How to remove or hide "Powered by blogger" Attribution Gadget from blogger

There is a Attribution gadget that says “Powered by Bloggger” which appear in the blog's footer in blogger. By default, this gadget is Locked, so you cannot remove it. To get rid of this gadget you have to Unlock it first. It's not illegal, don’t worry your blogger blog will not remove by Google.

Now i will tell you how to remove the Attribution gadget from the Blogger Footer. Before removing this gadget you can Backup your Blogger Template, because while editing HTML code, if anything goes wrong or template modified design doesn’t work, you can restore from backed up template.

Steps to remove 'Powered by blogger' by unlocking the Attribution widget

1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard, then go to Template option, and click on the Edit HTML.

2. Now Click to Jump to Widget and select Attribution 1 option.

You can also use the CTRL + F and search for “Attribution” keyword

3. Now look for this line of codes.

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

4. Now replace the locked=’true’ with locked=’false’.

After changes, the code will look like this,

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

5. Don’t change any other value, and click on 'Save Template'.

6. Now go to the layout option, and click on Attribution gadget, and now you can see the remove option. click on remove, and save your settings.

Sometimes “Powered by blogger” appear again after removing it, in some blogger templates.

* For this, you can delete the whole attribution gadget codes. The code will be like this-

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

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

          <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>

      </b:section>

* Select the whole Attribution gadget code as shown below and Delete it.

* After deleting the Attribution code, click on 'Save Template'. Now the Attribution gadget will be removed from your blog. That's it.

If you don't want to delete the Attribution gadget, there is another method to remove 'Powered by Bloggger', i.e. by hiding the Attribution widget by using adding CSS code.

Hide Attribution gadget by adding CSS code

1. Go to Blogger template option, and click on the Edit HTML.

2. By using CTRL+F search for this code -   </head>

3. Now just above </head> tag, add the below CSS code,

<style>#Attribution1{display: none;}</style>

4. Click on Save template. Now when you View your blog, the attribution gadget or 'Powered by Blogger' in footer of your blogspot blog will not appear.