Purpose

To change the footer text, follow the instructions in Modify Confluence Interface Text. You can specify additional configurations in /confluence/decorators/includes/footer-content.vm

Solution

 If the height of your footer is significantly greater than the default, you may need to add HTML to allow for the extra height of a custom footer.

If you need to revert to a former version, for example to restore the 'Powered By Atlassian Confluence' text, you can refer to the attached footer file.

Editing the version information in the footer
Please note that editing the version information displayed by Confluence is not recommended. If you alter the information it is harder for our support team to help you with any enquiries. Also note that there are other ways to determine the version of Confluence based on the files it exposes publicly and the URLs it generates, so removing the displayed version number is at best security by obscurity. If you still wish to edit this information, open the file /confluence/decorators/includes/footer-content.vmd. In the file there are several 'if' statements, because Confluence displays different footers for different license types. Find the one appropriate for your license and replace $generalUtil.versionNumber with the desired text. Please ensure that your changes do not break the EULA (end-user license agreement) you agreed to when Confluence was installed.

 It's also possible to insert a footer adding a Custom HTML script

• • Go to Confluence Administration
  • Select Custom HTML on the left panel, under the Look and Feel section

  • On the "At end of the body" box, insert the following code:

    <script>
    jQuery('#footer').prepend('<div style="margin:20px;" align="center">Footer text here</div>');
    </script>

Editing the "Report a Bug" link in footer

The below section/line in the footer-content.vm contains details about the text and URL for the "Report a Bug" link :

Original content

<li class="noprint"><a href="$action.getText('url.bug.feature.request')" class="hover-footer-link" rel="nofollow">$action.getText('bug.feature.request')</a></li> 

The values of the variables - url.bug.feature.request(URL) and bug.feature.request(text) are derived from the file  -- externallinks.properties inside the Confluence jar file(com.atlassian.confluence_confluence-x.x.x.jar) placed under $INSTALL_DIR/confluence/WEB-INF/lib.

However, the URL can be modified directly inside the footer-content.vm file as updated below to "https://www.atlassian.com", followed by the restart of the Confluence instance.

Modified content

<li class="noprint"><a href="https://www.atlassian.com" class="hover-footer-link" rel="nofollow">$action.getText('bug.feature.request')</a></li> 

RELATED TOPICS

Modify Confluence Interface Text
Changing the Look and Feel of Confluence