WordPress – Remove Site Title and Description along with footer texts

A while ago, I removed the Site Title, Site Description from the default WordPress theme TwentyTen header, along with the Footer site info and site generator.  Then I upgraded the wordpress install, and the stuff came back.  Being I intend on using wordpress a lot, I am just going to jot down here what I did to make it so this stops happening every time I upgrade.

go to your theme directory(/var/www/wp-content/themes/ in my case), and create a new directory, something like: twentyten-custom

create a new file in there called style.css and fill it with the following:

/*

Theme Name:     Twenty Ten without Site title, Description, and Footer

Theme URI:      http: //[your-url]

Description:    My customized Twenty Ten Child-theme

Author:         [your name]

Author URI:     http: //[your url]/about

Template:       twentyten

Version:        1.0.0

*/

@import url(“../twentyten/style.css”);

#site-title {

text-indent: -999em;

}

#site-title a {

text-indent: -999em;

}

#site-description {

text-indent: -999em;

}

#header{

padding: 1px 0 0;

}

#site-info {

display:none;

}

#site-generator {

display:none;

}

then from the control panel, select the new child-theme, and reassign the header and background images, and voila! your done.