Remove the “Powered by Joomla” message on your site

Written by on December 5, 2009 in Core tips - 3 Comments

Easily one of the most asked questions in Joomla existence. This is probably one of the easiest ones to change as well.

While it is best to leave this message on your site as it helps spread the Joomla love, sometimes your clients do not want to partake in the love fest.

In Joomla 1.5.xx if you want to remove the footer, go to Extensions > Module Manager and unpublish the footer module. If you want to change the text, you need to get out your FTP client and do some changes.
Go to the language directory, go to the folder of the language you want to change, (in our case English), then find the mod_footer.ini. Search for “powered by” and change the text to whatever you want your text in the footer to be.

In some cases the template you are using might have it hard-coded in, or done differently. In this circumstance you should ask the developer of the template you are using.

About the Author

Matthew King is the excessively caffeinated head of customer service and system administrator for JoomlaJunkie. He loves paintball and dry humor. Matt also sells web hosting and does website design at ColumbusGEEK.com. He is based in Columbus, Ohio (USA).

3 Comments on "Remove the “Powered by Joomla” message on your site"

  1. Daniel Taghioff December 9, 2009 at 10:19 am · Reply

    You can also use the Custom Footer module to replace the standard one, and then you can choose the text.

  2. Norway TV May 6, 2010 at 5:00 am · Reply

    I really don’t think that it would be a good idea to remove the “powered by joomla” message from one’s website. I personally believe the credit should go to the real technology owners.

  3. Davide Ganz September 23, 2011 at 8:21 am · Reply

    If you don’t find a solution in this way look at this Tip:

    http://howtojoomla15.blogspot.com/2011/09/remove-powered-by-joomla-valid-xhtml.html

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