In this last video here on customizing the

WordPress admin area, we're going to take a

look at how to customize the text that appears down at the footer of the site.

It says, Thank you for creating with

Word Press, and displays the current version number.

Now the current version number is a helpful

thing be able to have, to see and display.

And since WordPress does not advertise it's nice that you

kick back and show people what software is powering there site.

However, in some places this can

be confusing because people don't even understand

how websites work, or what WordPress is, and how it's different than their site.

And some people just don't need to have

WordPress at all, because you want to avoid

distinguishing exactly what software is being use, because

you wanna hide that for one reason or another.

So, what we're going to do, in order to customize this,

is we're going to use the Custom Admin Footer Text plug-in.

So, let's come in under plugins, and look for the Custom Admin Footer Text plug-in.

We'll go ahead and install it.

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Activate it.

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And then under Settings, we should see the option for Custom Admin Footer Text.

And we have two main settings here.

One is the content that goes on the left.

So this would be Thank you for creating WordPress.

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So you could do your own branding, we could do something for treehouse.

For example.

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The name of the course, and then since these allow links,

we could also do something like link back the Treehouse.

So this is a good place that you could either

put in some general meta information that may be needed.

Maybe you need a link in the bottom, hopefully not.

Or maybe you just want to put your own personal

branding and information, and this plug-in lets you easily do that.

Pretty simple plug-in.

You can do this via code from the, functions.php

file, but we're not going to look at it.

But the hook that you'd be hooking into are what the

Admin Footer Text are, and what's showing up as the version.

So we have these two options, again, you could put HTML into

this and there are some other plug-ins that do some more stuff.

But this should give you a pretty customized dashboard and WordPress admin

area, all the way down to the last little bit of text appearing at the footer.

Congratulations on working your way through to How to

Customize the WordPress Admin Area Course, here on Treehouse.

At this point, you should not only know about different ways

to customize the admin area, and what is possible to customize,

but you should have two different approaches of how to tackle

each one of these, either via a code, or from plug-ins.

I encourage you, if this code is new to you, to

check out some of our more advanced courses, like how to build

themes, or how to build a WordPress plug-in, where we get

a lot more into actions, hooks, filters, and all of that stuff.

However, if all you need to know is how to customize WordPres, and you don't need to

do all the extra coding to get there, then

these plug-ins that we cover are a great solution.

Remember though, that there are a lot of

options for plug-ins for customizing the WordPress admin area.

And we broke this down and covered them in little bits and pieces.

I'd suggest that if customizing the admin area is something

you need to be doing that you look in the, all

of the different plug-ins that are out there, and some of

the plugins that may do multiple things built into one plug-in.

Good luck customizing the WordPress admin area, and keep on learning.