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    I feel like a real NOOB. Had a super basic Wordpress site built for a client by a dude in India. All was fine. I need to make a really quick change to the site Footer...but can't figure out where the hell I can update it.

    I've gone into the Theme Editor area...trying to customise the Footer Bar...and whatever I change makes no difference.

    Have searched through all the site files to see if he hard coded the info and nothing.

    The footer just says Copyright 2020 and then the company name...which I need to change.

    The little bastard has gone missing, so I stuck and feeling like a dope. Any ideas appreciated.

    Yours sincerely
    Wordpress Nuffie

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    • Hard to say without seeing how it is built.
      A) If hardcoded you should probably look footer.php in theme folder.
      B) Sometimes could be also under Widgets      dpi
    • C) Site title could be company name in footer.
      If you need more help give us some screenshots of theme folder setup and code inside footer.php      dpi
    • if its a genesis framework it can sometimes be dynamically generated in the functions.php file.hotroddy
    • Thanks. I'll do a little more digging and see what I can find.BusterBoy
    • You've checked theres not a customisation setting for it in the admin itself somewhere.webazoot
    • Can't bloody find anything anywhere. The name in the footer isn't exactly the same as in Admin. Can't find any ref anywhere.BusterBoy
    • The site itself is really messy codewise...so god knows what the hell he's done. I'll have to wait I think.BusterBoy
    • Hidden stuff in the admin caught me out a few times. Can you download all the theme files via ftp and run a search through them?webazoot
    • Oh, see you did that already. Odd then.webazoot
    • As mentioned above, whats the footer code say in the area the text you want to change appears?webazoot
    • Did you inspect the element? Should tell you where the code is in the code?PhanLo
    • This is what sucks about WordPress, a million ways to potentially update something. Customize, theme settings, etc.yuekit
    • Download the whole site, do text search for the string/text. If you don't find it, dump the sql and search the text there, you'll find it.spot13
    • Replace it via CSS?OBBTKN
    • So I eventually found it.
      Templates - Theme Builder - Global Footer and it's in Elementor. Far out!
      Thanks one and all.      BusterBoy
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