Remove or Customize Default Text and Title Attributes

One of the first customization to the default WordPress theme is to remove the “Powered by WordPress” section in the footer. This is done by editing the footer.php. Be sure to copy the page to notepad or some other means to preserve the original code while you fiddle with it encase something goes wrong and you break it.

There are also title attributes that are embedded in anchor tags throughout the site. Here is one example, found in the index.php file:

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

The code above is the section that will display the title of each post listed on your home page. The title attribute in the anchor tag has the super-obvious text of “Permanent link to …” and then the PHP function that spits out the title. You can modify this and other default text that appears throughout your WP theme.