(Modern Blogger Pro) Edit Footer in Modern Blogger Pro Theme

[salaslp]

I want to edit the footer on my site, but I can't figure out how to get to it. Grateful for any help!
Cheers,
Laura

http://laurasalas.com/

[Victor Font]

The easiest way is to use the Genesis Simple Edits plugin.

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Victor
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[Adrien Sanborn]

Are you comfortable with code? If so you can probably find it in the functions.php file and switch out the contents. I don't have the Modern Blogger Pro theme, but if you copy the contents of functions.php I can help you out.

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[Victor Font]

Unless someone added footer code to your functions.php, you won't find anything there. The initial footer text comes from the framework. You can add a snippet to functions.php to alter the text though: http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/footer/#custom-footer

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Regards,

Victor
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[salaslp]

Thanks, you guys, for trying to help. I have edited functions.php only once before (very carefully!), and managed that fine. This time, however, I went in and screwed it all up. I had this code originally:

/** Customize the credits */
add_filter('genesis_footer_creds_text', 'footer_creds_filter');
function footer_creds_filter( $creds ) {
$creds = 'Copyright [footer_copyright] · Modern Blogger Pro Theme By, Pretty Darn Cute Design';
return $creds;
}

When I tried adding the few words in that I needed, and updated the file, I got this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'Website' (T_STRING) in /home/salaslp/public_html/wp-content/themes/modernbloggerpro/functions.php on line 13

So I pasted back in the EXACT code that had been there when I opened the file, but I'm still getting that error message. My site is down now, and I don't know what I've done wrong. I vow not to muck around in functions.php if anyone's able to tell me how to get it back to working. The code is what is was originally, so I don't understand why it's not behaving the same.

[salaslp]

OK, please ignore my previous plea for help! I went in to the functions file through godaddy and discovered that even though I had been changing the code back to the original, I guess the error I had introduced hadn't been letting the file accept my changes to correct it! Anyway, I got the original code back in there, and my site is back up.

I'm going to give the Simple Edits plugin a try, and if that doesn't cut it, the footer will just need to stay how it is! Thank you very much for the advice/links/etc. :>)

[Susan]

This is also a question you can ask on the Pretty Darn Cute Design Support Forum: https://prettydarncute.com/forum-index/

Here is a post I wrote about editing the site credits for each of the Pretty Darn Cute Design themes (link)

~ Susan
Support Administrator
Pretty Darn Cute Design

[Susan]

Victor: To address your comment...

Unless someone added footer code to your functions.php, you won’t find anything there.

There is code in the functions.php file of the Modern Blogger Pro theme to add the site credits in there; it's part of the theme's original functions.php file.

[Adrien Sanborn]

Thanks for the insight Susan. I recently updated my own footer using the Foodie Pro theme, so I thought Modern Blogger might be a similar case.

On an unrelated note, I've also taken up the challenge.

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[Victor Font]

Thanks Susan, normally I look at the code first before I answer questions. I should have done it this time.

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Regards,

Victor
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[Susan]

Victor - no big deal - it's a third party theme, so not everyone owns them. I just know because I provide their theme support. 🙂

Yay, Adrien!

[salaslp]

Thanks, Susan!

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