[Bug]: Munchies: Footer Credit Coded Incorrectly

[donalirl]

Quick summary

Simple sites with the Munchies theme show the footer credit as "Proudly powered by WordPress" and does not respond to changing this in the footer credit settings.

Atomic sites show "Blog at WordPress.com." Removing the footer credit in the Site Editor does not remove the credit from the live site.

Steps to reproduce

Simple Site

1. Activate the Munchies theme and observe the footer credit on the site
2. Change the footer credit by going to https://wordpress.com/customize/identity/SITE-ADDRESS or Settings > General > Change Footer Credit
3. Observe the footer credit does not update.

Atomic Site

1. Activate the Munchies theme and observe the footer credit on the site
2. Go to Appearance → Editor and see the footer credit is in a paragraph block there.
3. Remove the Footer Credit paragraph block from the footer
4. Click Save
5. Observe the footer credit remains on the site.

What you expected to happen

On Simple, I expected the footer credit to change to my selected credit. On atomic, I expected the footer credit to be removed when removing it from the Site Editor.

Interestingly. for atomic, you can change the footer credit to 'Hide' by going to https://wordpress.com/customize/identity/SITE-ADDRESS or Settings > General > Change Footer Credit. That will work.

What actually happened

Simple: footer credit did not change to my selected option. Atomic: footer credit did not get removed.

Browser

No response

Context

#36825179-hc

Platform (Simple, Atomic, or both?)

Simple, Atomic

Other notes

No response

Reproducibility

Consistent

Severity

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

No response

Workaround details

No response

[annbingle]

Another report here 37268273-hc I gave them a CSS Workaround below. I tested that the code works fine in other pages too.

/* Hides the WPCOM Footer Credit in Munchies | 37268273-hc (AB) */ body > div.wp-site-blocks > div > p > a { display: none; }