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How to remove “Proudly powered by WordPress”

To remove the inscription «Proudly powered by WordPress», which is usually displayed at the bottom of each page, you need to edit the footer.php file of the active theme (for example, if the twentyfifteen theme is active, then /wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/footer.php).

Namely, clear the content between the following tags:

<div class="site-info">
...clear what's here...
</div><!-- .site-info -->

Also noticed that if you use Jetpack with infinite scrolling, then it adds its footer, to open it you will open the file /wp-content/plugins/jetpack/modules/infinite-scroll/infinity.php and delete the line:

<?php echo $credits; ?>

The AMP plug-in’s footer is here – /wp-content/plugins/amp/templates/footer.php.

After updating the theme or Jetpack may have to repeat.

Done.

Installing and Using HTTrack on Linux

HTTrack — an offline browser that allows you to download Web sites to your local computer.

Switch to the root user:
su

The installation command in Ubuntu/Debian:

apt-get install httrack

The installation command in CentOS:

yum install httrack

Create a separate directory and go into it so that when downloading the files are not scattered around the current one:

mkdir sitename
cd sitename

Let’s start downloading the site:

httrack sitename.com

If the operating system is Linux with a graphical interface, then you can install WebHTTrack which has a graphical interface:

apt-get install webhttrack

How to change a WordPress theme through MySQL

To change the WordPress theme via MySQL, first see what theme is specified at the moment, for this, execute the SQL query via phpMyAdmin or MySQL client:

SELECT * FROM wp_options
WHERE option_name = 'template'
OR option_name = 'stylesheet'
OR option_name = 'current_theme';

Next, see what themes are in the /wp-content/themes/ directory.

For example, to change to the standard Twenty Fifteen theme, let’s execute three SQL queries:

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'twentyfifteen' WHERE option_name = 'template';
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'twentyfifteen' WHERE option_name = 'stylesheet';
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'Twenty Fifteen' WHERE option_name = 'current_theme';

How to disable the WordPress plug-in via MySQL

To disable all WordPress plugins via MySQL, you must:

1) Be sure to make a backup copy of the database.

2) Open the phpMyAdmin or MySQL client from the terminal:

mysql -u USER -p

3) Execute the SQL query (if necessary, specify the correct prefix wp_):

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = '' WHERE option_name = 'active_plugins';

After that, all plug-ins will be disabled and you can activate them again one by one in the admin panel.

You can also temporarily disable the plugin by renaming the directory with its files, the plugins are in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

How to remove statistics from the main page phpBB

To remove statistics from the main page of the phpBB forum, comment out certain lines in the template file of the theme used.
Go to the template folder and open the file index_body.html in a text or html editor.
We find the following lines:

<h3>{L_STATISTICS}</h3>
<p>{TOTAL_POSTS} &bull; {TOTAL_TOPICS} &bull; {TOTAL_USERS} &bull; {NEWEST_USER}</p>

And comment them out:

<!-- <h3>{L_STATISTICS}</h3> -->
<!-- <p>{TOTAL_POSTS} &bull; {TOTAL_TOPICS} &bull; {TOTAL_USERS} &bull; {NEWEST_USER}</p> -->

After the changes in the files, you must clear the cache through the control panel or manually.

The list of users online, the legend of moderators and administrators, birthdays can be disabled in the control panel of the forum: “Home” -> “Server load“.