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Removing Attribution Gadget (Powered By Blogger)

The Attribution gadget is the gadget in the footer that says "Powered By Blogger". If you have tried to remove this then you may of noticed this gadget is locked into you blog.

A lot of people ask are they allowed to remove this from their template. In short yes you are allowed! Although it was meant to give credit to the designers of the template, you can remove it and not get in trouble.  They do go out of their way to make sure you don't remove it,  but their is no agreement or message stating your can not remove it. If you have every used a template or background from a 3rd party site, then you would understand what I am talking about. Their is always some message stating user agreements and part of the message is not to modify the code provided. With Blogger or the Attribution gadget their is not any user agreement on modifying of removing something from your template coding.   So by law without it being clearly stated, they can not prosecute you in anyway for removing this.

Another way to look at this is that this is your blog and sometimes your custom domain bought to provide the content on your site. You have the right to choose what sites you want to give backlinks to. Which with the Attribution gadget you are giving a backlink to the designer of the templates blog or site.


1. Go to Design--> Edit HTML.
2. Expand your Widget Template.
3. Click Ctrl+F for the browser Find bar to pop up.
4. In the Find bar enter  Attribution1

(This will Locate the gadget ID in your template.)

You should see something like this below with the Attribution1 highlighted.
<!-- outside of the include in order to lock Attribution widget -->
      <b:section class='foot' id='footer-3' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='Attribution1' locked='true' title='' type='Attribution'>
<b:includable id='main'>
    <div class='widget-content' style='text-align: center;'>
      <b:if cond='data:attribution != &quot;&quot;'>
        <data:attribution/>
      </b:if>
    </div>

    <b:include name='quickedit'/>
  </b:includable>
</b:widget>
5. Remove everything you see in red, this includes the blue Attribution1. Do not remove the line that is white!

6. Provided you did it correctly when you save your template you will not get any errors.

53 comments:

marto said...

it is not working!!

AiresOFwar said...

What do you mean its not working? Are you getting errors or what is the problem?

Anonymous said...

Make sure you delete the red only and leave the line that is gray!

mike zhang said...

Nice article.

Susheel Seth aka ObAmA said...

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Anonymous said...

Works like a charm. Thanks a million.

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you are great dude

Arjun said...

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Meleca Cristian Production said...

multumesc :X

Irwin Africa said...

Warning: Your new template does not include the following widgets:

Attribution1
Would you like to keep these widgets on your blog or delete them?
Deleting widgets cannot be undone.

AiresOFwar said...

Yeah that is just a warning to ask you if your sure you want to delete the widget.

mub said...

Thank you SO much! I'd tried a few other tweaks and it kept reinserting itself. This seems to have worked. Fingers crossed it continues to work *L*

The Changling said...

You're a genius. Thank you so much for making this information available.

atedeschi said...

all i had to do was remove this line


not sure if blogger code changed since your post, just FYI

AiresOFwar said...

Removing one line will remove the attribution gadget but the reason you need to remove more is because the gadget will come back the min you make changes to your template.

annross said...

thank u...but how to remove the footer

Nicolette said...

Another way is to replace "true" in the code by "false" in order to unlock it and give us the possibility to remove it()and then, go to "Design" and click to edit the gadget "attribution", then remove it.

AiresOFwar said...

Annross you can use this code below to hide the footer in your template. Just input this code in the CSS box in the advanced settings of the template designer. Make sure to hit the space bar after you paste it in the CSS box for it to take effect.

.fauxborder-left .footer-fauxborder-left {
display: none;
}


Nicolette removing it that way will not remove the gadget for good. In the past that worked but now it will no longer work as well. If you were to edit your template after removing it the way you suggested, the gadget would come right back.

D. Karalavicius said...

Maladetc, geras variantas. Man tiko. Didziai Dekingas. Good stuff, Thanks.

Flora said...

Thanks for this! It made the bottom of my blog look much cleaner. I appreciate the tip.

Flora

OSCuniport said...

Thanks man, it worked

K.RAVI TEJA VARMA animator. said...

thanx a lot man

Anonymous said...

Any idea on how to remove the "Header" (Follow, Share, Report Abuse, Next Blog»)

AiresOFwar said...

You can find a tweak on this link to hide the blogger navbar.

Ms. D. said...

THANK YOU!

Cloud said...

It worked like a charm. Thanks! I was wondering how designers were getting this removed and replaced with their own.

OpenTheOwner said...

Fantastic post! Thank you very much :)

Reef said...

I don't want to remove my Attribution widget, but do you have any idea how I might be able to align the text in the Attribution widget to left instead of center?

AiresOFwar said...

Design--> Template Designer--> Advanced--> Add CSS--> Input code below

#Attribution1 {
text-align: center;
}

Hit the space bar after pasting the code in.

Yogi said...

Thank you so much........ Big help!!

Patti said...

Thanks for this!

Céline U.Simugomwa said...

Thank you so much to help me!

Ms Red said...

Beautiful thank you

AMIE HANILY said...

gosh thanks alot ! :D

TheGhurabah said...

If I use this tweak, will it remove my next post/previous post buttons from the bottom? because i have already managed to remove the footer, but those buttons are gone too. Thanks for the help!

AiresOFwar said...

The Attribution gadget and the next/previous post buttons are two totally different elements. One is located in the Footer the other in the Post Footer. If you removed one in which removes another you probably deleted a third of your template its self... assuming it let you save.

TheGhurabah said...

Wow, okay. Is there anyway I can fix it and get my next/previous post buttons back?

Thanks a lot for your response and help.

AiresOFwar said...

You have a code in your template that looks like this below which is what is causing you buttons to be missing. You will need to remove the code from your template.

.feed-links, .blog-feeds {
display: none;
}
.home-link {
display: none;
}
.blog-pager-older-link {
display: none;
}

TheGhurabah said...

Thanks a lot for your help!

L.P.S. said...

Nice ... its work.... thnaks

BlackBerry Expressions said...

thanks for the help. worked like a charm!

vy nin said...

Thanks.

Shafeer Rasheed said...

thanks

after did this one how can we put footer.

i just want put footer like this below

Copyright © Shafee,All Rights Reserved.

Shafeer Rasheed said...

hey
after dis one my footer also gone(sha @ 2011,Al rights reserved.)

i want keep dis sha @ 2011,Al rights reserved without powerd by blogger

is there any possibilities?

if we need to remove attribution we can use dis one .Attribution {display: none}

inn8therapy said...

Thanks.
Text was not quite the same as i seemed to have less. But i deleted what i had and its worked.
Hurray!!!

Sandy said...

Thank-you very much for this. The free blogger template I just installed had placed the Attribution widget in the middle of my sidebar and it was such an eyesore but now its gone! Thanks again.

Admin said...

Thanks

iPhoneBlog said...

soo niiiiiiice
Thank's

AiresOFwar said...

@Shafeer Rasheed

I can not post how to do that through this comment box but if you email me through the contact at the top of this site I will be more then happy to help you with that.

iSchoolSource said...

Thanks so much! Worked like a charm!

tarek said...

thanks :)

pulsa elektrik murah said...

it is very easy to do.thank for sharing with me

cik diba said...

it work...thanx guy

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