Including all the default templates like rhuk_milkyway, ja_purity, beez templates or other templates which you generally download form Internet and install that for your Joomla site, you always find a footer link like Powered by Joomla!. valid XHTML and CSS or Copyright by example.com like links. All these footer links are not desirable and you generally not like to display those links for your website. This can be easily customize or delete totally form your Joomla 1.5 website’s footer part. Not only you remove those texts and links, but also you can create your own customize links and texts there. Here, you would find the total instructions for customizing all free default Joomla 1.5 template footer texts by removing or editing default Joomla 1.5 footer texts!
Steps to customize all free default Joomla 1.5 template footer texts by removing or editing default Joomla 1.5 template texts:
Step 1: Log in to your Joomla 1.5! website’s admin control panel using the admin username and password.
Step 2: Go to Extensions > Template Manager. From Template Manager, choose the template which you are using for your Joomla 1.5! website by simply clicking on that template. After clicking on that template, you will access the template section of that template.
Step 3: Now click on Edit HTML link to edit / customize / delete the footer link from your website template.
Step 4: After step 3, you will access the template code section of your Joomla 1.5 website. Scroll down the template code and at the end of the code section you will find codes under div id = “footer”. Remember, all footers of any template generally reside in this part with several styled texts and now start customizing as you like to do. For example, the codes may look like the followings:
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer_l">
<div id="footer_r">
<p id="syndicate">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="syndicate" />
</p>
<p id="power_by">
<?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>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Here we need to change the code Powered by Joomla!. valid XHTML and CSS with our own texts like Copyright by HideMyTips. So, we need to change the texts and the links. For this case the code will look like the followings:
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer_l">
<div id="footer_r">
<p id="syndicate">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="syndicate" />
</p>
<p id="power_by">
<?php echo JText::_('Copyright by') ?> <a href="http://www.hideMyTips.com">HideMyTips.com!</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Step 6: After doing all the modification or changes, click on Save button to save all the changes you just do to change the footer texts and links.
And that’s all. Just think your mind which texts you would like to add and delete which text portions and finally linked them by your proffered URL. Hope, following the above mentioned simple methods, you can easily customize all free default Joomla 1.5 template footer texts by removing or editing default Joomla 1.5 texts!
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