go through the posts you’ve made. It would be nice if all these little hacks could be put into a plugin… maybe “WP-Custom Dashboard” that would be cool