Creating website was a technical job a decade back. However, this has been changed in recent years with the introduction of large number of free website builders. Weebly, Wix and Mobirise are some of the most popular websites to create beautiful websites with drag and drop website builder. However, the problem arises when these companies become larger in size and do not want to offer free services any more. In general, they will insert a free footer advertisement and ask users to pay for removing it. We have explained how to remove free footer in Weebly and WordPress sites in our previous articles. In this article, we will explain how to remove footer ad from free Mobirise sites.
Mobirise Free Footer Advertisement
Mobirise is a free website builder app for Windows and Mac. This app works based on Bootstrap framework and allows you to build beautiful HTML websites in minutes. You can download and install the app on your computer and start building websites offline without internet connection. Earlier the app allows you to create free sites without any footer ad. Now, the free sites will show the footer advertisement. The ad will have words like “Make your web page with Mobirise” or “Mobirise simple web maker” and link to the Mobirise website.
Removing the Mobirise Footer Ad
After saving the Mobirise site to your local computer, you can edit the HTML site independent of the app. The footer message will have a content like below when you look at the editor. The highlighted section contains the advertisement link to Mobirise site.
If you remove that advertisement footer section, your site’s layout will become scrambled and unreadable.
How to Remove Free Mobirise Footer Ad?
There are two ways to remove the footer ads from free Mobirise sites.
Purchase Code Editor Extension
The official way to remove the advertisement is to purchase the Code Editor extension.
- Open Mobirise app and click on the hamburger menu showing on the top left corner.
- Go to the “Extensions” section and type “code editor” in the search box.
- Filter the Code Editor extension and click on the “Buy” button that shows you the amount. If you have previously used the extension, you will see an upgrade button with the amount.
- It will take you to the Mobirise website from where you can purchase the extension for $69. Alternatively, you can purchase all in one kit with almost 97% discount.
- After purchasing, you will get a redemption code that you can redeem under “Extensions” section of your Mobirise app.
- After activating the purchase, go to “Account > App Settings” in the app.
- Check under “Code Editor” section and enable “Remove “Mobirise” from HTML” option.
- This will remove the free footer app and all other Mobirise mentions in the source HTML of your site.
Since the code editor extension will cost you $69 while the all in one kit with all themes will cost you $149, we recommend you to purchase the entire kit. The purchase is valid for one year free update and support and you need to renew after a year. Otherwise, the footer message will start appearing again when you open any websites even if you have created them before. However, the old live sites will not be affected unless you open and republish them with the app.
Offer: Get 97% discount of Mobirise Bootstrap site builder.
Remove Free Mobirise Footer Ad with CSS
The second option is to hide the ad section with simple CSS so that it will not appear on the published site.
- Open the source HTML of the site you have saved on your computer.
- Simply add style=”display: none !important;” to the existing inline CSS of the advertisement section.
- It should look like below on the code.
- Save your changes and open the site in a browser.
- You will see the free ad message disappeared now.
Instead of adding inline CSS style, you can also add a CSS class and ID and include the style in the header section. For example, you can add id=”hide-footer” to the advertisement section like below.
After that add the below code just before the </head> section.
<style>
#hide-footer{display: none !important;}
</style>It will look on the page like below:
Save your changes and check the page on the browser to see the advertisement is hidden now. Remember, this CSS will only hide the advertisement section and will not remove completely from your source code. Therefore, you can use this option for personal websites. For professional and client websites, we recommend you to purchase the Code Editor or Mobirise Kit.
Final Words
Most of the companies like Mobirise start with free forever and then show footer advertisement when they grow in size. We really hope this kind of marketing tricks will go off in future and companies focus on offering premium services with good quality. It does not make sense to publish a website online that shows a link to Mobirise. You can use the above CSS trick or purchase the extension/kit. It is also good to consider other premium services WordPress if you plan to launch a bigger websites.
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