# Customize the footer in theme Dawn?

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/customize-the-footer-in-theme-dawn/51975>\
**Category:** Using Ghost\
**Created:** [October 26, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/customize-the-footer-in-theme-dawn/51975 "2024-10-26T17:16:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![pmhungcom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@pmhungcom](https://forum.ghost.org/u/pmhungcom)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/customize-the-footer-in-theme-dawn/51975/1 "2024-10-26T17:16:10Z")

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G’Morning Everyone!  
I just installed Ghost with Dawn theme and tried customizing the footer but failed.  
I followed some suggestions to modify files:  
1, \<default.hbs\> in:  
/content/themes/Dawn-main/default.hbs  
/versions/5.97.0/content/themes/casper/default.hbs  
/versions/5.97.0/content/themes/source/default.hbs  
2, footer.hbs in:  
/versions/5.97.0/content/themes/source/partials/components/footer.hbs  
but nothing changed

or Is there availlable instruction or recommendation for me to align the elements, change some texts and links ie. “powered by Ghost, Copy right…”

Many thanks

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/customize-the-footer-in-theme-dawn/51975/2 "2024-10-26T20:31:05Z")

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If the theme you have installed is “Dawn-main”, then I’d have expected that editing /content/themes/Dawn-main/default.hbs would cause visible changes, although of course it depends on what you changed. I’d head back to /content/themes and see what folders are there. All themes (except Source and Casper - they’re weird) live in that folder.

[For anyone wanting to edit Source or Casper, it’s a good idea to make a copy of them into /content/themes, so that they aren’t overwritten when you upgrade. Folks in managed hosting can accomplish this by downloading a copy of the theme, then uploading the downloaded copy (presumably after making changes…)]