I got some templetes from premiumblogger but beside credit to the author their is lot of other links in the footer how can I remove them, beside can you suggest any better site where i can learn ups and down of wordpress templete coding so i can be on my own theme i mean full control please help
You might want to check out the Weaver theme for @ordpress, the free version lets you design websites without really coding.
agree with devtard if you want to remove the footer link better ask permission from the theme dev first
Yea it's unethical to remove them..and also some themes, fi you remove the credit footer it will mess up the whole t heme bc i tried it before. good luck
If you've paid for the theme - there is no need to ask anyone's permissions. Your payment means you own the theme and do not owe a developer free ad space. If it is free, please leave the links in the theme because that is a fair trade between users and developers.
I would look at the source html code in the browser. There should be some comments with regard to licenses and link retention. footer.php would be the place to remove them using your WP control panel to get to the source. Of course, if you install an update to the theme they might all come back. Rather than removing them, just comment them out in php or the html in case you want to restore them later. You could also change the font color for them to match the background color. You would not be removing them, but no one would see them.
If that's what it says in the contract. It can also say that all you're paying for is the right to use the theme, and that you're specifically prohibited from modifying it in any way. And modifying a theme you don't have the right to modify is a copyright violation. Your host can receive a takedown notice if you do that, and your site will be taken down.
Well, if the theme is licensed under GPL the buyer can do what they want with it. OT: According to WP all derivated software (plugins, themes) should be licensed under GPL2 so even if people create their own EULAs, users don't really have to accept them in order to use the software.
There's no 100% firm legal standard in US copyright law for a derived work, and that's even more true for software, but if you chop out all the code the author wrote, and there's nothing left (which is pretty much the case for templates and plugins), it would probably pass the "not derived" test in any court. (About all you'd be left with in a template is a list of variable names, no code.) So the template can be released under GPL2, or for pay not to be modified at all, or under any other EULA. While it's true that most people totally ignore the EULA for all software they run, putting a template that's had its copyright notice removed on public display on the web is just asking for at least a takedown notice, if not a suit for damages.
As for take down notice what if i modify the whole theme colours fonts background A to z so no one would recognize it is there theme and also remove and widgets etc that pull there data and insert some thing I made then take out the link what do you say about that where is the best place to learn all this any ideas
And how may i understand that the theme is GP or Gp2 where it is mentioned on the theme footer or withing the codes please mention so I may have a look
As for the author link it is fine but I am not comfortable with the other links can i make them no follow or create a redirect to bitly or something
By the time you learn all that (programming, PHP, HTML, graphic design) it will be easier to create your own theme than to modify someone else's.