Decrypt encrypted WordPress footer.php – Remove Free WP Themes Protection
While searching for free themes on Google I found that many of them have encrypted footer links.
Eg. Footer.php file contains some encrypted data as follows:
I recommend you guys to show some love for freelancers/coders of that theme. But if you really want to decrypt it then I have one short and sweet trick for you. No programming knowledge is required!
Name – Decrypt encrypted footer.php file
Skill Required – Basic
Time – Max 1 minute
Procedure -
- Open index.php file of your theme.
- Scroll down and find <?php get_footer(); ?> this code or you can use Ctlr+F to find it quickly.
- Now you have to add simple codes on top of it and another at bottom.
- <?php get_footer(); ?> should look like this
These codes are:
You can write anything you want between <!– and –>
Now our code would look something like this.
- Now update index.php file and visit your homepage ( blog )
- Once you open the site in your browser then view source code ( Mozilla – Ctlr+U ). Scroll down or use Ctlr+F to find our Footer Starts Here line and copy all the code from Footer Starts Here to Footer Ends Here. This data is nothing but our original data of footer.php
- Paste it in footer.php file. Hit update and you are done!