There are two ideas which can help you Remove links from WordPress theme footer.
There are a lot free wordpress to use, but more and more wordpress themes are Encrypted Themes, Yes, for users, most of them do not want to left other irrelevant links on their websites, while the authors want to leave some websites links for seo, then more wordpress theme authors Encrypted their free wordpress Themes, are there any ways to remove the links on the wordpress footer?
I have post an articles on how to delete the wordpress footer links, but for some Encrypted wordprss Themes, the idea can not work. Here is another way to remove the links under the wordpress theme footer. Decode.Hopefully this will help some people, and avoid posts to the forum about encrypted theme files. Use these tools to decode them yourself.

Better yet, avoid encrypted themes entirely. They’re always malicious in some fashion. There is no legitimate reason for a theme author to encrypt a theme file.

This page will let you decode the encryption that seems most commonplace, the one that looks like $o=whatever:
http://ottodestruct.com/decoder.php

I based the interface for it off of this one, which will decode the type of encryption that starts with $_F=__FILE__:
http://www.tareeinternet.com/scripts/byterun.php

Another one is here, for those that look like eval(gzinflate(base64_decode('...')));:
http://www.tareeinternet.com/scripts/decrypt.php

This one can decode the codes like this eval(base64_decode
http://www.tareeinternet.com/scripts/base.html
Type in the message you want to encode in base64, or paste base64 encoded text into the text field, select Encode or Decode,
and click the button!
for example: the Encrypted code:
eval(base64_decode('ZnVuY3Rpb24gdGhlbWVfZm
9vdGVyX3QoKSB7IGlmICghKGZ1bmN0aW9uX2V4aXN0cygi
Y2hlY2tfdGhlbWVfZm9vdGVyIikgJiYgZnVuY3Rpb25fZXhpc3
RzKCJjaGVja190aGVtZV9oZWFkZXIiKSkpIHsgdGhlbWVfdXN
hZ2VfbWVzc2FnZSgpOyBkaWU7IH0gfSB0aGVtZV9mb290ZXJfdCgpOw==')); ?>
you can put the ZnVuY3Rpb24gdGhlbWVfZm9vdGVyX3QoKSB7IGlmICghKGZ1bmN0aW9uX
2V4aXN0cygiY2hlY2tfdGhlbWVfZm9vdGVyIikgJiYgZnVuY3Rpb25fZX
hpc3RzKCJjaGVja190aGVtZV9oZWFkZXIiKSkpIHsgdGhlbWVfdXNhZ2
VfbWVzc2FnZSgpOyBkaWU7IH0gfSB0aGVtZV9mb290ZXJfdCgpOw== in the text field, and you can get the result:
function theme_footer_t() { if (!(function_exists("check_theme_footer") && function_exists("check_theme_header"))) { theme_usage_message(); die; } } theme_footer_t();
copy the orignal codes to your wordpress theme files.

Hope this can help you delete the wordpress Encrypted footer.php links.

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