thank you for joining me for another videomy name is adam from wpcrafter.com where i make videos for non-techies like me and inthis video on to show you how to change the credits on the bottom of this thing calledthe tesseract theme and also to show you how to remove these annoying mad messages thatare in the backing of wordpress if you're using this theme now this is can apply toversion 2.7 and up and i hear this is what the credits are working to remove this righthere in michigan to put whatever you want if you're in word press and you have thistheme and so they feel that to these nag annoying messages like this and you can even like getrid of it i'll just keep coming back, to show you how to get rid of that as well now i didn'treally want to make this video i don't plan
on making any videos on this theme i do notrecommend this scene i've looked at the code there is lots of issues and quality issueswith this theme there is really no path to support they do some things that are veryunconventional and i really question the ethics behind this theme but i do have some of thepeople that go to my website they're using this theme and they asked if i would updatethis video because i made a video on changing these items i made a video on that maybe sixmonths ago and so i'm updating the video for version 2.7 and an above now if you're havingthis theme on your side are ready you can follow along if you are thinking about usingthis theme i would strongly suggest not using this theme it's really not that good whenyou look under the hood of the theme and plus
there's some other reasons why i stronglydon't suggested and i don't actually want to get into those issues in this video hereis a much better team it's also free is called generate press and it is an awesome themeby an awesome guy who actually coded it himself unlike the tesseract the more they'd encodethat themselves this thing they actually made themselves this thing right here in austindeveloper was really nice about this theme as he got all these options and you can makeit look however you want but check this out there is a dedicated website and check thiswhen you go to support him and help there's the support forms she can go in there andyou could see the developers in here fixing people's problems if there are problems ofpeople have questions he's answering them
he is 100% dedicated to the users of thistheme and that's what i like about it and you don't really get that with this the there'sreally no clear path to support among lots of other problems with it now you might visuallyrecognize this theme and then in this form right here or this form right here both ofthose are what the videos were based off of him on youtube so anyways this is going tobe for the tesseract theme version 2.7 and a and i want to go over this in detail nowthe first question that you might be asking yourself are you allowed to do this and youabsolutely rc wordpress themes and plug-ins the vast majority are licensed by somethingcalled the gpl can you can google that on your own but essentially what the gpl meansis you are freely allowed to change any of
the code on your site you're allowed to redistributegpl code so i can take this theme and give it to wherever i wanted you can rebrand itif you want and even sell it and so i could literally take this theme if i i had a deathwish and change the name and then sell it to people i would never do something likethat but the gpl allows you to do that and that's one of the beauties of this thing calledthe gpl something i would encourage you to maybe do a little bit more reading on of onyour own if you're curious now this theme is a gpl license and this is how you findout so you can log into your website to go to appearance and then go to editor and it'sbeen a pull up something called the stylesheet so you can see right here says that the nameof the theme it's a stylesheet and when i
scroll down a little bit to pull this up andthen i scroll down a little bit in their it says right here that it is fully gpl licensewhich means i can do anything i want with this so i just wanted to add that little bitof information because the developer actually is contradictory information on their websiteit's, like they want to have their cake and eat it too so they made this gpl license andi think they might've had to make it gpl license because the foundation of this theme if theyactually got from someplace else themselves they didn't coat this thing from scratch soif you go to the themes website right here and were to scroll all the way down there'sa terms of use here and someone to scroll down a little bit on the terms of use andit says right here that you don't have permission
to change the copyright and if you want tochange the copyright you have to buy this plug-in for $50 i'm just telling you thatit's gpl licensed they lit listed as gpl license they even called this thing from scratch andyet they want to see you if you want to change it you have to pay them 50 bucks per websitewhich i think is insane but anyways the gpl supersedes this little wine on their termsof use right here so there's nothing wrong he legal and moral or any of that stuff withchanging this little bit of text that's displaying on your website i just want to let you knowthat now you might say well these guys there working hard to give it for free and theydo all that why not just give him 50 bucks that's a good argument if you want to givethem 50 bucks go ahead and give them 50 bucks
however if you think that's the only way theymake money then you actually don't understand how they make money i do and let me just tellyou they don't need that 50 bucks okay so anyways that is me just covering the wholelegality there's nothing illegal there's no trouble you can get in as a matter fact ifyou want to take this theme put your name on it and sell it for 100 bucks you are morethan welcome to do it because it's clearly gpl licensed as you can see right here soyou know you can have your cake and eat it too you can't take gpl code and then tellpeople it's gpl license and then tell them what they can do you can dictate what thegpl says you can and cannot do the gpl dictates that so anyways i didn't want to go to thisconfusing thing but i'm sorry alright so normally
when you want to change something like thata code change if you just went and changed it in the code that's what's called not upgradesafe which means if a new update to the theme comes out of it would overwrite your changeso what we need to do is add a custom child theme now there are plug-ins that you canget for word press that with one click it will create a child theme for you now theproblem is this theme is encoded well so if you try to use one of those get all kindsof error messages and stuff like that and they're just not going to work so what i'vedone is i've put together a child theme for you that you can go to my website and downloadfor free there's no cost of course i'd be hypocritical me to try to sell to someoneknow it's free now if you're watching this
