Copyright line
Appearance → Customize → Footer.
The copyright line is assembled from up to three pieces. Each has its own control, and the separators only appear between pieces that are actually there.
| Control | Default |
|---|---|
| Copyright text | All rights reserved. |
| Add current year before copyright? | on |
| Keep credit text to Owldraft? | on |
With all three on you get:
© 2026. All rights reserved. Built with Rural Blog
Copyright text
A textarea, and basic HTML is allowed, so you can put a link in it:
© <a href="/about/">Your Name</a>. Some rights reserved.
Common variations:
All rights reserved.
Licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>.
Words are mine. Photos are mine unless credited.
Empty the box and the line simply drops that piece — the year stands on its own, with no dangling separator.
The year
Add current year before copyright? prints © 2026, updating itself every
January. Nothing to maintain.
Turn it off if your copyright text already contains a year, or a range like
2019–2026, which you would then be maintaining by hand.
The theme credit
Keep credit text to Owldraft? prints Built with Rural Blog, linked.
The theme is GPL and you are free to remove it — the licence does not require it and nothing about the theme changes if you do. The control asks nicely because a new theme studio with no reputation is genuinely helped by it, and that is the whole of the argument.
Turn it off in one click if you would rather not have it.
Turning the whole line off
Switch off all three — text emptied, year off, credit off — and no copyright block is printed at all. Not an empty box the footer still spaces around; the element is absent and the footer closes up.
Styling
The line takes the footer’s own text colour from the footer skin or the pickers under it.
Related
- Footer layout — Inline puts the copyright on the left half
- Footer menu