How to Remove Free Weebly Footer and Customize it (With Video | Updated 2025)4 min read
Ever wondered how to remove free Weebly footer message and customize it? Well, as you might know, free websites created with Weebly display the following footer message “Create a free website with Weebly” or “Powered by Weebly” in every page.
All free accounts under Weebly have this footer messages. It’s Weebly’s own ad. It can only be removed by upgrading to a higher Weebly plan.
Well, the good part is, with the access for editing source HTML anyone, including those who have free accounts, still it is possible to remove or customize the message shown in the footer area in your Weebly website.
How to Remove Free Weebly Footer and Customize it
We have deleted the old method and updated this article as per recent Weebly updates.
Remove Weebly Footer as per Recent Weebly Update — April 2019
Weebly has pushed a new update as of late February 2019 to get the footer styles dynamically to make it visible again. Here’s how to hide it:
Login to your Weebly Site Editor and paste the following code in Settings > SEO > Footer Code.
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Here’s also a video that shows how to remove “Powered by Weebly” on a FREE Weebly website (Updated 2019).
If the above code didn’t work for your website, try this one:
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Remove Weebly Footer as per Recent Weebly Update — May 2019
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Remove Weebly Footer as per Recent Weebly Update — July 2019
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Remove Weebly Footer as per Recent Weebly Update — January 2024
This is the most recent working solution tested as of March 2020. Shout-out to Raul Cabestany who has worked to provide us this code.
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We hope this article helped you learn how to remove the free Weebly footer message from your website.
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74 Comments
Nice it works… But saddly I can see the Powered by Weebly on the Mobile version… How do i get rid of that also?
We’re trying to find a new workaround for this. Will update this article ASAP.
Followed all of these steps about 6 months ago. It worked perfectly until I logged in today & found the footer banner back. Updated & edited the revised source code, did exactly as above, and it doesn’t work. :( Help?
Hi, We’re trying to find a new workaround for this. Will update this article ASAP.
removed the pop up sign up footer however the “powered by weebly” remains. couldnt find out why. help huhu
it works but if you have the same problem as me where the “powered by weebly” remains or the footer is still visible in mobile view, you can try this one. but please make sure to always have a backup code for the original that way you wont mess it up.
so after an hour of research about attributes and trial and error you literally almost have to rewrite the code. idk how i did it but somehow i made it work. was able to remove the clickable link too. this is the code edits i came up with. kudos to this website btw for keeping it updated.
Is it working for you? If yes, could you share the code here? Ty.
As of today, it doesn’t appear to be working anymore.
Hi Nate, we’re trying to find a new workaround for this. Will update this article ASAP.
idk how :) helpfull
This is no longer effective. Please update. Thank you.
Hi Danielle, we’re working to update this article. Thank you.
For me the pop up goes away but the powered by weebly remains :/
Hi Jeffrey, we’re working on updating this article ASAP.
It’s not working for me either
Hi Jackie, sorry to hear that. We’re working on updating this tutorial ASAP! Thank you.
Powered by weebly pop up came back and this updated method didn’t work unfortunately… any idea?
Hi Camille, we will update this article as soon as possible.
they changed it so it wont work. Any updates?
Hi Gene, we will update this article as soon as possible. Thank you!
Me too. Unfortunately a new update override this fantastic method. We waiting for some news.
We will update this article as soon as possible. Thank you!
Hi, we’re working to find a new workaround to get rid of Weebly footer. We will try to update this tutorial as soon as possible and then notify all of you via email. Thank you
I was using this code
document.addEventListener(‘DOMContentLoaded’, function() {
var element = document.getElementById(“weebly-footer-signup-container”);
element.parentNode.removeChild(element);
}, false);
I juat pasted this code in the Settings/ SEO / Footer Code.
It worked perfectly untill 6th March the footer #POWERED BY WEEBLY.. was back
I am facing a lot of problem, as i serve my customers on the site, i request the team to please come up with a solution ASAP, cause many users are facing the footer tag issue..
change it to weebly-footer-signup-container-v3
v3 doesnt work anymore.
HELP ME OUT TO REMOVE WEEBLY POPUP FROM WEBSITE
REPLY FASTER WITH FOOTER CODE
im having same problem weebly footer is back is there a new code to hide it??
weebly footer code is not working is there going be a new update ?????
I’ve followed the March 2019 update steps, but the footer is still showing up. Any suggestions?
Same with me, followed the steps, and still not working. Perhaps Weebly’s caught on to this site?
Update from remove “powered by weebly”??
Bummer. I tried the updated code for “March 2019” and it doesn’t appear to work. Hoping for an update soon. Thanks for your hard work.
Not working as on 18th march 2019
I believe that this update will have no solution, weebly certainly created a new system that can not be circumvented to remove the advertisement.
Hi there, we have updated the code to hide the banner.
Hi, tried to put the March 2019 code in but it didn’t work. The banner still shows :(
Hi there, we have updated the code to hide the banner.
paste this in the (settings/seo/footer section)
.body {
background-color:white;
font-family:Arial;
font-size:20px;
color:#000000;
}
$(document).ready(function() {
document.getElementsByClassName(“footer-published-ab-powered-by”)[0].remove();
});
Absolutely! Your contribution is highly appreciated!