on youtube there's a video description areaand you can just expand it and they'll be a link that will take you exactly what tothe spot on my website where you can download it so please don't just run over to my websiteand live chat me asking me where this is when the link is now below and you can just clickon it and go there and i'm an email the child theme over to you that is the reason why youcan just use one of those plug-ins to create a child thing you really got to use the childtheme that i created for you in on a show you exactly what's in it so there's no ofmisunderstandings so what you gonna my website and downloaded this child theme now we canpick up in the video were actually to get this done so first you're going to want togo to plug-ins and you're going to want to
add this plug-in right here call customizerimport export and there's a reason why working to do this and say just really go to plug-insadd new and right here you can just enter a search see how annoying this so messagesintroduce search for and this is it right here it's by the beaver builder to the teamand there's about 30,000 active installs what this is going allows to do is export and importsome of our custom settings that we've added to the theme okay to make sure that when weput this child theme is to look identical to how you have it looking right now don'tknow what we want to do once we've done that we want to go into the customizers you goto appearance and then you click on customize and this should be familiar this is whereyou change all the different settings in your
theme now the reason we need to export thesesettings and then import it is cost a lot of times when you activate a child theme it'sgoing to not carry these these customizations are to carry over these customizer customizationsso be on the safe side we want to export these changes that we've made so that it's reallyeasy to import them after we activate the child thing so what you do to incoherenceis export import and click their and then click on this export button right here andthen it just gonna download a file to your computer now the name this files can be testedright-export.dat will be in your downloads folder germany need to know where that isokay so now we've done that let's get out of the customizer by clicking on this x sonow we need to do is upload the child things
so you're going to appearance go to themesand click on add new and then just click on upload theme right here then just click onchoose file and upload the child themes on my dragline across in enemy click on installnow and it's going to go ahead and install that child theme now what you need to do isclick on the activate button right here now you can immediately notice that the nag screensare gone they're all going to be gone and i'm gonna show you where the code is thatmay does disappear so you know exactly what's in this child thing tonight to see two themeshere it is your parenting right here and then the child theme which is the active themenow when we go to the front end of the website let me go there right here and scroll downyou see right there is can see my new footer
or something like that okay so now let mego back here now i want to show you the contents of this custom child think just you know what'sin there okay summit click right here on my local computer and i'm gonna bring this acrosslike this you can see so this is what is in the child theme and these are all the filesthat are in it so for instance if the reason i told you earlier that if you try to useone of those one click type of plug-ins to create a child theme to get much errors wellthat's what i had to put this file in here because it's can cause an error this righthere is the name of the footer file some of the changes we make in here even if the parenttheme is updated is not an overwrite these changes this is a function following to showyou that what that's gonna do is it's gonna
remove those nag screens and right here aresome images this is to make the page builder work writes the importer that's the same thingfor the page builder this is normal stuff in the style that css i'll show you what thatis that's how we're gonna style the footer a little bit and it's also i made it reallyeasy to change some of the button styles that you could put in the header if you wantedso that's what's in there someone to show you all that stuff right now so first letme show you where to go to change the footer to say whatever you wanted to say okay soright now when you scroll down to just as my new footer and the reason i did that isso it's really easy to find where it is in the file to be super easier to see not a lotof criticism before with the prior child theme
because i had it say how to make a wordpresswebsite and had a link back to my site a lot of people criticize me say why would i changeone credit to different credit and the whole point is that was just to make it easy tofind so i'm not to do that this time because you know i don't need the headache of peoplegetting something for free and then getting mad at me so this what we need to do on thebackend of the word press editor click on right here were underneath appearances aseditor okay so here are those files that i was talking about the footer of the functionthe stylesheet and all that so it immediately takes us straight over to the stylesheet butwhat we want to do is click click on this footer file now one caveat this is the nameof the file if they change the name of the
footer file in the parent theme this is nolonger going to work you have to go into your website in your have to change the name ofthis file now unfortunately they did that once that's why this is for version 2.7 andup and not behind the older versions it was just named what everything names it footer.phpand they changed it for some reason so anyway so you click on that in your escrow all theway down to the bottom and the scroll up until we see that text my new footer and you seethem finding it right here my new footer now what we can do is put a text we want in thisarea right here click on update and that's what it's gonna look like on the front andso let's say my business name and the number click on update file animal to go to the frontand under to do refresh receives a my new
footer i'm a click on refresh announces mybusiness name so that's really easy for what i want to do is take this a bit further andsee how to maybe add a hyperlink at some style to it if you want to word in bold or somethinglike that and it's good to be really easy to do some believe this open and lecturingon to go to pages and i'm to click on add new now without really creating a new pagewere just can use the built-in word press code generator so we can actually go righthere and click on this visual tab sorry and we can actually create the look we want forour footer they click on the text copy and pasted in's let me show you what i mean someof the call this my new footer thanks adam okay whoops let me capitalize when it okayso say i wanted the footer to be bold so i
