Twenty Twelve: class needed for WordPress credits link

[bigrob8181]

In #22095, r22207, r22214:
Removing rel=generator removed the ability to easily hide the "Powered by" link. Before, you could just use css to hide it and now, you would have to add the footer.php to the child theme or edit the parent theme.

It would be awesome if a class could be added to the link to make this easy.

.site-info a.wordpress_footer_link {
    display:none;
}

<footer id="colophon" role="contentinfo">
        <div class="site-info">
                <?php do_action( 'twentytwelve_credits' ); ?>
                        <a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'http://wordpress.org/', 'twentytwelve' ) ); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Semantic Personal Publishing Platform', 'twentytwelve' ); ?>" class="wordpress_footer_link"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentytwelve' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a>
        </div><!-- .site-info -->
</footer><!-- #colophon -->

[SergeyBiryukov]

Twenty Twelve uses footer[role="contentinfo"] a to set a color for that link:
​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/style.css?rev=22297#L638

Is there any reason not to use the same selector or just .site-info a to hide it in your case?

[bigrob8181]

I use the do_action( 'twentytwelve_credits' ) hook in the child theme. If using [role="contentinfo"] or .site-info a, everything within the scope of those will be hidden, styled, or whatever.

Also this is not just limited to twentytwelve as all theme footers are being modified.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Another option could be .site-info a:last-child, since WordPress link is placed after twentytwelve_credits hook.

[bigrob8181]

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

Another option could be .site-info a:last-child, since WordPress link is placed after twentytwelve_credits hook.

I like it. This will do the trick. Thanks!

[lancewillett]

The last-child technique looks great, closing as wontfix.