Unless I did something incorrectly this new code just posted doesn’t seem to work for me.
March 27th update doesn’t work.
Hi Anna, the code actually works just fine. Please make sure you’re doing it right.
I tried the update for March 27th and it does not appear to work. I follow the instructions exactly. I watched the video (although the code on the video is slightly different than the one posted in the blog). Possibly this might not work with every theme?
I was curious if you ever considered changing the
structure of your website? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say.
But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so
people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for
only having 1 or two pictures. Maybe you could space it out better?
I verify that the new code DOESN’T WORK:
.body {
background-color:white;
font-family:Arial;
font-size:20px;
color:#000000;
}
$(document).ready(function() {
document.getElementsByClassName(“footer-published-ab-powered-by”)[0].remove();
});
unfortunately new code not working for me either…
This one works for me in the Settings/SEO/Footer code
document.addEventListener(‘DOMContentLoaded’, function() {
var element = document.getElementById(“weebly-footer-signup-container-v3”);
element.parentNode.removeChild(element);
}, false);
It’s April 16th, 2019, none of the codes work anymore :(
try this new code working on 26/04/2019
.body {
background-color:white;
font-family:Arial;
font-size:20px;
color:#000000;
}
$(document).ready(function() {
document.getElementsByClassName(“footer-published-ab-powered-by”)[0].remove();
});
it wont work
TRY
document.getElementById(“weebly-footer-signup-container-v3”).remove();
TRY
… and dont forget the script-tag!
document.getElementById(“weebly-footer-signup-container-v3”).remove();
Any new solutions as of late May?
Try with below code.
document.addEventListener(‘DOMContentLoaded’, function() {
$(“div”).remove(“div#weebly-footer-signup-container-v3”)
}, false);
This is a question that I will follow. If we can’t back up entire sites on Weebly, I would feel safer with WordPress. Our WordPress site previously got hacked and that’s why I’m trying out Weebly, but without beeing able to make back-up’s I won’t be risking it for long.
have tried all solutions and none seem to be working.
None of the solutions work atm.
Hello,
I have tried with a setTimeOut and worked for a while. Not anymore. Can someone else try it?
document.addEventListener(
‘DOMContentLoaded’, function () {setTimeout(function(){
‘use strict’; document.getElementById(‘weebly-footer-signup-container-v3’).style.visibility=”hidden !important; display: none !important;”;}, 3000)});
Inspecting the code:
if (document.readystate === ‘complete’) {
Weebly.footer.setupContainer(‘cdn2.editmysite.com’, ‘1584644285’);
} else {
document.addEventListener(‘DOMContentLoaded’, function() {
Weebly.footer.setupContainer(‘cdn2.editmysite.com’, ‘1584644285’);
});
}
if (document.readystate === ‘complete’) {document.getElementById(“weebly-footer-signup-container-v3”).remove(); } else {document.addEventListener(‘DOMContentLoaded’, function () {document.getElementById(“weebly-footer-signup-container-v3”).remove(); }); }
First is weebly’s script, second is our script overriding the weebly one.
!! WORKING SOLUTION on date March-2020 !!
if (document.readystate === ‘complete’) { while (document.getElementsByClassName(‘powered-by’)[0]) {document.getElementsByClassName(‘powered-by’)[0].remove(); } } else { document.addEventListener(‘DOMContentLoaded’, function () {while (document.getElementsByClassName(‘powered-by’)[0]) { document.getElementsByClassName(‘powered-by’)[0].remove(); } }); }
Highly appreciated. The solution has been added to the article.
Not working for me…
I have hidden the footer using your code. Now I tried adding a bootstrap footer to my site,but there is a small Grey space at the bottom where the powered by weebly used to be at. I think it’s because the code was for hiding,not for removing. Is there any way to remove this blank space?
Actually I start to be annoyed by weebly. The only thing which makes “rubbish” the free edition is this footer.
And the paid one is not worth it if the only thing which bothers you is the footer, as it is my case and probably most of you.
More thinking of change to a free opensource CMS…
Doesn’t work for me. As stated above, this is the only thing that annoys me about the free Weebly. And paying $12 per month to get rid of it is not worth it for me right now. Why cant it just be a subtle text at the bottom of the website page, would make it a lot cleaner.
the recent code takes the logo out for me, but the code itself is now visible at the bottom of the site! looks terrible. Weebly needs to address this asap otherwise it’s not worth paying for.
As of me posting this, none of the methods work. Perhaps there is another way around it? I hope so.
As of January 21st none of the solutions work anymore. I am following this thread closely. I tried to analyze the html to see what changed and if a new solution can be made. However, I am not too familiar with HTML/CSS/PHP/ whatever dynamic loading method they use now. If anyone wants to work together on this and has web dev experience, let me know.
Awesome code. I have implemented it on my educational sites
Does that mean that Nate saying on january 21st that none of the codes worked was wrong? Which one did you manage to use?
Doesn’t work for me. Is there any more recent ones?
News?
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