can highlight it and click on bold okay actuallywanted thanks to be italicized, do that and so now that's italicized and let's just sayfor adam i wanted a hyperlink that some enough highlight that and i'm going to click on thisbutton here that says insert link and let's just make that go to google but you can enterany hyperlink you wanted him and hit enter okay so now let's just say this is what iwant my footer to look like looks like this now but we wanted to look like this so cominghere make it how you want and then click on this text tab and you can see all this littlebits of code and this is what the word press editors kind of generated four units verycleanly done something i highlight this code in him and put it in my clipboard so now togo back and i'm to paste that into my footer
file someone ago to appearance editor andmy prop me to save it and obviously didn't anyways so i'm back in my editor and to goback into that footer file by clicking here on the right and to scroll all the way downin the number to slowly scroll up to find it and there it is my business name someonea highlighted dominic paste that little bit of code that wordpress just generated forme and i'm a click on update file sonoma to go back to the front and an omen to do a refreshand you could see right there now it looks like there is some spacing limitation hereto show you how to overcome that right now but you can see that i've got footer in boldi got thanks italicize and you can see when i hover over right here it's good to giveme that link to take me to the site that i
said so now we can see that that we want tokind of extended out a little bit of this just isn't enough to put our text now thisis going to involve a little bit of css but it's pretty easy if you want to make thiseasy just don't have a big old copyright there but let's go back into the backing of thewebsite and for the steinberg and click on this thing here that says that says stylesheetnow this is code that i added to make life easy for you you know the buttons on the topright that are in these demos all right here's where you can paste in your color codes tomake the color of those buttons whatever you want now if you don't want this code hereyou can literally just highlighted and remove it to scroll all the way down to the bottomwords is footer style and this is where we
can change and manipulate some of the stylesof the footer so what you do so and then adjust this with its currently same 13 just makeit 100 and see how it looks only click on update file my goal here and i'm a click onrefresh and you can see now my footer is not scrunched into two lines and everything'skind of spaced out exactly the way the header is spaced out to see that it is perfectlyspaced out so you can go here and words as footer style and you can play around withthat with number and there's also options to change other elements of the style of thatfooter so you might want to make that 100 and get that full with them so this righthere is how were going to change whatever we want this footer to be in its upgrade safethe only time it will stop working as if they
change the name of the footer file in theparent theme kim hoping this is making sense okay so now says initially with that themefunctions file was on the clicking of right now and this is what it looks like someonewe scroll down right here it says remove the footer removal nag and so right here it'sgoing to have a bit of code that can remove those display notices that were showing thosenag screens and so this notice right here is the one that says you you know if you wanta to remove this little bit of copyright techs in the bottom right or this footer credita 50 bucks was plugged in so that's what this is gonna remove and this is this other newannoying notice that they added where they're trying to or they sensually took someone else'splug-in and they change the name in there
trying to sell it themselves which is i thinksan ethics violation but anyways and that's what that is on its can remove that noticeas well so this is the function right here that is going to this is their whole completebid right here that's going or remove those annoying notices for you okay so that is whatthe theme function file is so the last a bit in this video is if you install the childsee me activated it and it doesn't look quite right it didn't look how it looked prior mustgo ahead and import those customizer settings so what you wanted to good appearance andthen customize and let me pull it up here and then you want to click on export importand then you're going to want to import the file right here someone to drag and drop thatright there in him to click on import in this
will restore all of the custom settings thatyou had so if you had this color here different the logo different all kinds of differentthings with the theme style that you can control right here what we just did will restore allthat for you then you could just click on save what she looks like it did and then getout of there so anyways this is how you change this footer and i want you know i have noill will and i don't want to have any negativity on this video or this channel or anythinglike that i got no ill will towards anybody towards them towards any of that i'm justshowing you how to do something that you have every right to do and they chose to licensethis theme under the gpl and so you're allowed to do this and you can do this all that youwant and there's no problem with doing it
and if i wanted to be evil i could just sayhere's a link to download the footer on branding plug-in i do have the plug-in but i'm notgonna do that because i would feel ethically that that would be wrong even though i haveevery right to do that too i would feel that that's ethically wrong even though would makethis process a lot easier but you still have those annoying notices i don't do that i'mjust showing you how to do what you have every right to do and that's to install this childtheme that you can get on my website and have the footer say what you want this footer tosay that being said i'm not to make any more videos on this theme i'm not can it make anymore videos on this topic this would be the last time you ever you say anything aboutthis theme ever again before you go i have
something for you and before i get into thati wanted to ask you to do something for me to give me a thumbs up on this video and ifyou're not a subscriber click on the subscribe button right beneath me if you have a questionon this video be happy to answer you can also leave a comment or question down below thisvideo hey i put together a course just for you anomaly given to you for free all youhave to do is click on the button right here on the right is called three steps to wordpresssuccess is an awesome course you're gonna love it i would love for you to join in androle as a student in this course makes for watching this video i really appreciated andi do it just for you