Deleting encrypted footer links from themes in WordPress

To delete the encrypted footer links from themes in WordPress
1.From your WordPress admin area, go to ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Editor’. The theme editor will allow you to edit HTML files.
2.In normal cases, you would edit the ‘footer.php’ and delete the , however when dealing with encrypted links, this could cause the whole site to stop functioning. The "footer.php" file has to be replaces completely instead.
3.Click on the ‘index.php’ and go to the bottom of this file. Find the following line:
<?php get_footer(); ?>
And add the following lines above and below this line like this:
<!--FooterStart-->
<?php get_footer(); ?>
<!--FooterEnd-->
These are comment tags. Your site will now ignore everything in between the tags "<!--" and "-->". Click on "Update File" when you are done.
4.Load your site's main index page in your browser. Click on ‘View,’ and ‘View Source.’ The HTML source will appear. Scroll down and locate the ‘FooterStart’ and ‘FooterEnd’ tags that you have just inserted. Now copy the code between these 2 tags .
5.Go back to your WordPress admin window. While you are still in the Theme Editor, go to the ‘footer.php’ file and delete all the code , then you can paste the code you just copied in the ‘footer.pfp’ file.
6.Look for the links. In HTML, the links look like: "<a href="http://linkexample.com">The Anchor text</a>". Now you can delete the links that you want to remove.
7. When you are done click on ‘Update File.’