HOW to change the footer in your WordPress admin panel?

There are times when you want others to know that you designed the specific WordPress theme or develop WordPress plugin. So you would put a credit link in the WordPress footer. But if you want to take it even further, you can modify the WordPress Admin panel footer. This simple hack is an extra perk that theme designers or plugin developer can add for their clients or in their free themes or plugins.

This is how the default footer in WordPress admin area looks like:

This can be changed and you can add some useful links to be displayed in footer.

To accomplish this, simply open your theme’s function.php file or in plugin file and paste the following code:

function update_admin_footer_text( $footer_text ) {

  // Update Footer admin only on ES pages
  if ( ES()->is_es_admin_screen() ) {

    $wordpress_url = 'https://www.wordpress.org';
    $icegram_url   = 'https://www.icegram.com';

    $footer_text = sprintf( __( '<span id="footer-thankyou">Thank you for creating with <a href="%s" target="_blank">WordPress</a> | Email Subscribers Version <b>%s</b> | Developed by <a href="%s" target="_blank">Icegram</a></span>', 'email-subscribers' ), $wordpress_url, ES_PLUGIN_VERSION, $icegram_url );
  }

  return $footer_text;

}

add_filter( 'admin_footer_text', 'update_admin_footer_text' );

Here is how the end result would look like:

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