Help updating footer.php for cloudstrap theme

[proco2017]

I have an image that is in the footer.php in the themes/cloudstrap directory.

The image is defined without an ALT attribute in the IMG tag and I want to add it.

I cannot find any way in wordpress to add the alt attribute and changing the footer.php does not work either - it just loses the changes.

[ergophobe]

If you downloaded the cloudstrap theme, you're going to blow away changes anytime it updates. So for starters, you should create a child theme and work from there.

[proco2017]

Easier said than done. I created a child theme and put in the child style.css and then the footer.php. When I load the site both files are deleted. I guess there must be some mechanism that checks for child themes and deletes any files it finds in there.

All I want is to do is add: alt="company name"

[proco2017]

ergophobe,

Got it working finally. I found the bulletproof security plugin on the site, I had to exclude the child theme from being monitored (and having the files removed). Once the child theme was excluded I managed to make the change to the footer.php and the alt attribute now displays.

[ergophobe]

Ah, there you go. That would be pretty odd for a theme to blow away child themes!