Ever have a wordpress theme with an encrypted footer!

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: January 14th, 2009 | 2 Comments

A really annoying thing that i came to find when looking at themes for wordpress was that a lot of the theme's have there footers encrypted, this is usually found on free theme's. This really began to annoy me becasue you could no longer edit the footer to include your name or to add things to it.

If you attempted to delete the code in the footer it would break your theme and cause a fatal error. The encrypted code in the footer would look something like this:

Like come on why do this, it just pisses people off! So instead of accepting defeat i decided i was going to find a way to get the footer back to how it should be 'EDITABLE'. I found a really simple way to do this all you have to do is apply the theme with the encrypted footer then go to your main page then click tool then view the source of the page you are currently looking at. then go to the bottom of the code and you will see how the footer should look, simply highlight the code for the footer and then copy it and paste it over the encrypted code in the themes footer, simple!

Take that theme coders!

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