Removing Attribution Gadget (Powered By Blogger)

The Attribution gadget is the gadget in the footer that says "Powered By Blogger". If you have tried to remove this then you may of noticed this gadget is locked into you blog.


A lot of people ask are they allowed to remove this from their template. In short yes you are allowed! Although it was meant to give credit to the designers of the template, you can remove it and not get in trouble. They do go out of their way to make sure you don't remove it, but their is no agreement or message stating your can not remove it. If you have every used a template or background from a 3rd party site, then you would understand what I am talking about. Their is always some message stating user agreements and part of the message is not to modify the code provided. With Blogger or the Attribution gadget their is not any user agreement on modifying of removing something from your template coding. So by law without it being clearly stated, they can not prosecute you in anyway for removing this.


Another way to look at this is that this is your blog and sometimes your custom domain bought to provide the content on your site. You have the right to choose what sites you want to give backlinks to. Which with the Attribution gadget you are giving a backlink to the designer of the templates blog or site.


1. Go to Design--> Edit HTML.

2. Expand your Widget Template.


3. Click Ctrl+F for the browser Find bar to pop up.

4. In the Find bar enter Attribution1


(This will Locate the gadget ID in your template.)


You should see something like this below with the Attribution1 highlighted.

<!-- outside of the include in order to lock Attribution widget -->

<b:section class='foot' id='footer-3' showaddelement='no'>

<b:widget id='Attribution1' locked='true' title='' type='Attribution'>


<b:includable id='main'>

<div class='widget-content' style='text-align: center;'>

<b:if cond='data:attribution != &quot;&quot;'>

<data:attribution/>

</b:if>


</div>



<b:include name='quickedit'/>

</b:includable>

</b:widget>

5. Remove everything you see in red, this includes the blue Attribution1. Do not remove the line that is white!


6. Provided you did it correctly when you save your template you will not get any errors.