How to Change or Completely Remove the Text in the WordPress Admin Footer

Do you want to give your WordPress website’s admin panel a more professional and personalized look? One simple step is to change the standard text in the admin panel’s lower footer, or completely remove it. This is especially useful for web studios, freelancers, and SEO specialists who want to remove mentions of WordPress, replacing them with their own branding or useful information.

What does changing the footer text provide?

The text in the footer of the WordPress administrative panel contains two elements by default:

1. The developer mention (“Thank you for creating with WordPress”).

2. The current WordPress version number.

By changing these elements, you can:

• Strengthen Branding: Insert your company’s name, studio (e.g., ‘overcod.net’) or a link to your website.

• Improve Security (Partially): Hide the exact WordPress version number, making it harder for potential attackers looking for vulnerabilities in specific CMS versions.

• Simplify the Interface: Remove unnecessary elements for clients or users for whom this information is not important.

Your Code for Managing the Admin Footer

To implement these changes, you need to add special PHP code to the functions.php file of your active child theme (this is the recommended method to preserve changes upon theme updates) or use a plugin for adding code.

1. Changing the Developer Text to Your Brand

This code will replace the standard text “Thank you for creating with WordPress” with the text ‘overcod.net’ (or any other text you specify).

// ===================================
// Change the developer text in the footer
// ===================================
function wph_admin_footer_text () {
echo '<i>overcod.net</i> '; // Change to your text
}
add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'wph_admin_footer_text');

2. Complete Removal of the Developer Text

If you wish to completely hide this block, just pass an empty string:

// ===================================
// Completely hide the developer text
// ===================================
function wph_admin_footer_text () {
echo ' '; // Empty string
}
add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'wph_admin_footer_text');

3. Removing the WordPress Version Number

This filter completely removes the display of the WordPress version number from the right side of the admin panel footer.

// ===============================================
// Hide the WordPress version number from the admin footer
// ===============================================
function remove_admin_footer_version() {
    return '';
}
add_filter('update_footer', 'remove_admin_footer_version', 9999);

Conclusion

Using these simple PHP functions and WordPress filters (admin_footer_text and update_footer) allows you to easily customize the admin panel to your needs, enhance WordPress security (by hiding the version), and ensure a professional UX/UI for clients. These WordPress tweaks are an important step in White Label customization.