Copyright notification

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  manvantura · Member · Apr 29, 2014 at 4:21 pm

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  I want “Copyright Notice: All rights reserved – John Ackerman”
  to appear on each of my blog posts. Do I have to include it in the text?
  Can WordPress provide it?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Apr 30, 2014 at 9:40 pm

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  Hi there!

  We do not offer a way to do that currently. However, you could add that to the footer credits. You can try the following code, but it might mess up the footer formatting with infinite scroll enabled.Go to Appearance > Customize > CSS, delete all the informational text in that window, and paste in the following custom CSS to see what it looks like.

  .site-info:before {
      content: "My Copyright Notice";
      display: block;
      margin-bottom: 10px;
      color: #FFFFFF;
      font-weight: bold;
      letter-spacing: 0.5px;
  }

  If you wish to add after the existing credits, you can instead use the following code.

  .site-info:after {
      content: "My Copyright Notice";
      display: block;
      margin-top: 10px;
      color: #FFFFFF;
      font-weight: bold;
      letter-spacing: 0.5px;
  }

  You can use any of the extra declarations I’ve included (color, font-weight, letter-spacing) or remove them if you do not use them.

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  manvantura · Member · Apr 30, 2014 at 11:47 pm

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  Thanks for your reply.
  What does CSS mean? Would the changes apply to all (past) posts when displayed? How do I relate the #XXXXX# to specific colors? Sorry, not too familiar with code. I cut off after Fortran.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · May 1, 2014 at 1:05 pm

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  No worries!

  CSS changes apply to all pages, so your entire site will show the copyright notice in the footer.

  Here’s a link to CSS Basics, which will be helpful if you haven’t worked with CSS before:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/css-basics/

  And a guide for Editing CSS:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/

  We also have a forum specifically for CSS questions, which you can find here:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

  Here’s a handy tool for finding colors and it gives you the hex code:

  http://colorschemedesigner.com/

  Let me know if you have any more questions!

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  manvantura · Member · May 1, 2014 at 3:38 pm

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  Shawna,
  Followed your instructions, edited CSS,
  applied preview, blog on screen reloaded
  but the block I entered is not there. tried
  both before and after “existing credits”
  I assume you mean the catagories
  and tags at the bottom. The CSS editor
  seems to color certain entries – are these
  error indicators? It does not give any error
  messages. Lastly, your example shows
  the content in quotation marks – are they to
  be included in the code? I have tried all of these
  options, but may have missed the right combination.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · May 2, 2014 at 2:45 pm

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  Whoops! It looks like some of the code I gave you broke it. I’ve changed your code to this:

  #infinite-footer .blog-info a:after {
  	content: "Copyright John Ackerman";
  	display: block;
  	color: #999;
  	font-weight: bold;
  }

  If you check out your CSS panel you can see it now and make changes if you want. For instance, if you want the font to be smaller try adding this:

  font-size: 10px;

  The coloring you see there is totally normal. It’s meant to be helpful. People who code on a regular basis use it to read their code more easily. However there are certain things that mean there’s an error. If you’d like to see that, try putting two # symbols in the color line.

  Let me know if I can help with anything else! :)