My WordPress UI Hacks

There are a couple of things I do not like with the default WordPress UI, namely the “Featured Post” header:

and the “Proudly powered by WordPress” quote at the bottom of the page.

Here are the hacks I use to remove them

1)

  1. Featured Post:
    1. Appearance > Theme Editor > content.php
    2. HTML Comment out the block :
     <!--<?php if ( is_sticky() && is_home() && ! is_paged() ) : ?>
    <div class="featured-post">
        <?php _e( 'Featured post', 'twentytwelve' ); ?>
    </div>
    <?php endif; ?>-->
  1. Proudly powered by WordPress:
    1. Appearance > Theme Editor > footer.php
    2. HTML Comment out the div class=”site-info” block :
    <!--<div class="site-info">
        <?php do_action( 'twentytwelve_credits' ); ?>
        <?php
        if ( function_exists( 'the_privacy_policy_link' ) ) {
            the_privacy_policy_link( '', '<span role="separator" aria-hidden="true"></span>' );
        }
        ?>
        <a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'https://wordpress.org/', 'twentytwelve' ) ); ?>" class="imprint" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Semantic Personal Publishing Platform', 'twentytwelve' ); ?>">
            <?php
            /* translators: %s: WordPress */
            printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentytwelve' ), 'WordPress' );
            ?>
        </a>
    </div>--><!-- .site-info -->