How to remove “Powered by Shopify”

New to storefront tweaking? Start with our walkthrough on how to customize your Shopify website and the Shopify theme SEO friendly check to make sure branding changes don’t hurt visibility.  

Method 1: Remove Powered by Shopify using Theme Editor

Powered by Shopify links usually appear in the footer section of the website. Most Shopify themes have customizable settings in the Theme Editor to show and hide the Powered by Shopify link. By using Theme Editor, you can easily remove the link. Navigate to Online Store > Themes > Customize and scroll down to the Footer section. Follow these steps to remove it from the theme editor if your theme supports that feature. 

Step 1: Navigate to Online store > Themes > customize

Step 2: Go to the footer section.

Step 3: Search for a field called Enable powered by shopify or similar field and disabled it.

Step 4: Click Save. 

Method 2: Remove Powered by Shopify using Language Editor

This technique works in all the themes even if your store does not support visual settings to change the powered by Shopify text. Navigate to the default theme content section and replace the powered by Shopify text with some other text of your choice like “All right reserved”.  Follow these steps to remove powered by Shopify text using the Language Editor.

Step 1: Navigate to Online store > Themes 

Step 2: Click on the three dots(...) next to your active theme and select the Edit default theme content.

Step 3: In the search bar type powered

Step 4: You will see the field labeled Powered By Shopify.

Step 5:  Replace it with your desired content for example “All rights reserved”.

Step 6: Click Save.

Method 3: Remove Powered by Shopify using Code

If you are comfortable with editing the code, then you can remove the Powered by Shopify text using the Custom code in liquid. Navigate to the footer.liquid file and search for powered_by_link element. Remove that element from the Theme code and save the changes. Follow these steps to remove it using the code.

Step 1: Navigate to Online store > Themes > Edit code

Step 2: Go to the footer.liquid file.

Step 3: Search for a product powered_by_link using CTRL + F for Windows or Command + F for Mac.

Step 4: Remove this line entirely or replace it with your custom text. For example add this instead of powered by shopify link.

  
    <p>© 2025 YourBrand. All rights reserved.</p>
  

Step 5: Click Save.

Method 4: Remove Powered by Shopify using CSS

If you are not comfortable using theme Editor or Theme code then you can use CSS to hide it. It is not the recommended approach but you can hide it using the CSS. First you need to inspect the element and look for the unique identifier like id or class through which you can target that specific element and hide it using CSS. Follow these steps to hide powered by Shopify text using CSS.

Step 1: Navigate to Online Store > Themes > Edit code

Step 2: Go to the base.css or theme.css file depending on the theme.

Step 3: Inspect the website by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + I or F12 and look for the powered by shopify element.

Step 4: Add some unique id or class to this element for target the element through CSS for example class=”powered-by” or id=”powered-by”

Step 5: Add CSS to hide the element.

  
    .powered-by {
      display: none !important;
    }
  

Step 6: Click Save.