How to change the Genesis theme’s footer credit link [WordPress]

By Sana Rajot April 2, 2012

Its always better to give credits to people that have helped you in setting up your site. It can be a friend or a consultant, a link to there site is the best way to appreciate their help. Or if you are a freelancer its always better to add a link to give a credit of your work.
Genesis is a highly customizable theme but one thing I don’t like about Genesis is that by default the footer link does not contain the name of the site along with the copyright in the footer credit. When ever I customize a Genesis child theme, I need to edit the footer credit link to add the name of the site beside the Copyright. So here are two methods that will let you totally remove the footer credit or change it.

Method 1: Using PHP code

Edit your Genesis child theme’s functions.php (Appearance > Editor > functions.php) and add the below code at the bottom.

add_filter('genesis_footer_creds_text', 'my_footer_creds_text');
function my_footer_creds_text($creds) {
//change the below line to change the footer credit
$creds = '[footer_copyright]' . get_bloginfo('name') . ' • Built on the [footer_genesis_link] powered by [footer_wordpress_link]';
 return  $creds;
}

Method 2: Using Genesis simple edit plugin

This method is easier than method 1. All you need to do it install the Genesis simple edit plugin. With the help of this plugin you will be able to edit Post Info, Post Meta and Footer Credit line. You can use Genesis Shortcodes with this plugin but PHP is not allowed. If you want a change the footer credit to something which requires PHP code then you will have to do it using PHP code (Method 1).
After you have installed and activated the plugin goto Genesis >Simple Edits. To change the Footer credit edit the Footer Credit Text.