Where to find text in wordpress? - php

Question

I am trying to make changes to a site that is in Wordpress and the widget that I thing have the info I want to change a blank. I found the footer.php code in the editor put need help where the copyright text is. Where the code says ($data['copyright_text']), where do I find the copyright text?
<?php
global $data;
?>
<?php
if ( empty( $data['footer_show'] ) || (!empty( $data['footer_show'] ) && $data['footer_show'] == 'yes') ) { ?>
<footer id="footer">
<div class="container">
<?php
if ( !empty ( $data['footer_row1_widget_positions'] ) ) {
if ( (!empty ( $data['footer_row1_show'] ) && $data['footer_row1_show'] == 'yes' ) || empty ( $data['footer_row1_show'] ) ) {
echo '<div class="row">';
$number_of_columns = key( json_decode ( stripslashes ( $data['footer_row1_widget_positions'] ) ) );
$columns_array = json_decode ( stripslashes ( $data['footer_row1_widget_positions'] ),true );
for ($i = 1; $i <= $number_of_columns; $i++) {
echo '<div class="span'.$columns_array[$number_of_columns][0][$i-1].'">';
if ( !dynamic_sidebar('Footer row 1 - widget '.$i.'') ) : endif;
echo '</div>';
}
echo '</div><!-- end row -->';
}
}
if ( !empty ( $data['footer_row2_widget_positions'] ) ) {
if ( (!empty ( $data['footer_row2_show'] ) && $data['footer_row2_show'] == 'yes' ) || empty ( $data['footer_row2_show'] ) ) {
echo '<div class="row">';
$number_of_columns = key( json_decode ( stripslashes ( $data['footer_row2_widget_positions'] ) ) );
$columns_array = json_decode ( stripslashes ( $data['footer_row2_widget_positions'] ),true );
for ($i = 1; $i <= $number_of_columns; $i++) {
echo '<div class="span'.$columns_array[$number_of_columns][0][$i-1].'">';
if ( !dynamic_sidebar('Footer row 2 - widget '.$i.'') ) : endif;
echo '</div>';
}
echo '</div><!-- end row -->';
}
}
?>
<div class="row">
<div class="span12">
<div class="bottom fixclear">
<?php
if ( isset( $data['footer_social_icons'] ) && is_array( $data['footer_social_icons'] ) && !empty ( $data['footer_social_icons'][0]['footer_social_icon'] ) ) {
$icon_class = '';
if( $data['footer_which_icons_set'] == 'colored' ) {
$icon_class = 'colored';
}
echo '<ul class="social-icons '.$icon_class.' fixclear">';
echo '<li class="title">'.__('GET SOCIAL', THEMENAME ).'</li>'; // Translate
foreach ( $data['footer_social_icons'] as $key=>$icon ){
$link = '';
$target = '';
if ( isset ( $icon['footer_social_link'] ) && is_array ( $icon['footer_social_link'] )) {
$link = $icon['footer_social_link']['url'];
$target = 'target="'.$icon['footer_social_link']['target'].'"';
}
echo '<li class="'.$icon['footer_social_icon'].'"><a href="" '.$target.'>'.$icon['footer_social_title'].'</a></li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
}
?>
<?php if( $data['copyright_text'] || $data['footer_logo'] ) { ?>
<div class="copyright">
<?php
if( $data['footer_logo'] ) {
echo '<img src="'.$data['footer_logo'].'" alt="" />';
}
if( $data['copyright_text'] ) {
echo '<p>'.stripslashes($data['copyright_text']).'</p>';
}
?>
</div><!-- end copyright -->
<?php } ?>
</div><!-- end bottom -->
</div>
</div><!-- end row -->
</div>
</footer>
<?php } ?>
</div><!-- end page_wrapper -->
<?php echo __('TOP', THEMENAME ); ?> <?php // Translate ?>
<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>

Answer 1

If you just want to see what the current copyright text is, you can stick echo $data['copyright_text']; anywhere after declaring global $data;.
To delete it, you can do $data['copyright_text'] = null; or $data['copyright_text'] = '';

Answer 2

Be careful of changing your theme like this. If you have a theme that has a commercial License, you may get into trouble for removing the Licencees copyright and trademark.
If you've created the theme yourself however, then it should be placed in the footer file in a place that is appropriate to the design of the theme.