Storefront Theme: Edit or Remove Footer Credits

The Storefront theme developed by WooCommerce/Automattic comes with default footer credits content: “Built with Storefront & WooCommerce | Privacy Policy | Copyright Website 2020“.

Thankfully, this default content comes with “hooks”, so it’s possible to override such behavior without touching core files or duplicating templates. So, here are a few snippets you can use to edit or remove the Storefront theme copyright content. Enjoy!

On top you can see the default Storefront theme copyright content. It features a first line with the website name, and a second line that links to woocommerce.com. In the red rectangle you see the HTML that is generating such content.

PHP Snippet 1: Completely Remove the Storefront Theme Copyright (Credits)

/**
 * @snippet       Remove Storefront Theme Copyright
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli, BusinessBloomer.com
 * @testedwith    WooCommerce 4.6
 * @community     https://businessbloomer.com/club/
 */

add_action( 'wp', 'bbloomer_remove_storefront_credits' );

function bbloomer_remove_storefront_credits() {
   remove_action( 'storefront_footer', 'storefront_credit', 20 );
}

PHP Snippet 2: Remove the Storefront Theme Copyright Link “Built with Storefront” Only

/**
 * @snippet       Remove Storefront Theme Copyright Link
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli, BusinessBloomer.com
 * @testedwith    WooCommerce 4.6
 * @community     https://businessbloomer.com/club/
 */

add_filter( 'storefront_credit_link', '__return_false' );

PHP Snippet 3: Remove the Storefront Theme Copyright Privacy Policy Link Only

/**
 * @snippet       Remove Storefront Theme Copyright Privacy
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli, BusinessBloomer.com
 * @testedwith    WooCommerce 4.6
 * @community     https://businessbloomer.com/club/
 */

add_filter( 'storefront_privacy_policy_link', '__return_false' );

PHP Snippet 4: Remove the Storefront Theme Copyright Link “Built with Storefront” + Privacy Policy

/**
 * @snippet       Remove Storefront Theme Copyright Link + Privacy
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli, BusinessBloomer.com
 * @testedwith    WooCommerce 4.6
 * @community     https://businessbloomer.com/club/
 */

add_filter( 'storefront_credit_links_output', '__return_empty_string' );

PHP Snippet 5: Remove the Storefront Theme Footer Text “Copyright Website 2020” Only

/**
 * @snippet       Remove Storefront Theme Copyright Text
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli, BusinessBloomer.com
 * @testedwith    WooCommerce 4.6
 * @community     https://businessbloomer.com/club/
 */

add_filter( 'storefront_copyright_text', '__return_empty_string' );

PHP Snippet 6: Edit the Storefront Theme Footer Text “Copyright Website 2020”

/**
 * @snippet       Edit Storefront Theme Copyright Text
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli, BusinessBloomer.com
 * @testedwith    WooCommerce 4.6
 * @community     https://businessbloomer.com/club/
 */

add_filter( 'storefront_copyright_text', 'bbloomer_edit_storefront_copyright_text' );

function bbloomer_edit_storefront_copyright_text() {
   $text = 'Copyright 2011-' . date( 'Y' ) . ' by Rodolfo Melogli';
   return $text;
}

Where to add custom code?

You should place custom PHP in functions.php and custom CSS in style.css of your child theme: where to place WooCommerce customization?

This code still works, unless you report otherwise. To exclude conflicts, temporarily switch to the Storefront theme, disable all plugins except WooCommerce, and test the snippet again: WooCommerce troubleshooting 101

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6 thoughts on “Storefront Theme: Edit or Remove Footer Credits”

Opako
February 23, 2023

Thanks a lot for this text, I was looking for it, it works ok

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  February 28, 2023
  
  Welcome!
  
  Reply
winolodotpl
February 8, 2021

Very good text, I was looking for a long time why it cannot be changed in this template

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  February 18, 2021
  
  Cool
  
  Reply

Black Sun

December 20, 2020

AAaand the turbo version: add widget area to footer credits:

//remove footer credits 
function storefront_remove_footer_credits() {
	remove_action( 'storefront_footer', 'storefront_credit', 20 );
}
add_action('template_redirect', 'storefront_remove_footer_credits');

//make footer credits widget area
function dexter_storefront_footer_credits_widget_area_init() {
 
    register_sidebar( array(
        'name'          => 'Footer credits',
        'id'            => 'storefront-footer-credits-widget-area',
        'before_widget' => '<div class="storefront-footer-credits-widget-area-widget">',
        'after_widget'  => '</div>',
        'before_title'  => '<h2 class="storefront-footer-credits-widget-area-title">',
        'after_title'   => '</h2>',
    ) );
 
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'dexter_storefront_footer_credits_widget_area_init' );

function dexter_storefront_footer_credits_widget_area() {
	dynamic_sidebar( 'storefront-footer-credits-widget-area' );
}

add_action( 'storefront_footer', 'dexter_storefront_footer_credits_widget_area', 20 );

Rodolfo Melogli
December 21, 2020

Cool stuff

Reply

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