How to Quickly Remove "Powered By Shopify"

You’ve probably noticed that your online store has a “Powered by Shopify” line in the footer of your website, which directs your customers to the Shopify website.

And you probably want to remove it so that your customers’ attention is focused only on your brand.

In this article, I’ll show you how to find and remove this line, and how to replace it with important links.

Contents

• Log in to Your Shopify Account
• First Approach: Update Theme Content
• Second Approach: Edit Theme Code

Log in to Your Shopify Account

First, log in to your Shopify store admin.

First Approach: Update Theme Content

Once you’re in the Shopify Admin, look at the left sidebar and click Online Store. This is where you’ll find all your themes.

Now, let’s edit the default theme content by following these steps:

1. Click on the three dots next to your theme.

2. Select Edit default theme content. You are now in the “General theme content” section.

3. In the Filter box, type “powered” to find all instances where “Powered by Shopify” appears.

By default, “Powered by Shopify” appears in the store footer and on the password page (if your store is password-protected). We’re only going to remove “Powered by Shopify” in the footer of your store.

4. Go to “Powered by Shopify” in the results (Links) and replace it with a single space to remove it. Click Save.

5. Then return to the Online Store and review the changes.

“Powered by Shopify” should now be gone.

Second Approach: Edit Theme Code

If the text is still visible, we’ll need to remove it by editing the theme code:

1. Go back to Online Store, click on the three dots and select Edit Code.

2. In the search bar (top left), type “footer” and open footer.liquid from the results.

3. Press Cmd+F (on Mac) or Ctrl+F (on Windows) to search for “powered” in the file.

4. Find and remove this line (in your theme it can be a different line but it must contain ”{{ powered_by_link }}”):

<small class="copyright__content">{{ powered_by_link }}</small>

Or, if you want to replace it with a custom link (e.g. your social media), modify it like this:

<small class="copyright__content">
  <a href="https://your-brand-profile/" target="_blank">Your Brand</a>
</small>

You can also replace it with other useful links such as privacy policy, terms and conditions, your blog, etc.

For example, I will put our website “https://boxiapps.com” instead of the powered by link.

5. Click Save to apply the changes, then on the top left click Preview Store.

The “Powered by Shopify” text has been removed and replaced with your custom link!

Your store now has a more professional look and feel, and nothing will distract your customers from shopping in your store.