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Joomla 3.x. How to edit copyright if it is coded in template files

Carey Burns April 7, 2015
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Our Support team is ready to present you a new tutorial that shows how to edit the footer copyright in Joomla 3.x if it is coded in theme files:

Joomla 3.x. How to edit copyright if it is coded in template files

  1. Please navigate to templates/themeXXXX/html/mod_footer folder on your server.

  2. Open custom.php file for editing.

  3. You will see the Privacy Policy code there, it will look like the following:

    	 <span class="siteName"><?php echo $sitename. ' </span> '. date('Y'); ?> © <a href="index.php/privacy-policy"><?php echo JText::_('TPL_PRIVACY_POLICY'); ?></a>

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    • echo $sitename.

      – displays name of your site;

    • date('Y')

      – outputs the current date (year);

    • echo JText::_('TPL_PRIVACY_POLICY')

      – displays the value for the TPL_PRIVACY_POLICY language constant.

  4. To edit the Privacy Policy text (TPL_PRIVACY_POLICY constant value), open Extensions > Language manager in your Joomla admin panel, click on Overrides:

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  5. Click on New button to create a new override.

  6. Copy TPL_PRIVACY_POLICY to the Constant field, add your text to the Text field, click on Save when you are done:

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  7. Check the result on your site.

Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:

Joomla 3.x. How to edit copyright if it is coded in template files

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