By the end of this video the bottom strip of your site says what you want it to say — or disappears entirely, wrapper markup included.
Two settings feed one strip
The bar at the very bottom of a W3CSS Theme page is built from two independent theme settings. Enter Copyright Text, in the Copyright section, fills the left half. Show/Hide Credit Text, a checkbox in the separate Credit section, fills the right half. The template wraps the whole strip in a condition on both, so it is rendered only when at least one of them has something to show. Clear the text and untick the box and there is no empty container left behind.
Doing it
- Open
/admin/appearance/settings/drupal8_w3css_theme. - Expand Copyright - W3CSS Theme and either rewrite or empty Enter Copyright Text.
- Expand Credit - W3CSS Theme and untick Show/Hide Credit Text if you do not want the maintainer credit.
- Save the form and rebuild caches if the old text lingers on a cached page.
The %year% token
The shipped default is Copyright © %year% Company Name - All rights reserved. That %year% is not decoration: at render time the template substitutes the current year, so the footer is correct every January without anyone touching it. Keep the token, change the company name. Any other text is printed exactly as typed.
Two things worth knowing
- The credit wording itself is fixed in the template — the checkbox switches it on and off, and changing the sentence means overriding
page.html.twigin a sub-theme. - The strip is coloured
w3-theme-d5by default, and the Copyright field in Advanced Site Colors adds your own classes to it.
Before you delete a copyright notice entirely, be deliberate about it: it costs one line and it is the cheapest ownership signal a site has. Full settings reference on the W3CSS Theme project page; the same pair of settings carries over into Solo if you later move a Drupal 10.1 or newer site across.
Prefer a sub-theme configured properly the first time? That is Drupal theming — or get in touch and describe the site.
