How to Remove the Copyright Text at the Bottom of Fluent Forms Notification Emails

If you use the Fluent Forms plugin and have it sending notification emails when a form is submitted, you might notice a copyright blurb at the bottom of the email with the copyright symbol and the name of the site:

© Your Site Name.

This might seem harmless, but I’ve been asked by multiple clients to get rid of this text.

Unfortunately, there isn’t a setting in the admin to change this, but there is a filter hook that you can use to modify or remove this text. Here’s the PHP code to remove the copyright notice:

<?php
// REMOVE FOOTER COPYRIGHT TEXT IN FLUENT FORM NOTIFICATION EMAILS
function remove_fluentform_footer_copyright( $poweredBy, $form, $notification ) {
    return '';
}
add_filter( 'fluentform_email_template_footer_text', 'remove_fluentform_footer_copyright', 10, 3 );

Place this in your child theme’s functions.php file, or install a plugin like Code Snippets or WP Code and install it as a PHP script that runs everywhere.

Note, you might have found other purported solutions to this problem that use the “fluentform_email_template_footer_credit” filter hook. That hook no longer works; it’s been changed to “fluentform_email_template_footer_text”, which is what I have in my code. You can confirm that on the Fluent Forms list of filter hooks.

Remember to save, then test your contact form again. The copyright text should be gone.

Did this work for you? Let me know in the comments! – Brian

Brian Shim

I am a freelance web developer and consultant based in Santa Monica, CA. I’ve been designing websites using WordPress and from scratch using HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript since 2010. I create websites and web applications for businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from California Institute of Technology and a degree in Engineering Management (MSEM) from Stanford University.

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