Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress. How do i get rid of this. Any time i get rid of this, the sidebar disappear. How can i safety remove this please.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

What theme are you using? If child theme of bp-default, copy over footer.php of bp-default theme into your child theme folder. Open it up and delete
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“<?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress.’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘http://wordpress.org&#8217;, ‘http://buddypress.org&#8217; ) ?>“

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[@mercime Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

What theme are you using? If child theme of bp-default, copy over footer.php of bp-default theme into your child theme folder. Open it up and delete
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“<?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress.’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘http://wordpress.org&#8217;, ‘http://buddypress.org&#8217; ) ?>“

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[@r-a-y Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

Create a child theme of the BuddyPress Default theme.

Then, copy over /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/footer.php to your new child theme, open up footer.php, then read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-default/#post-110268

[@r-a-y Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

Create a child theme of the BuddyPress Default theme.

Then, copy over /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/footer.php to your new child theme, open up footer.php, then read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-default/#post-110268

[@flora1234 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

What do you mean by copy over footer and then into your child theme folder….? sorry?

[@flora1234 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

What do you mean by copy over footer and then into your child theme folder….? sorry?

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

What BP-compatible theme are you using? If you’re using the bp-default theme, you should not make changes directly on that theme because it will be overwritten when you upgrade BP plugin. You need to create a child theme instead.

Copying footer.php from bp-default theme into child theme folder per tutorial (if you want to use bp-default theme and customize it) and upload to server is just like copying over some a file from one folder to another in your computer then FTP/cpanel upload to server.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

What BP-compatible theme are you using? If you’re using the bp-default theme, you should not make changes directly on that theme because it will be overwritten when you upgrade BP plugin. You need to create a child theme instead.

Copying footer.php from bp-default theme into child theme folder per tutorial (if you want to use bp-default theme and customize it) and upload to server is just like copying over some a file from one folder to another in your computer then FTP/cpanel upload to server.

[@flora1234 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Hello Ray and Mercime. Thank you for your help. I did what i was supposed to do and i got a message to the tune ” you cannot edit this file”. WHen transfering footer to be put inside the child theme folder sitting along side the style.css. Please help. All i am trying to do is to delete a few words from the footer in the child theme but it is causing too much trouble. What have i done wrong. please help.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

== i got a message to the tune ” you cannot edit this file” ==
At this time, WP prevents theme editor for BP-default child themes. So you should download bp-default theme’s footer.php to your computer and edit it there. After you edit and save footer.php, upload it to your server via FTP/cpanel, etc. wp-content/themes/name-of-your-child-theme-folder/