Website Design News How do I remove the Joomla! Copyright?
Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 January 2009 22:20 Written by Ruth Cheesley Tuesday, 30 December 2008 12:54
While some people are happy to publicly display the Joomla! Copyright, it is not required and it may not be appropriate on some sites (or may need altering to show different information). Here's how you do it!
There are three ways to accomplish this, however it is important to remember that you must retain reference to the Joomla! copyright in your source code and not remove it completely. What this means is that you must not strip every single reference to Joomla! from your code, but you ARE permitted to remove the PUBLICALLY VISIBLE TEXT in the footer area.
Joomla 1.0.x:
- Edit your index.php file to not call/include includes/footer.php
- Edit includes/footer.php to display the information you wish to show
- Edit the language file or the includes/version.php file that includes/footer.php calls from to show your information
- Navigate to Languages>en-GB (or whatever language you're using) and find the appropriate mod_footer.ini file
- Edit the following section:
FOOTER_LINE1=Copyright © %date% %sitename%. All Rights Reserved.
FOOTER_LINE2=<a href="http://www.joomla.org">Joomla!</a> is Free Software released under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU/GPL License.</a>
MOD_FOOTER=<em>mod_footer</em>
THIS MODULE SHOWS THE JOOMLA! COPYRIGHT INFORMATION=This Module shows the Joomla! Copyright information
<?php echo JText::_('Powered by') ?> <a href="http://www.joomla.org">Joomla!</a>.
<?php echo JText::_('Valid') ?> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">XHTML</a> <?php echo JText::_('and') ?> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">CSS</a>
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