Thread: Remove Footer Links from newwpthemes

Hi all,
at newwpthemes.com they got really great themes and i just found a perfect theme for my project, but sadly they got 4 advertising link sin the footer which cant be removed. If i remove them or only change one letter from the footer Text, my main domain is redirected to mydomain.com/index.php?theme_license=true
where a black text tells me:
"This theme is released free for use under creative commons licence. All links in the footer should remain intact. These links are all family friendly and will not hurt your site in any way. This great theme is brought to you for free by these supporters."

Does anyone knows how to remove those links?
thanks a lot Unknown1111

hm any idea would help me

often it's simply in the footer.php but as their disclaimer tells, it really doesn't hurt ;-)

pah it isnt even possible to make the links nofollow, so they hurt a lot :P

Just put some black tape on the bottom of your screen and they won't be visible.

The footer is encrypted with code in the header.php file...you can decrypt the code using this free tool: Base 64 Decoder

Remove the functions that are requiring the footer.

the decrypted function in the functions.php is:
if (!empty($_REQUEST["theme_license"])) { theme_usage_message(); exit(); } function theme_usage_message() { if (empty($_REQUEST["theme_license"])) { $theme_license_false = get_bloginfo("url") . "/index.php?theme_license=true"; echo ""; exit(); } else { echo ("This theme is released free for use under creative commons licence. All links in the footer should remain intact. These links are all family friendly and will not hurt your site in any way. This great theme is brought to you for free by these supporters."); } }

In the header the decrypted part is:
function functions_file_exists() { if (!file_exists(dirname(__file__) . "/functions.php") || !function_exists("theme_usage_message") ) { echo ("This theme is released free for use under creative commons licence. All links in the footer should remain intact. These links are all family friendly and will not hurt your site in any way. This great theme is brought to you for free by these supporters."); die; } } functions_file_exists();

can anyone help me with changing it?

Just an update - the encrypted code for the footer is in "functions.php". Decrypt the code and change everything in that code to be the same as whatever you want in "footer.php"

Example of changed footer with a newwpthemes.com theme:
http://blacktiedrivers.com/wordpress/

Hi nativepro,

Very helpful post, but I still don't have the idea to change the code, because I am not a programmer.

Could you tell me what code should I change in the function.php :

if (!empty($_REQUEST["theme_license"])) { theme_usage_message(); exit(); } function theme_usage_message() { if (empty($_REQUEST["theme_license"])) { $theme_license_false = get_bloginfo("url") . "/index.php?theme_license=true"; echo ""; exit(); } else { echo ("This theme is released free for use under creative commons licence. All links in the footer should remain intact. These links are all family friendly and will not hurt your site in any way. This great theme is brought to you for free by these supporters."); } }

thanks

nativepro, can u show what you did with the theme that got the footer encryption removed?