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I've inherited a Concrete 5 website and my customer ha asked me to remove the old developer's credits at the bottom

I'm very new to C5, I'm used to WordPress and Drupal.

I've search the site, ran a search on the database and files and can't find the text anywhere to change it. Could it be coming from something external?

Some help would be great
 
siton replied on at Permalink Reply
siton
Must of the time you find the credit in the footer.php // footer_bottom.php etc (Inside folder like "elements" "pages" etc).

Most of the time this is static html markup (not in the database table) so you need to change this line by hardcore (get inside the file and change/remove the text).

Your best friend is FIND: "control+f" (open all theme files). 1-2 minutes you will find this line.

For more help tell about your theme.
tefnut replied on at Permalink Reply
As I said, I have done a search on the database and files of the whole website and not found this.

I can't even find the theme.

Hence me asking for help
siton replied on at Permalink Reply
siton
"i cant even find the theme" - so you dont search for the correct files

Look at:
webroot/application/themes/some-name-of-theme

Converting an HTML Template to a Concrete5 Theme:
http://documentation.concrete5.org/developers/designing-for-concret...
tefnut replied on at Permalink Reply
Sorry maybe I wasn't clear.

I have ran a text search on ALL of the files and database the text and it has come up with nothing. This is on a local backup of the WHOLE website on my PC, it did not find any text in any of the files which matches the text I am trying to change.

Which would include the files you've mentioned.

Thanks
WillemAnchor replied on at Permalink Reply
WillemAnchor
Maybe you can provide an url of the site ?

If it's not external (you can check if it retrieves any data from elsewhere), then it must be in the files, or in the database.

What version of concrete5 is it anyways ?
It most likely is in a theme file (application or packages map), but possibly in the db (perhaps some stack or global area ?)

Try to not search for the whole phrase, but only search for part of it.
siton replied on at Permalink Reply
siton
If this is "vars" you will never find this text. AGAIN !! start from finding the file of the footer than look at the code. Look her you have endless ways to print data:
http://www.webli.us/cheatsheet/doku.php...

Or it could be text put inside "content block"

Write "<p>hello world</p> - paste to the footer (see the change? ok. This is the area of your code you need to search for)

Also this code is for global area (footer element most of the time are global):
<?php
         $a = new GlobalArea('footer');
         $a->display($c);
      ?>

Otherwise its impossible to help you

"hello world" is very important and "stupid" step (i saw problem when the editor change local site but look at the host site, edit the wrong folder, the wrong theme files and so on)